David T Gleeson: 2 books
The Green and the Gray
The Irish in the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers...
by David T. Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.
The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they...