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ViiIIiitieii11*»ucCaptain Bira was for m.my 3 ears assistant quartermaster *. • :im i 1 a d» e lt;i AH department with offices in the G.A R, rooms of the capitoi. |I have been associated with Cap» for • - lt;1 I h v.never found t none honest and lt;* r - j pscientiuus man than he,” said H. W Hood, t ugtodian of the G, A It. rooms and state patriotic Instructor, todayi iof Memorial hall, Motion 1 aver 1 .! where he in later years presided ovei meetings of the Grand Arms post as it- t'omrmnrier He was « son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bird, eariv Sun Bra*1 #Bird, built the first state capitoi, in 1 us early life Captain Bird was engng- , eel in farming near Sun Brairie, n» ir; Belleville and let k+ Waube-u.Responding to the lt;all of President Abraham Lincoln. Captain Bird joinedt in Ilth \V u di 1 • a-no-iP i * qui 1 -j tnast« ! Serge.1 m ♦ , • _ . - • : ifwas promoted to second lieutenant, company P., 20th Wisconsin, Aug. Ii.D62. On Jan 14. 1*64. he was made j first lieutenant and on July 14. l**u, he was mustered out of servke H • was commissioned captain Aug i, 165. Captain Bird w4s severely wounded in the lrg at Prairie Grove,Ark., Dec. 7. 1862. *W hen the offices of assistant quartermaster general and #W!S,*tant ad* Ic1fIjutunt wa re consolidated in 11*14, j Captain Bird was elected to fill bothpositions He lt;«»nfmuel in this h^rv ■life until 6 when he w 1 for d byfailing eyesight to give up the office. | ' Howev er, he continued to assist In the office until the day prior to h;s fatai illness. Every noon Captain Bird. Xlr. j Rood and S. Y La thru p. lt;apitol gu;d* inch in ttthe f». A R. r% «ms in the i a pi to 1 Tho 1three delighted in relating war-time |1c overlittle room when Comrades Rood and i Luthrop at* tic ir men! alone andword w?j received during luitch that I 1the captain had filed. * j tCaptain Bird had been affiliated with the Madison G. A R. post Since' I Xov. ic Prior to that time he,1ilt; 1Madison post enjoyed a large grow th 1 in membership while Captain Bird Itl^-l^l ■* | 1Although arrangements for the fq~f tneial have not been made n has been ? def^rnnned that Grand Army po lt;♦services be conducted. I 1
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Aug 25, 1922
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