Civil War - Union Army "Irish Brigade" - A Short History
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No one fights and dies like us Irish , when a friend or family member dies there wake isn’t sad but full of laughs remembering good times .
I love you my friend
Amen and Erin go bragh
Lineage of County Kerry, born in Chicago, and well traveled throughout the USA, I've come to realize the post flood Irish are Basque lineage, remaining most prevalent in those from Counties Kerry and Cork. The trait most commonly known is Rh(-) Bloodtype.
The Irish, and Ireland, has a history heavily faded by the focus of Patrick and those whom followed that was intent on abolishing their spiritual practices and the traditions and history knowledge that was woven through the same.
Produced stoeores in books and film depict the Irish as a superstitious and unintelligent lot, this is inaccurate and to further confuse the greater realities of the facts and history.
Much yet to accomplish through research, but I assure the reader, this decade has a plethora of facts emerging that will enlighten the Collective on Human History and the Irish will find a most surprising account of "Who we were and Who we are."
Best advise: use Conscious Thoughts and applied Higher Mind. Avoid living through the Ego-Mind, reacting to the baits and life stimuli, as it allows for others to control the individual.
Learn the "Universal Law of Attraction" and keep it in Conscious Thought.
This allows for the intended Life Journey Experiences.
Best Wellbeing ...
True that I'm from country cork and normally ends up in a bust up after a few beers isnt a family funeral without a punch up 😂
You Irish are the Greeks of the North. We dance around our deads.
The Irish had nothing when they came to America but dignity and determination they had to struggle to survive So far from home away from their loving family they created their own family.Such a proud lot.
Well 400,000 Irish fought in the civil war for the union side, I would say the majority where Irish-Americans born in Boston and New york.
Craig Patrick Mclnerney Ay tis true
What is not mentioned is that religious prejudice against Irish CATHOLICS. They were a breed apart from the Scots-Irish of Ulsters, who were Presbyterians, although subject also to mistreatment by the the English crown, and also very anti-Catholic. All Irish, of course, suffered from the famine and many of them were transported by a Government that found it cheaper to exile them from their homes rather than feed them where they lived, or even on poor farms. When they arrived in America, even formerly self-sufficient Irish families had been reduced to poverty, sometimes having little more than the clothes on their back, and if not having family in American suffering greatly. BUT American protestant rule was better than British rule, and so they laid down roots and bent their backs as much as any black laborer, free OR slave.
@@JRobbySh
Penned beautifully......
Thank you Judy!
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 remember millions of Irish immigrant came in the 1850s and 1840s because of the potatoe famine alot of the irish in the civil war were from Ireland but instead kept moving west building the railroads quite a honorable people
My 3rd great-grandfather was a German immigrant in Philadelphia. He volunteered into the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry, Irish Volunteers in 1863 and fought shoulder to shoulder with the Irish lads during Pickett's Charge. Respect to my Irish brothers.
Two of my 3rd great grandfathers also volunteered and fought in the Philadelphia Irish Brigade one in the 69th the other in the 71st. Both were on the front in gettysburg with their brothers in arms, holding the line at the angle, during picketts charge. I come from a long line of immigrants who served in the military. The actions of the Pennsylvania Irish fill me with such an overwhelming and resounding sense of pride in knowing my ancestors held the line and turned the rebels back.
Most Americans are German Irish mix
Yr dads grandfathers grandfather lol
I'm canadian and My 3rd and 4th great grandfather's (father and son) both fought in the Civil war 4th was born in Ireland 3rd In newfoundland he was with the 141 n.y.s.i
Respect back to you my friend from Ireland 🇮🇪 👏
This is one of the many reasons I was 100% PROUD when my Ancestry DNA revealed I'm 16% Irish. The Irish are the kindest people you will ever meet, but the fiercest fighters. My kind of people.
Callahan clan here. Fought on the Indiana 36 and 69 brigades. 🇺🇲🦅🐢🐟⚔️⚖️
I'm Irish and proud of every immigrant that fought to preserve the union.
Respect for the Irish ☘️ Brigade
In some ways, the Irish, the Scots, the Poles seem to be kindred spirits.
