The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments / xi Introduction: The Fighting Irish / 1 Chapter 1 Reluctant Secessionists The Irish, Southern Politics, and the Birth of the Confederacy / 10 Chapter 2 Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels The Irish Join the Confederate Army / 41 Chapter 3 Faugh a Ballagh! (Clear the Way!): The Irish in the Confederate Army / 73 Chapter 4 Hard Times The Irish on the Home Front / 112 Chapter 5 For God, Erin, and Carolina Irish Catholics in the Confederacy / 150 Chapter 6 Another “Lost Cause” The Irish after the Confederacy / 187 Conclusion: Ambiguous Confederates / 221 Appendix: Irish Surnames in Mobile, Alabama, Units / 225 Notes / 229 Selected Bibliography / 267 Index / 297 This page intentionally left blank Tables and Illustrations tables 1. Irish in the South, 1860 / 8 2. Vote for Stephen Douglas in the 1860 Presidential Election in Selected Southern Cities / 31 3. 1860 Presidential Election in New Orleans / 33 4. Irish Units in the Confederate Army / 47 5. Occupational Status of Irish Confederate Soldiers in Selected Companies / 65 6. Irish Confederate Casualty and Desertion Rates in Selected Units / 82 7. Company Casualty and Desertion Analysis of the 6th Louisiana Infantry / 88 illustrations John Mitchel / 22 Montgomery Guards Flag / 51 John O. Farrell / 71 Richard (Dick) Dowling / 99 Bishop Patrick N. Lynch / 152 Irish Volunteer Memorial, Charleston, South Carolina / 204 Irish Volunteer Memorial Plate / 205 James K. McCann / 214 Dick Dowling/Davis Guards Memorial, Houston, Texas / 217 This page intentionally left blank ...