Full title of this reprint is “LIFE OF DAVID BELL BIRNEY, MAJOR GENERAL UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS” by Oliver Wilson Davis and reprinted by Ron R. Van Sickle Military Books, Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1987.

Hardcover is bound in green cloth with the title in gold on the front cover and spine. Covers are clean and excellent.

Volume meas. approx. 7.00 x 10.00 inches and runs 418 pages with 12 page index.

Binding is excellent. Interior is like new. Page edges have some minor scattered surface dirt.

Birney began the was as lieutenant colonel of the 23^rd Pennsylvania and rose to brigadier general while commanding a brigade in Phil Kearney’s division of the 3^rd Corps. Upon Kearney’s death, he took command of Kearney’s own division in the Army of the Potomac and was promoted to Major General for his leadership at Chancellorsville. He commanded the 3^rd Corps after Sickles was wounded at Gettysburg. This well-written biography in 1867, shortly after Birney’s own death, is an excellent source for study of the Army of the Potomac. [ad] [ph:L]

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