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Caption: General David Birney
Additional Description: Like General Sickles, Birney owed much of his position to political connections. However, he was considered one of the better "political generals" of the war. He would die of an illness contracted while serving around Petersburg in 1864.

(Library of Congress Collection, Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865, Call Number: LC-BH82- 4052 A <P&P>[P&P])
Submitted: October 26, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p41184
File Size: 0.043 Megabytes

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