I have both Irish and German in my ancestry. I love learning these parts of history. Wonderful people!
Im Native German and still i live in germany. Nice to See so many men from america with German Roots. Guter Mann
And so the old saying goes "our men die in your wars" the Irish are truly the ultimate warriors both honourable and having the dying passion for freedom.
They are a big part of the reason America is as great as it is. Love Ireland, proud it's in my heritage.
It really is kinda sad that many if the Irish emigrates to America to escape that horrific conditions of the patato famine and to seek a better life in the US. And then soon after a lot of these young Irish boys would be caught up in the bloodiest war in American history where so many of them would die and suffer through the horrors of war. The Irish really are not the the luckier people.
The Celts of various sorts gave a lot to the creation of the British Empire. They had first of all, of course, to be conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, being the descendants of the Britons whom Caesar had met own the shore, and then conquered by Claudius nearly a century later.
Well us Irish would need to get that passion back now,otherwise we will be destroyed by globalism,through a trojan horse called the EU.
@@paullooney8960 vote for the national party
long live the true irish spirit from my family to all the irish family's out there
"No Irish help needed."
Without us the war would've ended very differently
Battle to be fought!!
Irish help needed!!!
The Union won because they had more Irish.
Mr. Pete Channel needs 800 subbies! That about sums it up 👊🏼
@@edcarson3113I forgot who said it but some confederate general ( I think ) literally said that at a reunion.
My great-grandfather John O'Reilly traveled from Ireland to America to volunteer to make horseshoes for the union army. He stayed for one year, and then returned to Ireland.
Love it, was he from derry? lol must ha e really hated Britain
@@sourdiesel2314 County Cavan. I don't know about him, but my maternal Grandmother did. lol!
A Fellow O'Reilly warms my heart.
I did 2 combat tours in Afghanistan and il tell u this. Not one O’Malley. Lynch. Connor, dempsey or o’neil ever bitched out
Can confirm, Irish Brigade was a great fighting force.
Don't need your confirmation !
@adambane1719 You may not need confirmation but you do need some some curtesy.
*The difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral:* _one more bottle, one less guest._ (Anonymous, credited to Mr William Bulger, ex-President of the University of Massachusetts, by me)
Nobody more fearless than the Irish
The Mongols, the Japanese ... to name a couple
You say Thomas Francis Meagher is shot from his horse on the battle field with no follow up. He wasn't killed that day, but lived beyond the war becoming acting governor of Montana before dying under suspicious circumstances in 1867 on the Missouri River, Fort Benton, Montana
That's why civil war was also known as Poor's man's war
Yup poor people in the north would have the fight instead of a rich man who could pay off his draft notice while in the south it was poor people fighting for rich plantation owners that just wanted to secede to protect their slavery interests
Not in the South. The slaveowner class went to battle themselves and sent their sons as well. As a group the richest men in American in 1860. But the gold they had piled up were lost to them. One of those wars in which the upper class did suffer as much as the people.
Judy S. Even if your statement wasn't a vague over simplification , do you actually think there were 1,000,000 slave owners in the south?
In reality, even if every slave over had 10 sons, that wouldn't even be near a million.
I, for one, think the riches built upon the scarred backs of the enslaved was rightfully lost. The upper class did not suffer, they got what they deserved, if only more of them actually fought in the war they could've lost their lives as well.
The 69th Pennsylvania yelled: “Remember Fredericksburg.” As if to tell the Rebels, that this was their Fredericksburg.
When they pushed back Pickett’s charge.
And for all that fighting , catholic's were still looked down on and distrusted in the US
From the Spring of 1862 until January of 1863 the Irish Brigade had the 29th Massachusetts assigned as its 4th regiment. This period included its service at Antietam. The 29th Mass. was a predominately "Yankee" regiment and they did not take to being brigaded with the Irish. In January of 1863 the 29th Mass. was transferred form The Army of the Potomac to The Department of the Ohio. The 29th was replaced in the Irish Brigade with the 28th Massachusetts, which as the documentary correctly points out was made up almost exclusively of Irish immigrants who had settled in Boston.
