Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) tea William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Charlotte Turner is left to run the family farm and will lose more than she may be able to bear

Harry Pfanz offers a detailed tactical description of events of the first day

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) tea William Tecumseh Shermanby Damian Shiels (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series Editor) Damian Shielss Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank and file soldiers drawn from across the Unions armed forces. Using a vast and largely untapped collection of letters penned by Irish American combatants to their families during the war, Shiels explains how these enlisted men navigated their