Isaac Hite BIRD (1852-1892)

Isaac Hite BIRD (1852-1892)

4^th cousin once removed of Jeff Augustus “Gus” BIRD (1893-1954)

11^th cousin 2 times removed of Kirk Louis LINTO (1914-1987)

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Isaac Hite BIRD (1852-1892)

4^th cousin once removed of Jeff Augustus “Gus” BIRD (1893-1954)

Terry Louis Linton ©2011

Linton Research Fund Inc., Publication © 2011

LINTON & BIRD Chronicles, Volume VIII, Issue 1 Spring © 2013, ISSN 1941-3521

Isaac Hite BIRD (1852-1892) was the 4^th cousin once removed of Jeff Augustus “Gus” BIRD (1893-1954).  Isaac was the 3^rd great-grand son of Andrew BIRD (1673–1723) & Mary Katrun COVERT-COOVERS-Kuver-Koevers (1689–1723) of Oyster Bay, Nassau Colony, Long Island, New York, the parents of Ironmaster William BIRD (1706-1761) Esquire, the founder of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. 

Isaac Hite BIRD (1852-1892) he went by is middle name, was the son of Judge Mark BIRD Sr., (1810-1883) & Sarah Clark Maury HITE (1814-?) of Bird's Nest, Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia (Mount Jackson is now located in Shenandoah County, but the Bird family home sites of Craney Island Plantation and Bird’s Nest Plantation, Bird Iron Works, Bird Mills are located in Rockingham County, Virginia, under the shadow of Bird Knob in the Massanutten Mountains. All of this land was originally in Augusta County, Virginia.

Hite married Lelia Bird ZIRKLE (1857–1894) on November 24, 1881 at Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia. Lelia was the daughter of Jacob W. ZIRKLE (1821–1857) & Emily Catherine RICE (1830–1910).

Hite & Lelia had six known children:

Katie BIRD (1876–?); Catherine C. BIRD (1882–?); Warren Hite BIRD (1884–1911); Lelia M. BIRD (1885–1894); Gertrude S. BIRD (1887–1888); Maury T. BIRD (1890–1891)

Civil War

Hite served as a courier in the 7^th Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade, from Shenandoah County, Virginia, Confederate States of America as a private. Hite was in Company C, the Shenandoah Rangers, under the command of General Thomas L. Rosser with commanders Colonel Angus McDonald and later Colonel Turner Ashby. The 7^th saw engagement in battle in the Jackson's Valley Campaign, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Brandy Station, Gettysburg Campaign, Valley Campaigns of 1864, Battle of Five Forks.

The 7^th Virginia Cavalry also known as Ashby's Cavalry was a Confederate cavalry regiment raised in the spring of 1861, by Colonel Angus William McDonald. The regiment was composed primarily of men from the counties of the Shenandoah Valley as well as from the counties of Fauquier and Loudoun. Two companies contained men from the border counties of Maryland.

The regiment was initially assigned to guarding the upper Potomac and was attached to the command of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the Valley. In the spring of 1862 the regiment took part in Jackson's Valley Campaign, where the exploits of the unit and its commander, Turner Ashby, became famous on both sides of the war. Near the conclusion of the campaign, Ashby was mortally wounded and Colonel Richard Henry Dulany took command of the regiment, which had swelled to 29 companies. The regiment was reorganized at the end of the campaign, with the original 10 companies remaining and the excess 19 forming the 12th Regiment and 17th Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. Together with these two regiments, the 7^th would become the nucleus of the famed Laurel Brigade.

As part of the brigade, the 7^th saw major action during the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863 and was at the famed cavalry Battle of Brandy Station that same year. They took part in Jubal A. Early's ill-fated Valley Campaigns of 1864 and were at Appomattox Courthouse, though much of the unit escaped through federal lines and returned home to disband rather than taking parole with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Companies

A – Fauquier Mountain Rangers (Fauquier County)

B - (1st) Howard Dragoons (Howard County, Maryland)

     (2nd) Letcher Brock's Gap Rifles (Rockingham County)

C – Shenandoah Rangers (Shenandoah County)

D – Jordan's Company (Page County)

E – Bowen's Mounted Rangers (Warren County)

F – Hampshire Rifleman (Hampshire County)

G – Mason Rangers (Maryland and Loudoun County)

H - (1st) Brock's Gap Sharpshooters (Rockingham County)

      (2nd) Shoup's Company (Rockingham County)

I – Shand's Company (Rockingham County)

K – Miller's Company (Shenandoah County)

Source:

McDonald, William N. A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md. 2002.

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