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A story of the 116th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Soon after arriving at the front of the War of Rebellion it was attached to General Thomas Meagher's Irish Brigade of the Army of the Poomac. For the next two years the regiment fought alongside Meagher's Irishmen in various campaigns.

When the Civil War erupted, more than 1,000 Irish Americans formed the North Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, the first of the state's ethnic regiments. This book is a history of the regiment, told by Daniel Macnamara, who served as its commissary sergeant and rose to become regimental quartermaster.

An account of life in the army during the American Civil War. Corby describes all aspects of a soldier's life in the Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. The book includes stories of both the tradegy and hardship, and the hope and humour of war.

17-year-old James P. Sullivan was among the first to answer Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861. This is a collection of his writings about his days in President Lincoln's army, including accounts of the battles of Brawner Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

This account of New York's 69th Regiment, the "Irish Brigade", describes how they were engaged in nearly every major action of the eastern theatre of the American Civil War. Their valour is still acknowledged each St Patrick's Day, when they lead the Parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

This volume contains the letters written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is the sixth volume in a series exploring "The Irish in the Civil War".

"Very seldom does one come across so inspiring a volume. . . . It belongs in every Irish-American library. . . . Anyone with an interest in the Civil War and/or the history of the Irish in America should own a copy of this very fine work." -Irish Edition