In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...
As the nation gets ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, members of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, or the Irish Brigade, are making plans to help ...
Ordered to secure a stone wall on Marye’s Heights during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, the Irish Brigade charged up hill under a fusillade of Confederate rifle and ...
On this day, September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had a preliminary version of his Emancipation Proclamation delivered to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This was five days ...
MENANDS, N.Y.MENANDS, N.Y. — Members of the New York Army National Guard will pay tribute to New Yorkers who fought in the Union Army’s Irish Brigade during the Civil War. Soldiers in the 1st ...
ENANDS, N.Y. -- A dozen veterans of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry spent a snowy Sunday morning, March 10 honoring Irish-American Civil War veterans buried at two ...
Gettysburg (WHTM) It’s not the largest monument on the Gettysburg battlefield, but it catches the eye like few others. On Sickles Avenue in the southern part of the Gettysburg National Military Park, ...
On Aug 20, 1861, the 80 Irishmen of F company Phillips Legion (known as the Lochrane Guards), a unit of the Confederate Army, boarded a Macon and Western railway train and rode into history. It was a ...
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