Gettysburg (WHTM) It’s not the largest monument on the Gettysburg battlefield, but it catches the eye like few others. On Sickles Avenue in the southern part of the Gettysburg National Military Park, ...
The ironic tale of a Confederate Irish soldier who fought at Gettysburg and is the sculptor of the Irish Brigade Monument to New York regiments close to the American Civil War battlefield. It is a ...
As the nation gets ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, members of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, or the Irish Brigade, are making plans to help ...
Dr. Ryan Keating of California State University will discuss the Irish Brigade during the US Civil War in a Zoom lecutre hosted by the American Irish Historical Society on Thursday, October 17. Dr.
"The fearful volley . . . took an appalling toll. . . . The regiment, for a moment, was unable to return fire. But it did not take long to rally. It soon responded with a rage and fury that only the ...
Regarding reparations for slavery, New York state gave at the office. Or, more precisely, on the battlefields of the most lethal war in American history — fought fundamentally, and successfully, to ...