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- GLC#
- GLC02608.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 28, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Birney, David Bell, 1825-1864
- Title
- to Mr. Gross
- Place Written
- Belle Air, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
General Birney transmits his division's battle flag (not included) via Lieutenant Briscoe (possibly J.C. Briscoe). Referring to General Philip Kearny, states "Kearny always had it with him as he dashed along the front & at his Head Quarters." Requests that Gross present the flag to the Union League of Philadelphia. Of the flag, writes "It is a very plain, unsightly piece of bunting, but when Franklin's G. Division saw it advancing up the hill at Fredericksburg and recognized it as my battle flag, a shout of joy went up, and nine hearty cheers welcomed it to the front."
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