Fighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico

Essays

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6480-4 (ISBN)

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Mid-nineteenth century America erupted with energy and violence with a mass of Irish emigrants enthusiastically joining in the affrays of the US invasion of Mexico and the great civil war. This collection of articles scans the variety of Irish involvement in American military life from the conquest of Mexico in the 1840s to the catastrophic events of civil war which followed in due course.

As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants joined the fray in large numbers, on both sides. They sometimes were disruptive elements. In Mexico, a body of Irish artillerymen defected to the other side. During the Civil War, Patrick Cleburne stirred controversy in the Confederacy when he proposed enlisting slaves in exchange for their freedom. The New York draft riots, a violent insurrection by a predominantly Irish mob, raged for three days before Federal troops restored order. Despite turmoil and contention, the Irish soldiers who fought in the Union army contributed significantly to the preservation of the United States. This collection of essays examines the involvement of Irish men and women in America's conflicts from 1840 to 1865.

Arthur H. Mitchell is a distinguished professor of history at the Salkehatchie Campus of the University of South Carolina. He lives in Allendale, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Mexican

The Irish Soldiers of Mexico (Michael F. Hogan)

Irish Americans and the War with Mexico (Arthur H. Mitchell)

Part II: American Civil

The New York Irish Brigade Recruits and Their Families

in the Era of the Civil War (Marion Truslow)

Philadelphia Irish During the Civil War (Phillip G. Pattee)

Preserving the Union: Shaping a New Image of Chicago’s Irish Catholics and the Civil War (Lawrence J. McCaffrey)

The Boston Irish and the Civil War (Arthur H. Mitchell)

What Made the “Fighting Irish” Fight (D.R. O’Connor Lysaght)114

Irish Women in the Civil War (Eileen M. McMahon)

Judge Charles Daly and the New York Irish in the Era

of the Civil War (Aidan O’Hara)

Irish and African Americans in the Civil War Era (Andre Fleche)

Christopher Byrne, Civil War Soldier, Writes Home (Ruth-Ann Harris)

Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston and the Confederacy

David Heisser

John Mitchel and the Confederacy (Kelly O’Grady)

Patrick Cleburne, Irish Confederate General (Mauriel P. Joslyn)

Dick Dowling, Texas Irishman (Ann Caraway Ivins)

Mahan and Son: Master Purveyors of U.S. Policy for Over

a Century (Desmond Travers)

Twice in the Gap of Danger (Frank Boyle)

The American Civil War, the Fenians and Ireland (Owen McGee)

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-6480-3 / 1476664803
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6480-4 / 9781476664804
Zustand	Neuware