In the only intra-corps exchange of regiments during the war, the 29th Mass went to 9th Corps, and the 28th Mass. went to the Irish Brigade, 2nd Corps. This was in November, 1862, and the 28th was the only Irish Brigade regiment to have a Green Flag at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
My great-grandfather fought with the Irish Brigade as a soldier in the 29th Massachusetts, including at Antietam. Not even mentioning the 29th is serious oversight.
The 28th Mass. was intended to be in the Irish Brigade to begin with but the recruitment was taking too long. Meagher had been promised a 4th regiment for the upcoming campaign so the upper command simply swapped in the 29th Mass. on the understanding that it would be exchanged for the 28th when it was ready. Instead the 28th would end up getting assigned to the 9th Corps for several months, serving along the Carolina coast and at 2nd Manassas. When the 9th Corps joined the Army of the Potomac for the Maryland campaign Meagher promptly reminded his superiors that the 28th was supposed to be his regiment but the exchange wouldn't occur until after Antietam.
I hope y'all release a video on Hood's Texas Brigade!
I'd honestly love to write some film scripts revolving around the big 3 Brigades of the American Civil War.
The Irish Brigade, The Iron Brigade, and the Texas Brigade.
The incompetent Burnside wasted them up against that wall in Fredericksburg. Respectfully ... it's pronounced Ma-her btw :)
I NEVER want to hear an American disrespect us in any way EVER again
Sir Americans don't disrespect us Irish, Only the uneducated United States citizen
We Irish have left our mark on every Continent.
70 million people worldwide claim Irish
Ancestry to the whole of the Island.
Irish citizen
@@derekmulready1523 true I spose but 1 out of every 3 Americans I've come across or seen/heard speak have been ignorant and said things blindly like its ok or there's nothing wrong with it, anyone with common sense would know such things aren't OK to be said
What? Who are these Americans you are talking about? You realize, don't you, that there are tens of millions of Americans of Irish descent? Are they the Americans you speak of? If anything, there seems to be a noticeable strain of Irish who disrespect Americans, especially Irish-Americans. I have no idea why.
@@ronaldcammarata3422 oh a lot of Americans do, and what annoys us is that we're the main reason for the numbers in America and the Irish did a lot of the manual labour in building America, the reason so many Irish disrespect is because of what I just said but also because a fair amount of ye are way too patriotic
I, an American, respect Irishmen to the fullest and everyone I know also does. I personally never met an Irishmen, but if they are as rude as you are I hope I never do.
The Irish fought on both sides of the civil war. You’ll never beat the fighting Irish 💚🇮🇪 especially Britain. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace ✊🇮🇪💚🍀
‘The Immortal Irishman’ by Timothy Egan is an epic bio of Meagher and The Irish Brigade.
p.s. Shout out Shane Gillis for recommending this book!!!
Why do they call them the Fighting Irish.
There ya have it
My great grandfather 3 times ovet fought for louisiana in the battle of Frederickburg. Fighting tiger brigade of louisiana did well and was the only unit to break the line at Gettysburg but eventually couldn't hold the position.
I was in the Louisiana Guard the 769th heavy engineer battalion, that had streamers from campaigns in the Northern Virginia battles.
Because they were not re-inforced, A huge opportunity wasted. Westerners were among the fiercest fighters for both north and south. The Wisconsin “Iron Brigade” was one of the best units for the Army of the Potomac. Arguably they kept the Confederates from sweeping the Federal troops from the field and they took huge losses standing toe to toe with the best of the Confederates.
It's a shame us Scots never had our own brigade, I don't doubt for a minute we'd of ended up trying to out do each other.
Cheers to the Irish laddies across the pond.
79th New York - Highlanders
@@robertmclernon4836 I just checked out their engagements and boy did they see some action
More than 200,000 native Germans that were originally born in Germany served in the Union Army and helped to preserve the USA. Only very few served the CSA, because most Germans preferred the Union. Their role is allmost forgotten and never honored.
Der Volksfreund while the South were originally from Scotland. And Ireland. Dixie Land. Is Ireland Land.
