Custer's 7th: Myles Keogh☘️ Gallant Irishman ☘️
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2024
- Dashing Myles Keogh was born in County Carlow, Ireland.
But the romantic and military-minded young man did not stay there for long.
Keogh fought for the Papal Army in Italy against Garibaldi, for the Union Army against the Confederates during the American Civil War, and then with the Seventh Cavalry against the Sioux and Cheyenne at the famed Battle of the Little Bighorn/ Custer’s Last Stand in faraway Montana.
What sent this Irishman so far from home?
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The best book (image is in the final slide of this video) on Myles Keogh is
MYLES KEOGH: The Life and Legend of an "Irish Dragoon" in the Seventh Cavalry,
edited and compiled by John P. Langellier, Kurt Hamilton Cox, & Brian Pohanka
(Montana and the West Series, Vol 9)
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Mr. Keogh sounds like a remarkable man. Even the Indian warriors saw that, they treated his body with respect unlike so many others.
Yes! Great point. Will go into that in Part II for sure!
There is a gallantry and valiant character with these men that is growing more scarce with time. I am so grateful for your presentation. Again I applaud your depth of research as well as your ability to breath life into these wonderful. I save all of your videos into a file so I can revisit and pick up details that I may have missed before.Happy St. Patrick's Day.
So good of you to say, Sunny!! ☘️
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Yet another fantastic episode! Can't wait for part 2! Miles lived an extremely interesting life. His military exploits- what an international story.
Thank you! 🍀
Thank you, Walter!
@@SiobhanFallon7 shared it on my Facebook page. I cannot wait for #2!
@@walterbrown9651 Thank you so much for sharing!!!!! 🎉🍀
A soldier to the bitter end. Thank you for your, as usual, delightful delve into details of the Seventh.
Siobhan, It is my pleasure to let you know how great of a storyteller (albeit Historical/non-fiction) and I'm glad the timing was good for you. I will most assuredly continue to let you know as I proceed to other segments. I'm so glad that I happened upon your series! Btw, I loved your Irish accent coming through as you spoke of Myles's story. It truly made for an endearing quality to your presentation.
@@user-jv8jl3rp2i thank you! Ha, I have gotten so beat up about those accents! 🤦🏼♀️ but I love doing them 🤣🍀
Great job Siobhan! Another interesting personality from the 7th Cavalry.
Thanks so much, Joe!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you!!
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day Siobhan!
Another great video Siobhan. What a larger than life character Miles Keogh was. I was born in Newtonards Northern Ireland but grew up in Western Scotland. So there is always a trace of 'the green' in me 😂.
We are lucky to have some green in us! 😉🍀
The Irish Catholic military diaspora is a fascinating story. No other people have fought in so many different wars, all over the World in so many different time periods. Sometimes on opposite sides. Interesting fact: Irish Americans are the ethnicity that have been awarded the most Medals of Honor and in Britain the Irish have won the most Victoria Crosses per head of population.
Whoa, really?? I had not heard that about Medals of Honors or Victoria Crosses.
Incredible.
Thanks for sharing and commenting! 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
Wonderful historical retelling of Myles Keogh's story. Thank you. It's important to set the record straight on the "Irish potato famine". Blight did impact potato crops from 1845 to 1852. Fields of potatoes, the staple food of the dispossed and largely landless indigenous Irish, were left in ruin. However, these potato fields bordered on farmed estates owned by English families that produced wheat, market vegetables, fruit and that raised an abundance of sheep, cattle, pigs and poultry. None of these food sources were affordable to the habitually destitute indigenous Irish and therefore not accessible. Instead, during time of famine foods produced in Ireland, which served as Britain's food basket, were exported to England and markets beyond. It is important to remember that the Penal Laws imposed by England on Catholics in Ireland, and which trapped the indigenous Irish in a perpetual circle of poverty and destitution, made it a crime for Catholics to own land, own a horse worth more than $2, receive an education, enter any profession, own a boat longer than 12 feet. Such was the absolute severity of the Penal Laws that the Irish language was outlawed, as was literature and Irish music. The practice of religion in the Catholic faith was also prohibited. The key aim of the Penal Laws was to rid the island of Ireland of its indigenous Gaelic people, to finish the mission started in the 16th century when the Gaelic aristocracy fell in to demise after a continuous series of wars against English incursions in Ireland that escalated in the 14th and 15th centuries. With Gaelic leadership gone, and hundreds of thousands dead from wars to retain Gaelic control of the island, the English introduced a legislative road map, enforced by the military, that was intended to prevent a regrouping of the Gaelic world against it. The goal was to reduce the indigenous population through poverty in the hope that Catholics would die in large numbers or leave the country. In this the Penal Laws included a provision that required the distribution of land and property equally to each of the sons in a family upon the death of the father. With life expectancy for Catholic males in Ireland just 42 in the 18th century, the law quickly reduced the size of any lands and wealth held by families. What land a Catholic owned was reduced to a size that made it no longer sustainable and English landlords swooped to pick it up for a modest price. Against this backdrop, the Penal Laws ensured that Catholics were forced to sell land to survive, with the final insult being families, if they were lucky, renting a small lot of land from the landlord that bought it on the cheap. From being landowners with the possibility to feed their families to being tenants with not enough land or resources to feed their families. This was the sheer nightmare for the indigenous Irish in the 18th century. The indigenous Irish, not of their choosing, were not allowed or could not afford to farm cattle, grow grain crops, improve their status through education. And so they turned for survival to growing potatoes, a nutritious food they could grow from seed and retain a portion on a good harvest to sow the following year. Potatoes and cow's milk, the staple diet of the impoverished in the Ireland of the 18th century. The impoverished were prohibited from fishing in rivers and lakes, and didn't have the boats and means to fish the sea in any meaningful way. Famine and human destruction for the indigenous Irish was inevitable when the potato blight struck in 1845. Was it an act of genocide by the British government of the day? The blight that ruined the potato crops was a cataclysmic and unforeseen event. The non-actions taken by the British government to feed their "starving subjects" was very much part of a genocide that had already been embedded in the Penal Laws. As the indigenous population starved thousands of tons of meat, grains, vegetables, fruit and live animals left Ireland in ships. Britain called it market forces. It was into this Ireland that Myles Keogh was born. He joined European armies to gain education and military because as a Catholic he was denied such access and status in Ireland. Myles Keogh's life and death are fascinating in equal measures.
