Americans celebrating Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day can do so by toasting the legendary 69th Infantry Regiment. “The ...

We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish ...

Another forthcoming proposal would seek to erect a memorial in the Capitol rotunda alcove where a bust of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood. Strains of the ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest, center, in a Confederate uniform, joins a caricature of an Irish immigrant, left, and Democratic Party chairman August Belmont in trampling the rights of a Black Union ...

The Irish holiday explained Need a break ... as mothers gathered with Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation. Jarvis' daughter, Anna Jarvis, conceived Mother's Day as a way ...

The Confederate constitution and the declaration ... Bohemian and even the Gaelic languages of Welsh and Irish. Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri and Michigan followed similar practices.

Confederate Gen. Robert E ... ExploreGeorgia cemetery holds hundreds of Irish who fought ‘war to end slavery’ J. David Hacker, the historian who calculated the Civil War death toll estimate ...

John Philip Holland (Philip was the religious name given him) joined the Order of the Irish Christian Brothers ... such as the Confederate semi-submersible Hunley, which sank its much stronger ...

Although my Irish ancestors came over to this country ... Bambrick was taken to Wheeling, then to the Confederate prisoner of war camp in Columbus called Camp Chase. He did not serve long there ...

In his book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ... war was what we would now call the “paleo-libertarian” leader of the New York City bar, Irish-Catholic Charles O’Conor, who ran for ...