Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Birney” in chapter 4 of Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox:

... of this morning, describing our first day's fight. I had got as far as the death of General Hays and the wounding of Carroll. This was between five and six o'clock. Hays commanded one brigade of Birney 's division. He was a strong-built, rough sort of man, with red hair, and a tawny, full beard; a braver man never went into action, and the wonder only is that he was not killed before, as he always...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
David Bell Birney 80 56 4 0 0 user votes
David B. Birney 515 0 31 0 0 user votes
Birney 460 0 88 0 0 user votes
William Birney 442 0 16 0 0 user votes
D. B. Birney 425 0 9 0 0 user votes
James G. Birney 181 0 1 0 0 user votes
David D. Birney 88 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. G. Birney 81 0 1 0 0 user votes
James Gillespie Birney 68 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. Birney 30 0 4 0 0 user votes
Fitzhugh Birney 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
G. Birney 26 0 0 0 0 user votes
Gen Birney 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
D. D. Birney 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
William C. Birney 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Lauress J. Birney 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
W. Birney 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
Ellen Birney 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
David Birney 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Dion Birney 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
J. L. Birney 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
W. A. Birney 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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