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The harp and the eagle Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 /

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Auteur principal: Ural, Susannah J.
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : New York University Press, c2006.
Sujets:
United States. > Army > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Irish American soldiers > History > 19th century.
Irish Americans > History > 19th century.
Catholics > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Irish American.
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Table des matières:
  • "An Irishman will not get to live in this country" : the Irish in America, 1700-1860
  • "Remember your country and keep up its credit" : volunteering for Ireland and America
  • "We are slaughtered like sheep, and no result but defeat" : the decline of Irish-American support for the war in 1862
  • "The Irish spirit for the war is dead! absolutely dead!" : battles raging in the field and at home, 1862-1863
  • "Hordes of Celts and rebel sympathizers" : the decline and consequence of Irish-American support for the war
  • "Father was a soldier of the Union" : Irish veterans and the creation of an Irish-American identity.

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