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An Irishman in the Iron Brigade - The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan (Hardcover)
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An Irishman in the Iron Brigade - The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan (Hardcover)
Series: The Irish in the Civil War
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No soldier went off to the Civil War with quicker step than
17-year-old James Patrick Sullivan. A hired man on a farm in Juneau
County, Wisconsin, he was among the first to anwer Lincoln's call
for volunteers in 1861. Sullivan fought in a score of major
battles, was wounded five times, and was the only soldier of his
regiment to enlist on three separate occasions. An Irishman in the
Iron Brigade is a collection of Sullivan's writings about his hard
days in President Lincoln's Army. Using war diaries and letters,
the Irish immigrant composed nearly a dozen revealing accounts
about the battles of his brigage-Brawner Farm, Second Bull Run,
South Mountain, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg as well as the
fighting of 1864. Using his old camp name, "Mickey of Company K,"
Sullivan wrote not so much for family or for history, but to
entertain his comrades of the old Iron Brigade. His
stories-overlooked and forgotten for more than a century- are
delightful accounts of rough-hewn "Western" soldiers in the Eastern
Army of the Potomac. His Gettysburg account, for example, is one of
the best recollections of that epic battle by a soldier in the
ranks. He also left a from-the-ranks view of some of the Union's
major soldiers such as George McClellan, Irvin McDowell, John Pope,
and Ambrose Burnside. An Irishman in the Iron Brigade is in part
the story of the great veterans' movement which shaped the nation's
politics before the turn-of-the-century. Troubled by economic
hardship, advancing age, and old war injuries, Sullivan turned to
old comrades, his memories, and writing, to put the great
experiences of his life in perspective.
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