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Start reading Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers on your Kindle in under a minute. A fair amount of the book's ink is spent arguing that, despite their outstanding war record, the CS Irish have been swept under the rug and are just now being recognized. While the publisher claims it's due to the tired old cliche about Northern control of publishing houses, thankfully Mr. Tucker himself does not, attributing it instead largely to a low rate of literacy among surviving Irish vets.

Throughout the course of the Civil War, Irish Confederates made invaluable contributions to all aspects of the war effort.

Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous time in our nation's history. The axiom that the winners of wars write the histories is especially valid in regard to the story of the Irish who fought for the Confederacy from 1861-1865. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Irish Confederates made invaluable contributions to all aspects of the war effort.

Phillip Thomas Tucker. Book Format: Paperback.

Phillip Thomas Tucker, P. A new book, The Irish at Gettysburg, says the real story of the Irish who fought with the Confederate Army is only just starting to be told. Before the most famous attack of the Civil War, Irish Confederates played leading roles in equally determined assaults on the second day at both ends of Major General George Gordon Meade’s lengthy defensive line centered on the expanse of Cemetery Ridge: East Cemetery Hill on the north, where large numbers of Louisiana Irish Rebels charged the heights with the war cry We.

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Irish Confederates were not as numerous as those who fought for the Union; an estimated 150,000 Irish served in the Union Army while . Source: Irish Confederates: The Civil War’s Forgotten Soldiers Phillip Thomas Tucker.

Irish Confederates were not as numerous as those who fought for the Union; an estimated 150,000 Irish served in the Union Army while only 30,000 served in the Confederate Army. Of the 425 Confederate generals, six were Irish. There were more Irish among the colonels, and they served in various positions, but many more Irish served in lower ranks - some in the Confederate Navy. com/photos/[email protected]/2678953539/. Irish Union soldiers also played an important role in this crucial three-day battle. is an award-winning author of more than 40 nonfiction books. He is known as today’s leading New Look historian in America for his many ground-breaking books in multiple fields of history. The Pennsylvania Irishmen of the Philadelphia Brigade repulsed the Virginians of Pickett’s Charge at Cemetery Ridge. Tragically, large numbers of Ireland-born soldiers and the descendants of Irish immigrants were among the more than half of the 12,500 Rebel soldiers who fell during Pickett’s Charge. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he has earned three degrees in American history, including a P. From St. Louis University in 1990. For over two decades, Dr. Tucker served as a military historian for the . He currently lives in the vicinity of Washington, DC.