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URAL TO TALK ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE IRISH BRIGADE AND FREDERICKSBURG. I WAS AN UNDERGRADUATE AT MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE AND WAS WELL INTO MY FIRST YEAR...
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THANK YOU. I THINK. FACEBOOK, IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL. THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TODAY. JOHN AND ELLEN AND EVERYBODY. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME....
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| 00:40:59 |
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SOME QUESTIONS? >> I
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KNOW. IT'S SO DEPRESSING. >> DID THE
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FORMER PEOPLE WHO KNEW NOTHING HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE IRISH MORALE AT THE START AND HAVE AN EFFECT IN KEEPING THEM FROM RECOVERING MORALE SINCE MANY...
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| 00:41:18 |
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PLACE? >> YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S NOT THAT IRISH CATHOLICS EVER BECOME REPUBLICANS BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION. IT'S THAT THE WAR FOR UNION IS ONE...
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| 00:42:50 |
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THAT MANY OF THE CONFEDERATE IRISH WERE FIGHTING WITH THE SAME SORT OF MOTIVATIONS IN MIND AS THE IRISH BRIGADE. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU COULD COMMENT...
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| 00:43:06 |
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NO. IT WON'T EVER GO THAT FAR. NO. JUST NO. I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO ELABORATE ON THAT ONE. IT'S A GREAT POINT YOU BRING UP AS FAR AS WHAT MAY HAVE...
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| 00:44:05 |
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MA'AM. I JUST FINISHED READING A HISTORY OF IRELAND, AND I WAS SHOCKED TO NOTE IN THE BOOK THAT THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THAT DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR...
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| 00:44:24 |
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YEAH. IT SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT BEAR WITH ME. THERE'S TWO INVASIONS OF CANADA, BECAUSE THEY DON'T THINK NECESSARILY THAT THEY CAN NECESSARILY LAUNCH A...
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| 00:45:09 |
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MANY ORANGE IRISHMEN INVOLVED IN THIS? YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THE CATHOLIC IRISH, OBVIOUSLY. BUT THERE ARE A ANOTHER GROUP. WERE THEY INVOLVED? >>
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| 00:45:19 |
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YOU WANT THE SCOTS IRISH, PROTESTANTS IN THE U.S. OR JUST PROTESTANT IRISHMEN IN GENERAL? SCOTS IRISH? >> I'M THINKING OF SCOTCH
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| 00:45:26 |
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IRISH. >> THE
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| 00:45:27 |
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PROBLEM WITH THE SCOTTS IRISH IS SEPARATING THEM OUT IS THE PROBLEM. BY THE TIME YOU GET TO 1860, HUGE CHUNKS OF THE UNITED STATES TIE THEMSELVES...
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| 00:46:54 |
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IRISH POPULATION TENDED TO STAY IN URBAN AREAS. WAS THAT ALSO TRUE IN THE SOUTH, OR DID THEY SCATTER THEMSELVES IN
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RURAL AREAS? >> NO. I MEAN, THERE'S VARIOUS THEORIES ON WHY THEY DON'T GO TO RURAL AREAS. PART OF THE THEORY IS THAT BY THE TIME IRISH CATHOLICS ACTUALLY...
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| 00:48:40 |
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VARIOUS CITIES -- NEW YORK, BOSTON, ET CETERA -- DID YOU SEE ANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CITIES? >> LITTLE
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BITS. CHICAGO WAS ONE OF THE OTHER AREAS I STUDIED BECAUSE THAT'S THE FOURTH LARGEST. I WENT AND DID A FAIR AMOUNT THERE. LITTLE BITS OF DIFFERENCES,...
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| 00:50:14 |
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HELLO. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THOMAS MEAGHER. SO AFTER FREDERICKSBURG, WHAT HAPPENS AS FAR AS HIS SUPPORT OF THE UNION AND -- >>
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OH. >> -- IN TERMS OF LIKE --
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I THINK HE BECOMES A TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR OR SOMETHING. >>
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YEAH. >> COULD YOU GO A LITTLE
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INTO THAT? >> THEN HE DIES FALLING OFF
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| 00:50:32 |
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A BOAT, AS RUMORS SAY, DRUNK. AS I'VE OFTEN POINTED OUT HE'S HARDLY THE ONLY COMMANDER WHO'S HAD A LITTLE BIT TO DRINK. IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE...
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| 00:52:16 |
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DID THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAVE ON THE IRISH VIEWS AND SLAVERY SINCE THE POPE WASN'T ENTIRELY ON BOARD WITH CONFEDERATE SLAVE HOLDING? >>
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YEAH. AS FAR AS THE CHURCH ITSELF, I WOULD ARGUE THAT MOST CATHOLICS, PARTICULARLY IN THE NORTH, LOOKED TO JOHN HUGHES, ARCHBISHOP IN NEW YORK, FOR...
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HAPPENED, DID HE EVER GET ON THE HORSE AND GET BACK ACROSS THE MILL RACE? >> WITH MAUER,
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NO. >> WHAT DID HE DO THE REST
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OF THE DAY? >> THE REST OF THE DAY,
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| 00:54:15 |
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I DON'T KNOW. HE STAYED ON THE SIDE OF THE -- FRANK? YEAH, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST IT. HE'S BASICALLY STAYING OVER THERE. FRANK SAVED ME. HE SAID HE'S RALLYING...
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| 00:54:42 |
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TO THE QUESTION RIGHT THERE PRETTY WELL. I KNOW DURING THE EARLIER EXPERIENCES AND MEXICAN WAR, CATHOLIC, IRISH RELATIONS WITHIN THE MILITARY WERE VERY...
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NO. THE LAST CHAPTER OF MY BOOK, WHICH IS FOR SALE OUTSIDE -- NO, BUT SERIOUSLY, I MEAN, I ENDED UP GETTING A "B" IN MY CIVIL WAR CLASS WHEN I WAS...
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| 00:57:25 |
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THE EMBALMERS WHO WERE PROMOTING THEIR TRADE. IS IT SOMETHING ABOUT THE IRISH IN THE CIVIL WAR THAT ENCOURAGED THAT SORT OF ACTIVITY, OR WAS IT PERVASIVE...
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| 00:57:36 |
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YEAH, YOU CAN SEE IT ACROSS THE BOARD. I HAD A STUDENT ONE TIME, ONE OF THE TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANTS, SHE WAS A TEACHER WHO HER HUSBAND'S FAMILY...
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