Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers by Phillip Thomas Tucker
By Phillip Thomas Tucker
modern Civil conflict scholarship has dropped at mild the real roles sure ethnic teams performed in the course of that tumultuous time in our nation's historical past. The axiom that the winners of wars write the histories is principally legitimate in regard to the tale of the Irish who fought for the Confederacy from 1861–1865. through the process the Civil conflict, Irish Confederates made helpful contributions to all points of the struggle attempt. but, the Irish have mostly been the forgotten squaddies of the South. In Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers, Tucker illuminates those neglected participants.
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