The harp and the eagle [electronic resource] : Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Susannah Ural Bruce.

By: Ural, Susannah JContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2006Description: xiii, 309 p. : illSubject(s): United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Irish American soldiers -- History -- 19th century | Irish Americans -- History -- 19th century | Catholics -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Irish AmericanGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/410899162 LOC classification: E540.I6 | B78 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-292) and index.

"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.

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