Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel David B. Birney” in chapter 32 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies:
...t up his books, recommending some active out-of-door employment.
November 28, he wrote from Camp Graham, near Washington: I am now First Lieutenant, Company A, Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel David B. Birney .
He was soon detached from the regiment for signal duty.
On the battle-field, he wrote, our position is dangerous.
But the greater the danger, the better the service.
He acted on the signal...
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