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Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment In The Civil War
On battlefields from Virginia to Louisiana, the soldiers of Connecticut’s Ninth Regiment Volunteer Infantry marched into combat against Confederate forces under a regimental flag unlike any other from the state: a blue banner emblazoned with a golden harp on a field of emerald green dotted with shamrocks and bearing the motto “Erin Go Bragh.”
The symbols and the slogan proclaimed the unit as Connecticut’s “Irish Regiment,” composed of 1,200 first- and second-generation Irish for whom fighting to preserve the Union was a demonstration of their loyalty to an adopted land that had more often than not treated them as second-class citizens.
- See more at: http://connecticuthistory.org/fighting-sons-of-erin-connecticuts-irish-regiment-in-the-civil-war/#sthash.I5syxSlJ.dpuf
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A party of the 50th New York Engineers builds a road on the south bank of the North Anna River, near Jericho Mills, Virginia, on May 24, 1864.
Organized at Washington, D. C., from 50th New York Infantry October 22, 1861. Attached to Woodbury’s Brigade, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862, and to Engineer Brigade, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 19 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 206 Enlisted men by disease. Total 227.
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Quarter Plate Tintype Of A Union Soldier On His Horse In Camp
Modern label on verso is inked Dewitt Stafford? though there is no explanation for the identification. Possibly Dewitt C. Stafford who served in Co. B, 64th Ohio Infantry, from Oct. 29, 1861, to Dec. 3, 1865.
During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio provided the United States government with three types of military units: artillery units, cavalry units, and infantry units. Ohio supplied the federal government with more than 260 regiments of men, not counting several companies that formed the basis of regiments in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. A total of 310,654 Ohioans served in the Union army for varying lengths of time.
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“Richmond, Va. Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot,” c. 1865
War brought destruction across the South. Governmental and private buildings, communication systems, the economy, and transportation infrastructure were all debilitated.
Victory did not translate into a quick economic boom for the United States. The North would not regain its prewar pace of industrial and commodity output until the 1870s. The war did prove beneficial to northern farmers, who responded to wartime labor shortages with greater use of mechanical reapers, which boosted yields.
By 1870 all the former Confederate states had been readmitted to the Union, and nearly all were controlled by the Republican Party. Three groups made up Southern Republicanism. Carpetbaggers, or recent arrivals from the North, were former Union soldiers, teachers, Freedmen’s Bureau agents, and businessmen. The second large group,scalawags, or native-born white Republicans, included some businessmen and planters, but most were non slaveholding small farmers from the Southern up-country. Loyal to the Union during the Civil War, they saw the Republican Party as a means of keeping Confederates from regaining power in the South.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconstruction-United-States-history
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Hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, Medal of Honor recipient for his defense of Little Round Top, 32nd Governor of Maine, and 6th President of Bowdoin College, brevet Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, photographed by Matthew Brady, 1865. (Colorized) [4914 × 6429] #HistoryPorn https://ift.tt/2rbiJgF
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Captain Henry “Harry” B. Doolittle of Co. C, 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, and Co. K, 20th Iowa Infantry Regiment, who was wounded at Fort Donelson, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi, holding 2nd Iowa Infantry regimental flag and standing on first national flag of the Confederacy; Doolittle served as Color Guard in 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment (x)
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