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Recruiting the Irish Brigade, Creating the Irish American

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Defeat at Bull Run had left the Union war plan in tatters. Lincoln had assumed that the Confederate rebellion could be suppressed…

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Thomas Meagher: The Irish Rebel Joins the Union Army

Originally published on May 17, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Thomas Francis Meagher was to found the Irish Brigade, one…

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Thomas Meagher: The Man Who Created the Irish Brigade

Originally published May 10, 2012 in the Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In 1862, the Irish Brigade would become one of the most famous…

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