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During the American Civil War, the lads of the 69th Pennsylvania

During the American Civil War, the lads of the 69th Pennsylvania"Irish Volunteers" from Philadelphia fought in every battle with the Army of the Potomac. From 1861 to 1865 the regiment marched under its Irish Green battle flag in the midst of engagements from Glendale to Antietam to Gettysburg to Petersburg. They participated in the entire Peninsular campaign and at the battle of Glendale their bayonet charge to recover captured union artiller...

Today, when we hear or read of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, attention is focused on the countless infantry charges up Marye¿s Height¿s into the artillery and rifles of the Confederate Army. Scenes of The Irish Brigade storming the rebel wall and of Richard Kirkland giving water to wounded men in blue dominate the Fredericksburg story. Yet as Francis O¿Reilly, Fredericksburg Historian and author has stated for many years, th...

Today, when we hear or read of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, attention is focused on the countless infantry charges up Marye¿s Height¿s into the artillery and rifles of the Confederate Army. Scenes of The Irish Brigade storming the rebel wall and of Richard Kirkland giving water to wounded men in blue dominate the Fredericksburg story. Yet as Francis O¿Reilly, Fredericksburg Historian and author has stated for many years, th...

July the third 1863 it seems, will forever be associated with an event known by almost everyone as "Pickett's Charge" . . . the day more than 12, 000 officers and men in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia charged forward at the Union defenses at Gettysburg.Almost since that day onward, the label given to that assault has focused on the commander of less than half of the troops who made the attack-Major General George Pickett. Pickett wh...

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July the third 1863 it seems, will forever be associated with an event known by almost everyone as "Pickett's Charge" . . . the day more than 12, 000 officers and men in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia charged forward at the Union defenses at Gettysburg.Almost since that day onward, the label given to that assault has focused on the commander of less than half of the troops who made the attack-Major General George Pickett. Pickett wh...

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They came from the Irish neighborhoods of Philadelphia. At the bottom of the social strata, they were the laborers, the railroad workers, the canal diggers and the dock workers always "last hired - first fired". In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, several Philadelphia Irish neighborhood militia companies joined together to volunteer their services to the Union army and would eventually become the 69th Pennsylvania "Irish Volunteers". From ...