Yes, absolutely, I agree with you about Irish history. I know I only scratched the surface here but it was important to at least mention the famine and it's devastation.
I'm working on another video about the enlisted men of the 7th and in that one I can hopefully say a bit more, as their lives were catastrophically affected.
Thanks so much for your comment and insights! Incredible knowledge there. 🙏🍀
Thank you. My family roots are from Keogh's neck of the woods. In fact during Gaelic rule in Munster, the Keoghs, anglicized from Mac Eochaidh, were a tributary clan to my clan the Ua Dubhedír (O'Dwyer) of Central Tipperary. It's difficult not to be enraptured by history and how it helped shape us and the times we live in. I appreciate the incredible research you undertake to deliver the high quality, unbiased offerings on history you do. Keep up the great work.
Gerard, Thank you for that wonderful post and information.! :)
@gerardodwyer5908 thank you! Your info is great. Please continue to chime in as I put out a couple more Irish in the 7th Cavalry themed presentations! 🇮🇪
As one keeps searching for truth.. we will find it.. ❤️❤️❤️thank you..3 AM Sunday March 17..2024 LA
My favorite officer of the 7th, though I scratch my head over the deployment of his battalion on Battle Ridge. Two companies were required to defend Calhoun Hill, but he deployed only one, and kept two companies in reserve. Another great video.
I'm thinking they may have lost their mounts. It all happened so quickly.
I'm a little nervous about tackling Part II actually because my view of Keogh's fight keeps shifting. So wish me luck, Bruce, and feel free to disagree with me ... 😉☘️
@@SiobhanFallon7Give it your best shot....its always good enough!!
So glad you have chosen Captain Keogh as your latest video. I have always thought of him as a true Irish adventurer. As always the characters leap from the pages, and look forward to Part two.
Thank you! 🇮🇪
Killer
Garryowen! Wonderful stuff!
THANK YOU!!! ☘️🍺☘️ Slainte!
@@SiobhanFallon7Thanks for posting this!Is your first name Irish?
So cool. Very interesting man who met a sad end.
He fought so bravely the Indians did not mutilate his body like they did the rest of the 7th, except for Custer.
Yes!! That will be in Part II for sure!!
The body of Miles Keough was not mutilated by the Indians as a number of them had been educated by Jesuit priests. Keough' was wearing around his neck the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel which had exhorisms attached to it . The Order of Carmel dates back to Elias & Mount Carmel in 8th century B.C.
@johnmorgan4313 thank you!! I will cover in Part II, which I am working on now!! 🙏
Happy St. Patrick's Day Siobhan...🍀🍀🍀🍀
Thank you, Jeff, you too! ☘️🇮🇪☘️
Many thanks for adding the human element to capt Keough's life history we were afforded another view of this gallant officers interesting existence, it's greatly appreciated, entering into the army around the same age as Keough i was able to identify with certain aspects of his service. Bye the bye the Green dress truly accentuates Ur stunning beauty. I look forward to the 2nd edition.
Oh, Stanley, thank you! Had to wear my green for this one 😉
Historians often refer to Keogh as depressed or melancholic, but how could he not be with the history he saw and all the friends he lost? 🍀
Glad Keogh's story resonated with you and your own military experience!
All I can humbly say as a soldier, an officer, and a member of a recreational cavalry unit at Fort Huachuca, is thank you. My girlfriend at Berkeley lived next door to Mrs. Kathleen Nimitz, wife of Admiral Chester Nimitz. I always respected Capt Myles Keough, but your brought him alive for me. Thank you again, Lady.
What a lovely message to receive from you, John. Thank you 🍀🙏🍀
Jesus H.; seriously?! Next door to Nimitz's wife/widow? That's some seriously good luck...
I believe it was Libby herself that described Captain Keogh as : " The most beautiful man in the Army. " Probably not his most prominent attribute, but still a pleasnt compliment.
He is quite handsome, I must say... 🍀
Another fantastic video. Boy, the hits just keep on coming. I have always wanted To know more about this fascinating figure. As usual, You are research. Is phenomenal. Can't wait for part 2.
Thanks, Barbara! Lots of requests to focus on this fellow and I loved doing it and learning about my own Irish history as well.
