The Irish Brigade at Gettysburg 

I’m American with Irish roots with family from Kerry and Cork 🇮🇪

Extremely proud of my heritage the Anglican version of our name is Buckley but the Gaelic is O’bucchalah

The Irish are scattered throughout the whole world hence why everyone likes them.💚🇮🇪

Nate, I just read about the 29th MA, and talk about mixing oil and water!

Thank you John!

It is in my will that it will be played at my funeral.

Fighting 69 !

You are correct, Burnside was the first President and Hancock was President in 1881,

Guilty as charged. Notice, I placed a quick correction in the video. It was dedicated on July 2, 1888.

@@MilitaryHistory317 same year Celtic Football club was formed in Glasgow, Scotland

The Irish hated the blacks..and the slaves..they were seen to be on par with them..the draft riots were down to Irish being pissed at the blacks not being drafted or conscripted and thus taking there jobs...they truely fought for their place at the table.. and bless their heroism but as always..they were cannon fodder...despite their bravery

There were instances when the Irish upheld their moral fortitude with regards to their religious beliefs...Mexican American war..when they joined the Mexicans and formed the San Patricios

They redeemed themselves for valiantly fighting for the Union and laying their lives to defeat the Confederacy

The purpose of the Federal Army, which everyone including soldiers or the Irish Brigade understood, was to secure the Union and, following the First Emancipation Proclamation (issued before Gettysburg), to secure the freedom of all the Black slaves in the rebel states. The great thing about American democracy is that these two policy objectives had to be endorsed, or rejected, by vote of the citizens in the 1864 elections. The immigrants who served in the Federal Army, including the soldiers of the Irish Brigade, also fought to secure their own honoured place in America after the war. They succeeded. Any two-bit demagogue can stir up mob hysteria and irrational violence. Some of the Irish people in New York were stirred to irrational violent anarchy, including the murder of Black people, in support of the political desperadoes masquerading as "moderates" who would appease rebellion and slaveholding -- the "Copperheads". Sociology and psychology might attempt to "explain" irrational anarchy but the irrational defies explanation. And in spite of the Copperheads, and the rioting, Irish Americans continued to support the policy objectives of the war. There were, of course, a rather small number of Irish people who joined the rebels, mostly to fight for their place in the attempted new country. A few of these fought with the First Virginia Regiment and some died in Pickett's change. Whatever they thought of the rebellion, it didn't do them much good.