The harp and the eagle Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 /
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2006.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- "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.