Always great to hear from you!
@@SiobhanFallon7 Should have guessed happy St. Patrick's Day.
Thank you, Siobhan, your documentaries are phenomenal! I can tell that you love history and put great care into your research and presentation.
@@user-jv8jl3rp2i thank you! I needed a little positive comment today! 🙏💕
I'm trying to finish another today or tomorrow!
Hope to hear from you again soon!
@@SiobhanFallon7 You are awesome Siiobhan, it will be my pleasure to respond to you soon on another of your presentations.
Brilliant! I’m from Co. Roscommon and I joined the US Navy at 18. Great story.
Thank you!! 🍀🇺🇸🍀
To a certain extent, Custer was fed up with Keogh's absences. Keogh had in fact requested a leave of absence prior to the campaign and Custer had denied it.
As always, your presentations are detailed and entertaining. Part 1 gives clarity and background on Myles Keogh that transports a mere historical name into to a real person. Although, we know the sad ending, my expectation for your Part 2 is greatly anticipated. Good work
Another lovely message. It's always great to hear from you.!
Each time I do these, it's almost as if the ending might change and they might survive. Of course, they don't, but learning about their full lives makes me see more than a tombstone. So glad you understand this too 🙏
I am always impressed by your ability to find all these marvellous details and rare photographs. Perhaps your best video yet. Outstanding!
Thank you, Richard!! 🍀
Great story telling. Always enjoy your videos!
Im so glad you do wonderful history that we know so little of..keep up your informative, true accounts of men and women we've heard so little of.
Thank you!! 🙏🍀🙏
Amazing story of an amazing man.Seems like people traveled as much then as we do now, only took longer!God rest Col. Keogh and the Men of the 7th and their Families.Erin Go Bragh!☘️
Yes!! And we complain about airport security and not having enough leg room on flights!! Can you imagine what they went through? 🤣🍀
Thank you Siobhan a fantastic cast and a wonderful tribute to Captain Keogh, until watching this I never knew Captain Keogh was from County Carlow. My Grandfather was born in County Wexford which borders County Carlow. I shall raise a glass or three to my Grandfather and to Captain Miles Keogh and the 7th this evening. Again Thank you
Slainte to you, Jason, and your grandfather!!
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Thanks for the kind words!
Please do come back for Part II 🙏
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you and yours ☘️
Happy Saint Patricks Day tomorrow, Mrs Fallon!
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Thank you!! You too! ☘️🇮🇪☘️
I live near Myles Keoghs home near Leighlinbridge in County Carlow. I visited the Custer Battle field many years ago and the site where Myles fell in battle. I also visited his home which is still the same as when he lived there.
That's wonderful.
I'll be going to Ireland again soon, and I hope to get to Carlow 🍀
Happy Easter!
@@SiobhanFallon7Carlow is the burial place of Walt Disneys ancestors..
@@danwebb4418 I did not know that.
I love hearing the background of the men of the 7th. Great Job
Thanks so much, Scott. They led such amazing lives.
Your videos never disappoint. Many thanks for the knowledge and inside information!
Thank you!!!
Garryowen!
I grew up in the 7th Cavalry tradition driven in part by my Irish roots. When I was about 11 I was introduced to Myles Keogh and the rest is history as they say. The day I was assigned to the 7th Cavalry was one of my proudest.
Wow, did not realize your history. That's amazing. Thanks so much for watching and commenting... I am trying so hard to get Part II up today!!!
Very interesting informative a great irishman myles keogh cant wait for part two
Thank you!! 🍀
His was one of the markers that I looked for when I went to the battlefield. As usual you made a great video with good info on the 7th Cav. Well done
Jay, you made my day!! Thank you.
I'll include photos of his markers in Part II!
Siobhan, thank you so much for making a video about my favorite fighting Irishman!
thank you! So glad you approve! Working hard on Part II now.. please wish me some Irish luck that I get it done soon...
Excellent presentation, Siobhan ! Looking forward to Part 2.
Thank you!
another great one.
Well-done with great factual foundation AND a sense of Myles Keeping, the man!!!!!
Thank you!!
Wow, Mr. Keogh is truly an inspiration; I'm so glad that you are bringing light to his story
Thank you!!!
Very interesting story, and life of Keogh. I'm looking forward to part 2. Thank you, and Regards from Canada 🇨🇦!
Thanks so much!!
Ms. Fallon, your delivery of this incredible story makes it all the better
Much appreciated, Maeve! So good of you to take the time to comment 🙏🐰🙏
You narrated this story beautifully ☘️
So lovely of you to say!! Thank you 🙏
Happy belated St. Patrick's Day, Siobhan! This was definitely one of your best! I love how you connected some of my favorite subjects-- Irish history, Catholic history, the Civil War, and of course, the Seventh! Your use of quotes and images, not to mention the music, really made Keogh's story come alive for me. I especially love to think of him reading Charles O'Malley aloud to a group! (And to think that he and GAC were both inspired by that same book!) I have to say, I so love your focus on the people, both the soldiers and their families, who made up the Seventh Cavalry! It reminds me of what Emerson said: "There is no history properly speaking-- only biography." Your approach is awesome!
Patrick, thanks so much! You and I seem to think the same way about people and the moments they inhabit-- it's the individual stories that draw me in, and in that way I understand the larger history.
