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NEVER SEEN BEFORE (MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) BIRNEY, COL. WILLIAM S. Catalogue of the 9th Reg. U.S. Colored Troops, mustered into the Service by Col. William S. Birney. 23 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; bottom right corner nibbled, large "tide-line" across half of the text; presentation "To Miss Mary J. Crawford" on the half-title with numerous contemporary ink notations concerning officers. Np (Philadelphia, 1863?)
rare, no copies located by oclc. During the Civil War, William Birney (1819-1907) organized seven regiments of volunteers, after which he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. While in command of colored troops, he freed the inmates of the slave-prisons in Baltimore, and took part in a number of important engagements. After the battle of Olustee in Florida, he helped recover the state from the Confederates. On March 13, 1865 he was made brevet major general of volunteers "for meritorious service during the war."
