The green and the gray [electronic resource] : the Irish in the Confederate States of America / David T. Gleeson.
Material type: TextSeries: Civil War AmericaPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages :) illustrationsISBN:- 9781469612508
- 146961250X
- Irish Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Immigrants -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Irish Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Irish American soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Irish American
- Confederate States of America. Army -- History
- 973.7/420899162 23
- E585.I75 G56 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-296) and index.
Introduction: the fighting Irish -- Reluctant secessionists: the Irish, southern politics, and the birth of the Confederacy -- Irish rebels, southern rebels: the Irish join the Confederate Army -- Faugh a ballagh! (clear the way!): the Irish in the Confederate Army -- Hard times: the Irish on the home front -- For God, Erin, and Carolina: Irish Catholics in the Confederacy -- Another "lost cause": the Irish after the Confederacy -- Conclusion: ambiguous Confederates.
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