Great to hear from you!
@@SiobhanFallon7 I took the same approach in my book "New York Catholics, " a series of short biographies.
@@patrickmcnamara2869 I must look that up!!! 🙌🙏🙌
Really interesting thanks.
Thank you!!
Great video,well done 🇮🇪
What a great video! Instant subscription 👍👍
Thank you!! I hope to have Part II up soon!!
Just to say Siobhan, your presentation is excellent overall. Thank you. As an Irishman living in Ireland, you made one reference to the 'little Irishman' regarding Captain Keogh! We happen to be one of the tallest peoples in Europe, on average, and Captain Keogh was over six feet which was way above average for his time, and which you earlier referred to. Looking back over his career, and the number of battles he fought, usually in the advanced part of the many charges, it's a wonder that he and men like him lived so long. I think he had a charmed existence up to the Little Big Horn. He was known as you know for his outstanding bravery. I heard a documentary on Irish Radio about him, and a historian from Co Carlow,
said that the Sioux said that he was the bravest man they ever fought against.
Maybe you can confirm that. He may have been the Officer on the horse in buckskin who charged at them single-handed to cover his men s retreat toward's Last Stand Hill, as I have read. Looking forward to part 2. Regards, Andrew
Oh gosh when I mentioned "little Irishmen" it was because there was Keogh and his friend in a sketch on the screen, and they were quite small in the drawing and yet you could see who they were and they were wearing their Papal medals. As ypu point out he was over six feet tall and his reputation is even greater!!
Thanks for the suggestion-- I will try to address (in Part II) when I talk about his death and some of the Native testimony about it.
So good to hear from you! 🍀
Thank you for bringing this to light😊 i know the story well im from Ireland.. you nailed it
Thank you!!! ☘️🇮🇪☘️
That was an excellent presentation, Ms. Fallon. I often wondered when someone would give Myles Keough a spotlight on UA-cam? He was certainly a gallant and handsome Irishman, with a good deal of class. It wasn't an easy task to gain a Captain's Commission in the Regular Army, following the US Civil War. Especially, when the Army was greatly downsizing. My knowledge of this gentleman's life is minimal, but I always thought William Seward was involved with him in some way; along with James Shields, the Irish-born US politician and General Officer. I'm also quite certain that the Throop Martin Family had links to Secretary Seward, as well. I grew up in the Syracuse area and knew that Capt. Keough's remains were interred at Fort Hill (Auburn).
I'd love to visit his grave at Auburn someday.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏
Lots of folks have requested I do a video about him so you are not the only one wondering when he'd get the UA-cam spotlight! 😉☘️🎉
Do let me know if you have any suggestions and I hope to hear from you again!
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thank you ma'am, you are very kind.
Really enjoyed this. Keep up the good work. Happy belated ST Patricks day from NI
Thank you so much!! 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
Please be sure to come back for part two 🙏 I hope to have it up next week!
Siobhan, there was no "patato famine", there was just a patato blight. There were mountains of food in Ireland but it was removed by the British at gun point and sent to England. A book by Chris Fogarty covers it, called “Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect'.” "A Summary of what you'll find in The Perfect Holocaust Book
Ireland in 1845-1850 was essentially, entirely owned by English landlords, many of them Lords temporal or spiritual, in estates typically of tens of thousands of acres. Their land titles were conquest-based. On these estates the Irish were tenants-at-will on holdings of typically three to eight acres the rent of which they paid by, typically, 250-260 days of unpaid work annually on the landlord’s estate.
In previous centuries the Irish, under British rule, were non-persons, stripped of legal personhood. As murder requires personhood: the Irish were thus legally killable by any English person at will. Education was prohibited by law.
No army of English seasonal migrants produced Ireland’s vast and varied food crops. Other than the landlords’ support groups of Church of Ireland (Anglican) clergy, his doctors, lawyers, newspaper owners, the military and officers of police, the bureaucracy, etc., all of Ireland’s agricultural production was performed by the Irish people.
In and around 1845-1850, Ireland was a police State: 1,590 police stations (averaging 48 stations per county each with 8 policemen, a separate Revenue Police (1,200), Castle Police (spies, 100), and Dublin Metropolitan Police (1,100). Each county had one landlord-led militia regiment, but Dublin, Mayo, and Limerick had two each, and Cork had three.
Ireland’s abundant meats, livestock, and other foods, though produced by the Irish were claimed by the landlords. Upon international failure of potato crops, Ireland’s failure starting in 1845, Ireland’s food producers fiercely resisted police and militia efforts to remove it to the ports for export. Regular army deployments into Ireland increased to 34 regiments in 1845 and to 40 in 1850. “Black ‘47” was the food removers’ most active year. Deployment lag time explains the 1848 peak of 35.4 regiment/years. More than half of Britain’s standing army removed Ireland’s foods; 67 regiments of its total of 126 regiments and two brigades. For reference, this was more military force than was used during Britain’s conquest of the Indian Subcontinent (today’s India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh).
On July 5, 1847, in the depths of the Irish genocide, Lord Clarendon wrote from his Vice-Regal Lodge in Phoenix Park to Prime Minister Lord Russell; “Sir Edward Blakeney says that the Country is tranquil and if it were not for the harassing duty of escorting provisions, the troops would have little to do.”
