Chicago S Irish Legion

Author : James B. Swan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0809328909

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Chicago's Irish Legion by James B. Swan Pdf

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 its pivotal role in the Western Theater of the Civil War draws heavily from primary documents and first-person observations, giving readers an intimate glimpse into the trials and triumphs of ethnic soldiers during one of the most destructive wars in American history. At the onset of the bitter conflict between the North and the South, Irish immigrants faced a wall of distrust and discrimination in the United States. Many Americans were deeply suspicious of Irish religion and politics, while others openly doubted the dedication of the Irish to the Union cause. Responding to these criticisms with a firm show of patriotism, the Catholic clergy and Irish politicians in northern Illinois—along with the Chicago press and community—joined forces to recruit the Irish Legion. Composed mainly of foreign-born recruits, the Legion rapidly dispelled any rumors of disloyalty with its heroic endeavors for the Union. The volunteers proved to be instrumental in various battles and sieges, as well as the marches to the sea and through the Carolinas, suffering severe casualties and providing indispensable support for the Union. Swan meticulously traces the remarkable journey of these unique soldiers from their regiment’s inception and first military engagement in 1862 to their disbandment and participation in the Grand Review of General Sherman’s army in 1865. Enhancing the volume are firsthand accounts from the soldiers who endured the misery of frigid winters and brutal environments, struggling against the ravages of disease and hunger as they marched more than twenty-six hundred miles over the course of the war. Also revealed are personal insights into some of the war’s most harrowing events, including the battle at Chattanooga and Sherman’s famous campaign for Atlanta. In addition, Swan exposes the racial issues that affected the soldiers of the 90th Illinois, including their reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation and the formations of the first African American fighting units. Swan rounds out the volume with stories of survivors’ lives after the war, adding an even deeper personal dimension to this absorbing chronicle.

Author : Charles Ffrench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54271533

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Biographical History of the American Irish in Chicago by Charles Ffrench Pdf

Author : John O'Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UVA:X001130832

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Irish Pedigrees by John O'Hart Pdf

Author : Damian Shiels
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750980876

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Forgotten Irish by Damian Shiels Pdf

On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialised cities of the North; New York alone was home to more than 200,000 Irish, one in four of the total population. As a result, thousands of Irish emigrants fought for the Union between 1861 and 1865. The research for this book has its origins in the widows and dependent pension records of that conflict, which often included not only letters and private correspondence between family members, but unparalleled accounts of their lives in both Ireland and America. The treasure trove of material made available comes, however, at a cost. In every instance, the file only exists due to the death of a soldier or sailor. From that as its starting point, coloured by sadness, the author has crafted the stories of thirty-five Irish families whose lives were emblematic of the nature of the Irish nineteenth-century emigrant experience.

Author : John F. Hogan & Judy E. Brady
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781467118903

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Great Chicago Beer Riot, The: How Lager Struck a Blow for Liberty by John F. Hogan & Judy E. Brady Pdf

In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move seemed a deliberate provocation from Boone's stridently anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party. Beer formed the centerpiece of German Sunday gatherings, and robbing them of it on their only day off was a slap in the face. On April 21, 1855, an armed mob poured across the Clark Street Bridge and advanced on city hall. The Chicago Lager Riot resulted in at least one death, nineteen injuries and sixty arrests. It also led to the creation of a modern police department and the political alliances that helped put Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Authors Judy E. Brady and John F. Hogan explore the riot and its aftermath, from pint glass to bully pulpit.

Author : Mícheál Ó hAodha,Máirtín Ó Catháin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739173831

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Irish Migrants in New Communities by Mícheál Ó hAodha,Máirtín Ó Catháin Pdf

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history themes of the first book and concentrates more on issues surrounding the adaptation of migrants to new or host environments and cultures. These new places often have a jarring effect, as well as a welcoming air, and the Irish bring their own interpretations, hostilities, and suspicions, all of which are explored in a fascinating and original number of new perspectives.

Author : John G. Gallaher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029897421

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Napoleon's Irish Legion by John G. Gallaher Pdf

Drawing heavily on the original documents of the Archives de la guerre, John G. Gallaher has written the first complete account of the storied Irish Legion, which joined with Napoleon to fight England. Following the failed Rebellion of 1798, hundreds of Irishmen fled to the Continent to avoid imprisonment or execution. As part of his planned campaign against England and Ireland in 1803, Napoleon authorized the creation of an Irish Legion to invade Ireland in order to tie down British forces that could otherwise have been used against the main French invasion of England. The promise of returning to Ireland with the French army at their backs brought many recruits to the Legion. The Irish emigrants who enlisted in this special unit of the French army were Irish nationalists who intended to liberate Ireland and create an Irish republic. When the anticipated expedition to Ireland never took place, some of the Irishmen quit the army though the great majority of them remained to fight for Napoleon. Battalions of the Legion encountered the British at Flushing in 1809, fought Wellington in Portugal in 1810-11, and served with distinction at the Battle of Bautzen and in Silesia, where after heavy losses in lesser engagements with the enemy, the Legion was finally destroyed on the banks of the Bober River in 1813. The Legion was reorganized in the winter of 1813-14, but with a dwindling number of Irishmen. With the passage of time the Irish became Bonapartists, and following the Second Restoration in 1815, the surviving remnants of the Irish Legion were disbanded. Until the end, the men of the Legion did not lose their love for Ireland nor their hope that one day they would return to their native land as part of a French military expedition. The Irish veterans of the Napoleonic wars were retired at half pay and most settled in France. They had become French soldiers of the Napoleonic Empire.

