Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) gadsden Joe Mieczkowski studies the events

Joe Mieczkowski studies the events after the Battle of Gettysburg

Few have achieved his historical importance

test the limits of Federal endurance

from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington

and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) gadsden Joe Mieczkowski studies the eventsby 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