The (London) Times’ contemporaneous reports of increased landings of Irish food in English ports are accessible in detail on-line.
The genocidal mass evictions and robbery of crops continued until the Land League, Boycott, and international outrage forced England to buy out its landlords from Ireland in 1900-1920. The vast estates were “striped” into typically 28-acre survival farms with an acre or two of the nearest bog for fuel and allocated to the Irish cultivators of the soil. So munificent; so far above market price, was that “golden handshake” to the departing landlords that the amortization period was set at 68.5 years. Thus my (Chris Fogarty) father and all of our neighbors in Co. Roscommon and obviously the rest of Ireland, were paying off that old “debt” into the 1970s. Ireland’s farmers paid semi-annual Rates (taxes) and those “Rents.” Ireland’s centuries of imposed destitution ended upon the end of that “Rent” payment.
In 1932 Ireland’s Fianna Fail gov’t under Taoiseach Eamon de Valera withheld the annual £4 million rent to London. Britain retaliated with an embargo on Irish goods, but it faded approaching WW2.
The use of massive armed force to starve Ireland belies the exculpatory “famine” and its synonyms “great hunger/gorta mor.” “Genocide” is accurate, but no Irish person had ever used it; it was coined post-WW2 by Raphael Lemkin to educate the US Congress as to Nazis crimes against Jews. An appropriately inculpatory label was used to report events in Ireland starting in 1846. Writers Davitt, Fitzgerald, et al. and the Cork Examiner (now Irish Examiner) repeatedly reported it as a Holocaust.
“Famine to Freedom” film is a recent concealment of the Holocaust and the British army’s perpetration of it. Its academic producers pretended to not recognize the grain-harvesting reaping hook (sickle) they excavated in Ballykilcline, Strokestown. Their “potato famine” film ignores the following non-potato food processors of 1845-1850 Ireland: 1,935 grain mills, 1,984 grain kilns, 555 flour mills, 948 livestock pounds, 144 tuck mills, 136 grain-using breweries and 72 distilleries, 62 threshers (though most was done by flail), 45 woolen mills (mutton and lamb), 43 windmills, butter churning mills, sheep folds, pig markets, corn markets, bacon stores, etc.
All was removed at gunpoint and exported.
Hundreds of Ireland’s Holocaust mass graves remain unmarked due to fear of the “Royal Dáil.”
Let us unite with relatives and friends to erect Memorial Monuments over all of Ireland's Holocaust mass graves; each of us focusing on the mass grave nearest our ancestral home. Until abandonment of the "famine" lie, each monument must name the regiments that stripped that district of its food crops. The six existing monuments will serve as models pending a better design. Contact us (fogartyc@att.net) for any needed info."
That's incredible info, thank you. There is only so much I could go into about this in a brief video, but I agree with you that the British enacted an attempt at total erasure of Irish culture and willfully starved and evicted families. I once got into a debate with a Native American man when I tried to point out England's treatment of the Irish in a conversation about American treatment of Indians and he was furious at me for daring to compare. Clearly the world doesn't have a clue about Irish history.
Again thanks for the details. I will look into the site you shared.
Propaganda…..
You killed it amazing job
Thank you Siobhan for another excellent episode.
Thank you, Simon!!
Part II is up and I also just put this "short" companion up too... 🐎
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Amazing Story!
Thank you! 🍀
Thanks for posting regards from Waterford Ireland
Thank you!! 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
Very well researched. My own family live in that area and I know it and its history very well.
Thank you!!
This touches my heart. 😪
Well done.
Thank you, Teri! 🍀
WOW WHAT A STORY!!
You failed to mention his relationship with the wife of Captain Nathan Brittles 😅 ....... Superb work again 😊
Brilliant 😂
That Irishman sure could waltz!
I don't know about this woman! Do tell...
HA HA HA HA!! YES I DO KNOW THIS STORY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@drkoz76 HA ha ha ha!!! Ok I got it now...
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! One of my favorite of Custers men!!! Do we have any idea what happened to his medals from the pope today? They were left on his body after his death so I would think someone has them maybe in a museum????
You will have to wait til Part II... 😉🤣🍀
I'm reminded of the old ballad "Lady of Carlisle", also known as "The Bold Lieutenant". The plot finds a soldier and a sailor vying for the love of the beautiful Lady of Carlisle. In order to test the ardor of the two suitors, she threw her fan into a lions den. The soldier balked, decaring "I will not give my life for love".
The sailor boldly responded "I will return her fan or die!" then bravely entered the lions den and retrieved her fan, thus winning the hand of the Lady Fair. I wish it was that easy in this day and age lol.
Great content as usual!
Ha ha! If only I had a fan and a lion twenty years ago! ;)
I will look that ballad up, thank you for the recommendation !
@SiobhanFallon7 one has to make sure the suitor is in earnest lol
Thanks again for what you do!
Awesome video! I was waiting for your presentation and you did not disappoint as usual!!☘️
That was really good and fascinating- I live not far from where Keogh was from. And the surname Keogh still very prominent in the locality.
Thank you!!!
Wish me luck posting Part II tonight! 🍀🙏🍀
Thirty six of the 210? who died at the Little Big Horn were born in, and came from all the counties of Ireland. When one looks back at the disaster it's difficult not to feel how sad the whole business was. For the Indians as well.
