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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 24 24 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 10 10 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 6 6 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 5 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 4 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 4 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 2 2 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
marching into the fight, I met Fitzhugh. Ah, brother will, he cried, we have the Rebels this time! What makes you think so? said I, it looks the other way to me. They say so at Headquarters, he answered, and I know they are in high spirits about it. They say we shall bag at least ten thousand. In a few hours the Rebels had bagged many of us, myself among the number. Colonel David B. Birney having become Brigadier-General, Lieutenant Birney wrote, I hope soon to be brother's Aid. August 1, 1862, he was commissioned as Assistant Adjutant-General of the second brigade, of Kearney's division, with the rank of Captain. He added to the duties of this position those of Aid in the field. His delivery of orders under fire was clear, concise, and correct. In the second battle of Bull Run, Captain Birney's collarbone was broken by the falling of his horse. This was the only hurt he received in two years and a half of dangerous service, during which he participated in more than twen