Civil War Citizens by Ural Susannah;

Author:Ural, Susannah;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Christopher Byrne, Vernon Center, Minnesota, to Patrick Byrne, County Monaghan, Ireland, March 31, 1863, Shirley Family Papers, D3531/G/6, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast. I wish to thank Dr. Ruth-Ann Harris for making me aware of Christopher Byrne’s wonderfully detailed letter and for sharing her knowledge of his experiences in the Civil War. Byrne is the focus of a forthcoming article by Harris and Sally Sommers-Smith in Eire-Ireland.

2. Chicago Daily Tribune, April 20, 1861.

3. Harold F. Smith, “Mulligan and the Irish Brigade,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 56 (1963): 164–66.

4. Pilot, January 12, 1861.

5. Pilot, February 2, 1861.

6. New York Irish-American, February 14, 1861.

7. Michael Cavanagh, Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher (Worcester, MA: Messinger Press, 1892), 369.

8. Daniel George MacNamara, The History of the Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June, 1861–June, 1864, ed. Christian G. Samito (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), 5.

9. Ibid., 16.

10. Ibid., 17.

11. Brian C. Pohanka, James McKay Rorty: An Appreciation (New York: Irish Brigade Association, 1993), 20–21.

12. Souvenir Sketch of St. Patrick’s Church Philadelphia, 1842–1892 (Philadelphia: Hardy and Mahony, 1892), 32

13. Monsignor Eugene Murphy, The First One Hundred Years, 1831–1931: The Parish of St. John the Baptist (Philadelphia: Church Printing and Envelope Co., 1932), 179–87.

14. John R. G. Hassard, Life of John Hughes, First Archbishop of New York (New York: Arno Press, 1969), 439, 487, cited in Jay P. Dolan, The Immigrant Church: New York’s Irish and German Catholics, 1815–1865, 2nd ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), 162. For more on the Romanization of the Catholics of Philadelphia in the mid-nineteenth century, see Dale B. Light’s Rome and the Republic: Conflict and Community in Philadelphia Catholicism between the Revolution and the Civil War (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).

15. General Thomas Francis Meagher to General Edwin V. Sumner, July 2, 1862; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), ser. 1, vol. 11, pt. 2, 74–75 (hereafter OR); see also David Power Conyngham, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns, ed. Lawrence Frederick Kohl (New York: Fordham University Press, 1994), 37, 45, 218; Joseph G. Bilby, The Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the Army of the Potomac (Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing, 1998), 45.

16. Anon., Ninth Massachusetts Diary, June 27, 1862, Civil War Times Illustrated, 29, no. 2 (June 1990): 30; and Stephen W. Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), 230.

17. Pilot, July 19, 1862.

18. Bradley M. Gottfried, Stopping Pickett: The History of the Philadelphia Brigade (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1999), 93.

19. Detroit Free Press, May 31, 1862; quoted in the Pilot, July 12, 1862.

20. Smith, “Mulligan and the Irish Brigade,” 173.

21. Craig Lee Kautz, “Fodder for Cannon: Immigrant Perceptions of the Civil War—The Old Northwest” (Ph.D. diss., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1976), 140–41.

22. Quincy Herald, August 4, 1862; quoted in Kautz, “Fodder for Cannon,” 141.

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