Absolutely.
I have plans to do a presentation on the Irish in the 7th CAV after I finish Keogh's life!
Quite interesting.
thanks!
From one Keogh to another, respect cousin. ✌🏻☘️
Great oratory the voice
Thank you!
What a well put together account of Cpt Keogh. Maith thú Siobhán, ionteach! ☘️
Thank you 🙏☘️🙏
Please check back soon and send me some Irish luck that I get Part II up TONIGHT 🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 you're doing great work Siobhán 👏, keep it up 😁👌
A well told story of a man often over looked, l live only a few miles from where he was born
Thank you so much, Gerald!
I have had "Follow me up to Carlow" in my head for weeks now!! 🎶
Trying to finish Part II asap... 🍀🙏🍀
You did the "Keogh" pronunciation well and nailed the "Leighlinbridge" pronunciation perfectly, Siobhan!
You also did a fabulous job with Keogh's background at the time. Luckily for him and his family they weren't directly affected by the Irish famine but he saw what was going on and him and his family were not impressed by the way it was handled by the authorities.
As an amateur Myles Keogh buff l find him way more interesting than Custer (as an Irishman l admit I'm biased) and can definitively say that you're rapidly turning into a Keogh expert yourself!!
Sure there's nothing better us lrish love than an 'awl scrap!
Happy Paddy's Day from Dublin. Niall.
Oh, thank you, Niall!!
If I got the pronunciations right, it was thanks to your coaching!!!
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I have heard it said locally in Wicklow in modern times that after the Battle the only thing alive was Myles Keogh's horse
Hi Brian! Yes! I talk about Keogh's horse quite a bit here...
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Also in this 59 second short video... 🍀 🐎....
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Interesting as always. I have heard several historians speculate that when Keogh went down it lead very quickly to I company collapsing and that flank then caving in
Leading to the end result.
That’s what makes LBH so fascinating that we will never know for sure exactly what happened.
Yes!! I need to figure out how to tackle that in Part II... wish me luck... 😬🍀
@@SiobhanFallon7 Good luck and look forward to it!!
i love your videos. please do a video or videos on the possible Custer assassins. Rain in Face .Brave Bear, Curly and any others with a decent clam that you know of .
I LOVE this idea!! Thank you so much for the suggestion!
@@SiobhanFallon7 you are quite welcome . and thank YOU for the reply. that is quite rare. even more rare is to be in contact with an obvious historical research professional. please forgive me taking advantage of the opportunity, to ask for your answer to one extremely long and important question (to me). 2 years ago i acquired a large collection of 1800's photographs among the personal property of a family dating back to the Custer era. your videos have helped immensely in identifying and appreciating all the O.G Goff and D. F Barry photos i now own, surrounding little big horn . thank you so much. i now own a story not just a bunch of photos. i am very grateful for all your research and i fully intend to read all your work . i am currently doing research on another photo from that collection and time period . Known as the 7th Illinois infantry and their henry rifles by Mathew brady . its a photo of 11 men holding their brand new henrys, a bullet ridden flag and a tired dog at the men's feet. i have searched for what seems like forever. i have contacted the Smithsonian , historical & photo Facebook groups , the allatoona pass historical site, the reenactment group and every museum that brags possession of a copy. all with a no or a no reply. although many who did reply agree that the names are known to history but they cant remember where they can be found. i wish to learn the names of every person in that legendary photo. what do you suggest i try next?
@michaellazar9078 Oh, if you'd like to share I'd love to see some of the photos you mention! My email is siobhan@siobhanfallon.com.
Regarding the 7th Illinois image... maybe reach out to the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg?
I have a friend who is very knowledgeable about dogs in old photos ... there might be a tiny chance he has seen this image before.
Please feel free to share whatever you like, and I'll see if I can think of anything!
@@SiobhanFallon7 photos have been sent to your email. just now. 3/24/2024
@michaellazar9078 Thank you! I'll check now!
I remember the Disney movie about Comanche but I don't know who played Capt. Keogh. I also had the golden book as a kid.
That was Philip Carey
Here's my short on Comanche 🐎:
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Sorry, 2nd comment, Siobhan I would be remiss if I didn't mention how educational and yet fun you make these historical events. Obviously I'm not speaking of the tragedy that both sides suffered, but just the way you present it! Wow great job!
So good of you to say! I present the material the way I'd like to see if myself. I love all the odd details, relationships, letters, photos, and piecing it all together.
So glad these videos resonate with you, too 🙏
Good stuff Shiobhan if you ever venture to Ireland I can bring you to Orchard House . Myles Keogh is my great grand uncle and the present Myles and his wife Nuala would be happy to receive you. Blanchfield Cummins.
@@blanchfieldcummins6452 oh my I would love that more than you know! Yes please! We go to Ireland quite a bit-- my husband and I are trying to renovate my father's home in County Leitrim. It is in very bad shape. But we dream of getting it done and bringing my Dad to spend time there and tell us all his stories in the place where it all began. He is in his 80s so we are trying to get the house fixed quickly.
"Blanchfield" -- Keogh's mother's maiden name! Lovely! Will you send me a note to my email siobhan@siobhanfallon.com so I have an email/more direct way to contact you in the future? Thank you thank you!!!!