Author : David L. Keller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625854445

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The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller Pdf

If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago. More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down in 1865. Today, the history of the camp ranges from unknown to deeply misunderstood. David Keller offers a modern perspective of Camp Douglas and a key piece of scholarship in reckoning with the legacy of other military prisons.

Author : Martin W. Öfele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313027680

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True Sons of the Republic by Martin W. Öfele Pdf

Up to 500,000 Union soldiers, or one fourth of the Union army, had been born in Europe. These immigrants had left their home countries for a multitude of reasons, mostly economic and political. In the United States, they envisioned a country of freedom that would allow them to pursue their goals of acquiring wealth and participating in politics. Soon immersed in the great debate over the expansion of slavery, many immigrants found themselves forced to take sides and eventually rallied around the Union flag. Ethnic Americans joined the northern army out of the same motivations as their native-born comrades, with one notable difference. By defending the Union, immigrant volunteers hoped to tear down nativist obstruction against their assimilation into society and prove their worth as full citizens. Declaring their unconditional loyalty, several groups entered into veritable competitions to raise separate regiments that would defend not only the Union but ethnic and national pride. Through their high visibility within the army, those units became synonymous with the ethnic war effort. The conduct of noticeable organizations such as the Irish Brigade or the partly German Eleventh Army Corps shaped public notions of immigrant participation in the war for decades to come, notwithstanding the fact that the large majority of foreign-born soldiers served in mixed and predominantly native American regiments. These new Americans contributed substantially to Union victory.

Author : Richard C Lindberg
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809337811

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Tales of Forgotten Chicago by Richard C Lindberg Pdf

Hidden gems from Chicago’s past Tales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Richard C. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past. Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s. Also included are tales of industry and invention, such as America’s first automobile race, the haunting of a wealthy Gilded Age manufacturer’s mansion, and the identity of the telephone’s rightful inventor. Chapters on the history of early city landmarks spotlight the fight to save Lakefront Park and how “Lucky” Charlie Weeghman’s north side baseball park became Wrigley Field. Other chapters explore civic, cultural, and political happenings: the great Railroad Fairs of 1948 and 1949; Richard J. Daley’s revival of the St. Patrick’s Day parade; political disrupter Lar “America First” Daly; and the founding of the Special Olympics in Chicago by Anne Burke and others. Finally, some are just wonderful tales, such asa touching story about the sinking of Chicago's beloved Christmas tree ship. Engrossing and imaginative, this collection opens new windows into the past of the Windy City.

Author : Arthur H. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476664804

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Fighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico by Arthur H. Mitchell Pdf

As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants joined the fray in large numbers, on both sides. They sometimes were disruptive elements. In Mexico, a body of Irish artillerymen defected to the other side. During the Civil War, Patrick Cleburne stirred controversy in the Confederacy when he proposed enlisting slaves in exchange for their freedom. The New York draft riots, a violent insurrection by a predominantly Irish mob, raged for three days before Federal troops restored order. Despite turmoil and contention, the Irish soldiers who fought in the Union army contributed significantly to the preservation of the United States. This collection of essays examines the involvement of Irish men and women in America's conflicts from 1840 to 1865.

Author : Ellen Skerrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89065705485

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At the Crossroads by Ellen Skerrett Pdf

Featuring 50 archival photos, "At the Crossroads" reveals the role that Old Saint Patrick's Church has played--and continues to play--in the history of Chicago and the Irish American experience. As the "mother parish" of the Chicago Irish and the oldest public building in the city, the church's urban landscape tells the story of Chicago's growth and development.

Author : Lawrence John McCaffrey,Ellen Skerrett,Michael F. Funchion,Charles Fanning
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001275538

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The Irish in Chicago by Lawrence John McCaffrey,Ellen Skerrett,Michael F. Funchion,Charles Fanning Pdf

Examines the history, religion, politics, and literature of one of the city's most influential ethnic groups.

Author : John Moses
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : MINN:31951001958819R

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History of Chicago, Illinois by John Moses Pdf

"For the student of geology have been succinctly set forth the operation of the pre-historic influences which were at work upon the site of Chicago ages before man trod upon the earth. Following this is a complete and connected, though condensed, narrative history of the 'Garden City,' through its various stages of village, town and municipality, showing the formative causes and describing the central events of each decade in Chicago's civic, financial and political relations. In connection with this narrative history, but following it, many subjects of special interest or importance have been treated topically. Among the most prominent of these may be enumerated : trade and commerce, the railroad interests centering in Chicago, the enormous manufacturing industries, the financial institutions of the city, public works, the parks, the drainage canal, bridges, tunnels, intramural transit, the bench and bar (to which is appended a special chapter relating to notable trials), the growth of religion as shown by church history, the professions of medicine and dentistry, the steadily growing influence of the press, libraries, authors, art, amusements, clubs, homes, and the labor disturbances of 1894" --

Author : Roger D. Hunt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476626352

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Colonels in Blue--Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin by Roger D. Hunt Pdf

The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental commanders from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A brief sketch of each is included--many published here for the first time--giving a synopsis of Civil War service and biographical details, along with photos where available.