TY - BOOK AU - Ural,Susannah J. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The harp and the eagle: Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 AV - E540.I6 B78 2006 U1 - 973.7/410899162 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - United States KW - Army KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Irish American soldiers KW - 19th century KW - Irish Americans KW - Catholics KW - Participation, Irish American KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865999 ER -