I was unaware of him sending money to his sisters,quite the guy. Bad luck just follows some guys😂
Yes. Lovely of him to try to take care of his family from so far away.
My father came to America as a teenager himself, all alone, ended up joining the US Atmy too. He always sent money home to his mother and father and younger brother.
How about some names and stories of LBH survivors who WEREN'T famous names but lived on to become successful American Citizens.... I am sure they also have interesting perspectives of their leaders and events... just curious....1🤔
Great idea!!
Thank you!
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Thankyou for that great video done so well.thets when men were men and women were women....they had pride,honor and were tough as nails.
They do seem like a different species, no? No complaining, just got things done.
As a native of Leighlinbridge I have to give you kudos for your pronunciation. Most irish people mispronounce it as "Lek-lin bridge" rather than the "Lough-linbridge" as demonstrated here. Great job.
Thank you!! An Irishman coached me on that one. Otherwise I never would have gotten it right!
You may have noticed the debate here about the pronunciation of Keogh.
Here we usually say Kee- Ho
But the Irish friend who told me how to say "Lock lin bridge" also told me the correct way is Kee-O.
Please tell me how you say it!
@@SiobhanFallon7 yes I noticed you switched half way through there. Keogh is pronounced "Keoo". The Kee-Ho is very much an Americanism. Like when visiting the Cliffs of Moher in Clare Americans will invariably extole the virtues of "Mo-her" rather than the "More" in the vernacular.
@ODunabhain Kee-- oo? OK! I will try in Part II!
Still working on the slides but hope to record in the next few days! Thank you so much!
@@SiobhanFallon7 Brilliant! The living decendants of the Keoghs are still in and around the village. One of them told me about his visit to the battle site a few years ago. In Leighlin he'd be a very normal chap. In America he was a minor celebrity!
Glad to help out but regardless the meticulous attention to detail in the piece is evident. Looking forward to part 2.
Siobhain ! with your lovely voice and personality you make history fascinating. and I hope you teach history to young people.
Wow ! What a fun to learn more historical details: US Aidships for the Irish 👍De Rudio on the Garibaldi side 😯 Balladsinging brave Anconafighters 🫨Company of St. Patrick picture 😶 The tragic Death of Keoghs Big Love 😪 Good friendship to Bill Comstock 🤠Bufords Magazine TV Picture 🫢 Money in clothes as Prisoner of war 👍 Hurdlerace 🤕🥴 Failed Poetryletters with flowers 😨😂 ( Remembering a same story in my early days ) 🫣 The Nelly Martin letter 😳 and Good old Dubliners Music for the fans of Born Soldiers in sausageuniforms 🥵🤣 A Big Big Fun alltogether, Thank You 👍 Comanche will come as a Bonus i‘m now waiting for 🐎 Many compliments for the Good Research and Picturing, Best quality again 👍 Working on a 1:72 scale diorama to Greasy Grass for many years and tomorrow ( 🫢Today ) i‘m visiting a big Plastikfiguremarket in Herne Germany with my son. A nine year old Little Napoleon freak 👋😂👍
Ha ha! Thank you! So glad so many different chapters of his life resonated with you.
Ha! 9 year old Napoleon freak!! Bravo!! I have an 11 year old Custer freak in training myself... 🤣🙌🙌🙌🎉
@@SiobhanFallon7 😂 A Tush for all the young and freaky boys with historical interests ! 😉
We had a wonderful St. Patrickday with new Garibaldi Toy Soldiers and Steeldarts in hand 🍀
Thanks for this perfect start in a happy day early in this european morning ☺️ Nice to train some english writing for me also 👍
Best wishes and lots of fun with Comanche 🐎
@@dieternowatius5062 🤣 I always enjoy your messages!🤣
Hope to hear from you again soon! 🐎
A relation of Keogh's fought at Mons with the British Army in 1914 and he was taken prisoner after being wounded. He joined the so called Irish Brigade of the German Army and served until 1922 or thereabouts. It is thought that while he was a senior nco on duty he came across a Freikorps man being beaten and stopped it. It is also thought that the man being beaten by the communists was one adolf hitler. This is not proved but the times and places would be about right.
Very interesting. My grandfather ( from Ardattin village in Carlow) was also wounded and captured at Mons. Spent the rest of WW1 as a pow working on farms in Bavaria.
@@quinjimlanMy own grandfather was wounded at Mons also. He served with the Royal Irish and was a POW until 1917 when he was released through the Red Cross and got back to Clonmel Co. Tipperary in September that year.
Great presentation and looking forward to hearing more. I was born in Ardattin a small village in the east of County Carlow. I was aware of Keogh but your background and detail is great. By the way for the correct pronunciation of Keogh you should think of it as one syllable and the gh is silent! Do you know about the other famous Carlow man who had a huge role in US history: Pierce Butler? Now there’s a story!
I will look up Pierce Butler!! Thanks for the pronunciation coaching! We'll see how I do in Part II 🤞😉🇮🇪
I like the part when Keough is under Stoneman, and the veterans are clearly jealous of his appearance and war record and shun him, until he leads them all in a successful cavalry charge.
Then, everyone lives him!😄
Me too!! It was a long excerpt to read allowed but it seemed to summarize so much about Keogh that I couldn't help myself.
