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The harp and the eagle : Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865

Title: The harp and the eagle : Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Susannah Ural Bruce.
Author: Ural, Susannah J.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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xiii, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-292) and index.

Contents

1. "An Irishman will not get to live in this country" : the Irish in America, 1700-1860 -- 2. "Remember your country and keep up its credit" : volunteering for Ireland and America -- 3. "We are slaughtered like sheep, and no result but defeat" : the decline of Irish-American support for the war in 1862 -- 4. "The Irish spirit for the war is dead! absolutely dead!" : battles raging in the field and at home, 1862-1863 -- 5. "Hordes of Celts and rebel sympathizers" : the decline and consequence of Irish-American support for the war -- 6. "Father was a soldier of the union" : Irish veterans and the creation of an Irish-American identity.

ISBN

0814799396 (cloth : alk. paper)
081479940X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814799390
9780814799406

LCCN

2006016125

OCLC

ocm69992214
69992214
SCSB-5295443

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Columbia University Libraries