Chicago's Irish Legion : the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War

Chicago's Irish Legion : the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War /

Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago's Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago's 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's XV Army Corps. Swan's sweeping history of this singular regiment and it...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Swan, James B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Illinois Infantry Regiment, 90th (1862-1865)
Irish American soldiers > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Irish American.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The raising of the Irish Legion
  • Attention from two generals
  • Life on one cracker a day
  • The father of waters unvexed
  • The march to Chattanooga
  • The Battle of Chattanooga
  • The winter of their discontent
  • The Atlanta Campaign: approach to Atlanta
  • The Atlanta Campaign: battles around Atlanta
  • Hazen's summer camp and a stern chase
  • An armed picnic
  • The handsomest thing I have seen in this war
  • Rocking the cradle of secession
  • Hail Columbia, happy land
  • Leaving the cradle
  • Touring tarheel country
  • Like the lords of the world
  • Epilogue.

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