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At the end of every June I visit the grave of Keogh in Auburn and leave something of a remembrance. I would like to visit the house of Custer’s in-laws on Howlett Hill but can not find the info about where it was exactly
That's beautiful. Thank you for remembering him. 🙏☘️
I don't know about Custer's in laws but I will ask around.
I've always been curious, and have walked the battlefield, whatever happened to all of the clothing, equipment of the 7th? We have other items available, from other conflicts, the Sioux, Cheyenne, and others took these parcels, what has happened to them?
I think there was a burn site to destroy materials so the tribes couldn't come back and use what was left behind. I believe it was just off the rifle pits a top Reno Benteen Hill.
At the later fight at Slim Buttes, a lot of personal 7th Cavalry items were seized.
These are really good questions. I will try to find out. Thanks so much for adding to the discussion here!
Did you say the picture was by Waud? I know he did a drawing of Bufors's line on 1st July and there is a picture of him sitting on a hill sketching. He came from South Wales and I have met a member of his family (not I think a direct descendent).
Yes Alfred Waud I believe!
He played the piano in the movie " they died with their boots on" with that rollicking tune. For bonus points what was that song? 🤠🤠🤠🎯
GARRYOWEN OF COURSE!! 🤣🙌🎶☘️
As in so many of the Custer officers at thd LBH, Miles seemed to have a taste for bad luck. I wonder, at the end, if he knew that his fearless leader was going to get them all killed, but has no choice but to follow orders. Look forward to the second instalment!
Keogh did have terrible luck. Or perhaps good luck, as so many of his closest friends died tragically too, during the Civil War and later. He outlived many of them.
My dad always said we were related to myles keogh. We are Keoghs from the same area . Blacksmiths and farriers. But I can’t trace my relatives so far back. I was wondering if you had more information about his Irish family? Thanks. Susan keogh
The book I show in the final slide has some family member information but I haven't gone any farther back than briefly looking up his parents.
The Irish Dragoon edited by Brian Pohanka is very good.
@@SiobhanFallon7 thankyou i have the book .
@susanmcglade3295 oh great! Susan, I'll see if I come across anything else 🙏
Thanks for reaching out and watching 💕🇮🇪
Are you related to Joe Fallon who was a civilian in the 66th Mi Group in 1981? I served under him.
I don't know... was he from Leitrim? My Dad is from Dromahaire.
But I think my grandfather only had sisters-- a nun and a nurse 🤔
You should have mentioned Trevelyan by name, his infamy (genocide?) in the famine deserves to be remembered. The song 'The Fields of Athanry' has become an unnoffical National Anthem and is sometimes played before the Six Nations rugby union matches (and the b******s keep beating us - I live in Wales).
I used to sing the Fields of Athanry to my daughters every night at bedtime as a lullaby. Put a little awareness of our dark history in them just like my parents did for me-- it is good for the soul 😉 🇮🇪🍀
The 98 leaders were both Catholic and Protestant
Thanks! 🇮🇪
Seems like fate kept trying to send Keogh some messages but he didn't get the memo.
Living on borrowed time maybe? So many times he could have died 😥
In my opinion the person's name is important. But well done. Do a podcast on the Catalpa Rescue of 1876 next. I've written a screenplay and only need about 25 million
dollars! Btw, we learned in Brooklyn that there were no survivors at the Battle of Little Big Horn...Hmm, I think there were 300 survivors
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I read a book about the Catalpa rescue many years ago and I remember saying to myself that it would make a great movie.
Do you or anyone reading this know which company Captain Nowlan commanded at the time? He had been snatched by Terry to serve on his staff and missed the battle. He would take over command of Company I following the battle. Also which company did Michael Sheridan technically belonged.
I asked my friend Dale, and he responded:
"Nowlan was regimental Quarter Master, so no company responsibility, like Cooke as Adj.
Mike Sheridan was Capt of L."
And more from my friend:
"Nowlan last served with Co in early 72 as1st Lt and Commanding L Co (with Mike Sheridan always on DS). Weston had been RQM before him and they swapped places, Nowlan joining regt HQ at Taylor Barracks in Louisville on Apr 7, '72."
@@SiobhanFallon7 Thanks alot. That also explains why he took over Company I. That had me puzzled.
Libbie Custer had a thing for Myles!!
🤣🤣🤣 why do you say that?
@@SiobhanFallon7 I have read a few volumes on the Custer's. The most recent..'Custers Trials' by T J Stiles.
There are many references to her preferring his company above all others.
Many photos where he posed always behind her with his hand on her shoulder.
He was handsome_ She was pretty
and the Plains life could be a lonely one, especially if your Husband was out there trying to be Caesar all the time.......
There are all of 2 photos of Keogh and Libbie together (and the same for Keogh and GAC too). Keogh's leaning on the back of her chair, not touching her, in one and seated several steps below her on the front porch of the Custer's home in the other.
@paulmcardle9542 I think Libbie was a very vivacious and charming woman and perhaps flirtatious. I haven't seen any evidence of a special friendship between herself and Keogh. Though he was quite handsome!
@@SiobhanFallon7 According to T J Stiles Book, Custer accused Mrs Custer of infidelity....( Field letters, Feb 1867)
and in 1869 accused her of having an affair ' with a certain mutual friend' at Leavenworth.