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The Green and the Gray - The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Paperback)
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The Green and the Gray - The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection
to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing
question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of
the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view
of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in
the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy,
their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat
for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the
rise of Lost Cause ideology. Focusing on the experience of Irish
southerners in the years leading up to and following the Civil War,
as well as on the Irish in the Confederate army and on the southern
home front, Gleeson argues that the conflict and its aftermath were
crucial to the integration of Irish Americans into the South.
Throughout the book, Gleeson draws comparisons to the Irish on the
Union side and to southern natives, expanding his analysis to
engage the growing literature on Irish and American identity in the
nineteenth-century United States.
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