Selasa, 10 April 2018

ACW Book Review: Irish-American Units

Irish-American Units in the Civil War by Thomas G. Rodgers, Osprey Publishing, 2008, $17.95 The Irish—both Protestant and Catholic, from poor laborers to established upper-middle class— were the largest wave of immigrants to settle in the United States before 1861, and when the Civil War broke out, they dutifully formed militia units in cities and …

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