Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Massachusetts

by Lawrence Kohl, Margaret Cosse Richard

Overview

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers

This rare epistolary collection from the Civil War era preserves, amidst a recounting of the martial actions of the Irish Brigade, Peter Welsh's reflections on migration, citizenship, and what we owe to our institutions in an era of prejudice and discrimination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531510930
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Series:	The Irish in the Civil War
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170

About the Author

Lawrence Frederick Kohl is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and series editor of the Irish in the Civil War.

Editorial Reviews

Very seldom does one come across so inspiring a volume. . . . It belongs in every Irish-American library. . . . Anyone with an interest in the Civil War and/or the history of the Irish in America should own a copy of this very fine work.

Irish Edition