Folks interested in this subject may want to check out this link:
http://irishculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa052701a.htm and
http://irishculture.about.com/cs/reenactment/index.htm
These have to do with Irish units on both sides during the Civil War.
On a related note, I once heard a writer state at a lecture that the Irish units
of the Confederacy were mostly raised with Protestant recruits, while those of
the Union were mostly Catholic. Any ideas on the validity of this argument?
John Maass
UNC-Greensboro
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