In going thru family letters looking for info on E. B. Rembert (see earlier post), I came across a package of letters I had not seen before regarding my grandmother's family. Most were just sharing family news, etc, however I came across the name of my ggg uncle George Bird, brother of my gg grandmother Mary Bird Hughston.

First was where a family member had copied from the Carrolton Volunteer a list of "killed and wounded from Co. K of the Carroll Rifles at the battle before Richmond on the 27th" (can't tell the month; I believe it is in 1862). Killed where D. McDonald and A.M. Moore. Wounded: Capt. P. A. Poeples (if I read it correctly)in the shoulder & side, 2nd Lt, Hemmingway in the shoulder, J.A. Hoover, Wm. Penneybacker, J. S. Hoover, Wm. Smith, Newton McMach (?), Tandy Oury, Jas. H. Young, J.H. Gillespie, and others including Stevens, Julien, Cothran, Pittman, Lee, Standley, Davis, Arnold, Clark, Mayfield, Arnold, Barron, Caldwell and Williams. It mentions 1st Lt. Standley had been wounded at Seven Pines and the Company is now under 3rd Lt. Bird (my ggg uncle),who had only 26 men fit for duty after the battle of the 27th. It goes on to mention that "Lt. Hemmingway took off the field 30 prisoners arrested in the morning and Lt. Bird took off 20 more, making 50 prisoners arrested by the gallant company."

The second reference to George Bird was in a May 30th, 1926 letter to my grandmother (Grace Hughston Rea) from her aunt when listing family menbers who fought for the South, apparently for her UDC application. Among others it says "and your Uncle George Bird was a Lt. Col. when he was killed at Gettysburg." I check CWSS with no luck. Any help in getting more info on George Bird and The Carroll Rifles, will be appreciated. Thanks, Edwin Rea