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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823295326
035 _a(DE-B1597)575389
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSamito, Christian
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCommanding Boston's Irish Ninth :
_bThe Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. /
_cChristian Samito.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aThe Irish in the Civil War
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tSeries Editor's Preface --
_tPreface --
_tPrologue: The Drums of War --
_t1861: " ... a cause bright and grand as the Sun." --
_t1862: "We are now engaged in war. The holidays are over." --
_t1863: " ... the pain of separation from you draws heavily upon the heart-strings." --
_t1864: "God gave me an opportunity ... to shed my blood for our beloved Republic." --
_tEpilogue: The Good Knight of Boston --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aChristian Samito writes in his introduction: "In reading Guiney’s words, one can have a fuller appreciation of what motivated civilians to volunteer to fight a war and of the privations they suffered in service to their country." These are the collected Civil War letters of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant from Country Tipperary who relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out, Guiney volunteered to defend the Union and, quickly rose from First Lieutenant to Colonel, to command the ninth Massachusetts regiment. A fervent supporter of Lincoln and passionately opposed to slavery, Guiney felt that, in his service to his new country, he was doing his part to gain freedom for the slaves. Being politically outspoken, Guiney was often criticized for his views by other Irish-Americans. His letters reveal not only the experiences and thoughts of an Irish Catholic soldier, but also the hidden tensions within his immigrant community. His views and observations not only illuminate his personal independence of thought, but also the political landscape which he tried to improve.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295326
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295326
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