TheFatLazyasscat nope the south was mainly made up of scotch-irish and English. Get your facts straight!
Cap America that’s what I said idiot
24 native Germans were decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honer.
@@fireextinguisherr1 Scotch-Irish isn't true Irish... they are Huns
A third of Washington's army was Irish
Proud to be Irish.
We don't die easy.
In Death We Live ☘
69.
The holy number.
im and irish and proud to be there was great men on both sides and yes great germans French polish scots other races who fought and give there lives to the cause the believed in
Americans were too don't forget :)
You guys should do a video on the 101st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, rather interesting.
Love it a lot because My last name means dark haired Irish man in Gaelic
They don't call us the fighting Irish for nothing we have fought under many of flags but always an opportunity to stick it them them brits has always been a must for 800yrs strong never backing down
Rule one don't piss off the irish
These videos are excellent!!
IRELAND!!
My great grandfather x2 company I 8 alabama emerald guards. Faugh a ballagh
This channel is great
Can you guys do a video on the 2nd Colorado volunteer infantry???(ford's independent company)
For all the great gaels of Ireland,Are the men who god made mad,For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad
About their actions at Antietam, the Irish Brigade was armed with smoothbore muskets instead of rifled muskets, so their advance to within fifty yards was necessary in order to come to grips with the Confederates in the Sunken Road.
At. Gen. Meaghar's insistence the 8 line companies of each NY regiment in the brigade were issued the .69 caliber M1842 Springfield. Meagher assumed his brigade would perform most fighting at close range where smoothbores were most effective, especially when using "buck and ball" type ammunition, and his officers generally agreed. The 6 "light companies" (2 from each regiment) were issued either Springfield or Enfield rifled muskets. These 6 companies were often detached to form a "light battalion" and used for skirmishing duty. The 116th Pennsylvania was also issued the Springfield M1842 smoothbore musket. The 28th Massachusetts was issued .58 Caliber Enfield rifled muskets by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The NY and PA regiments would carry the smoothbore muskets until mid 1864 when the depleated brigade was temporarily sidelined. The 116th PA was eventually issued .58 caliber M1861 Springfield rifled musket. Ordinance records show that at about the same time all of the NY regiments were also issued more modern Springfield or Enfield rifled muskets.
@@lump2202 At the Gettysburg angle, the Irishmen had their smoothbores. Often two or three per man. As they rose up and fired their buck and ball at the rebels the carnage was horrific as the southerners were torn to pieces. Pickets charge was broken.
Did not know that.
WHERE ARE THE POLISH CAVALRY FROM NEW YORK?
Lineage of County Kerry, born in Chicago, and well traveled throughout the USA, I've come to realize the post flood Irish are Basque lineage, remaining most prevalent in those from Counties Kerry and Cork. The trait most commonly known is Rh(-) Bloodtype.
The Irish, and Ireland, has a history heavily faded by the focus of Patrick and those whom followed that was intent on abolishing their spiritual practices and the traditions and history knowledge that was woven through the same.
Produced stoeores in books and film depict the Irish as a superstitious and unintelligent lot, this is inaccurate and to further confuse the greater realities of the facts and history.
Much yet to accomplish through research, but I assure the reader, this decade has a plethora of facts emerging that will enlighten the Collective on Human History and the Irish will find a most surprising account of "Who we were and Who we are."
Best advise: use Conscious Thoughts and applied Higher Mind. Avoid living through the Ego-Mind, reacting to the baits and life stimuli, as it allows for others to control the individual.
Learn the "Universal Law of Attraction" and keep it in Conscious Thought.
This allows for the intended Life Journey Experiences.
Best Wellbeing ...
I appreciated this video! Can anyone say who the narrator is? Thanks.
We have Kelly’s Irish brigade in the south
And the 10th Tennessee
And the 24th Georgia it was also an Irish regiment.
Brett Farley those men took on the fighting 69th
@@aidanc4757 And yet those men still showed valor for their land as well. I credit my Irish brethren on both sides who fought gallantly and like true irishmen. Whether they be blue or gray they did their duties to the best of their abilities.
Brett Farley for sure faugh a ballagh
Damn thought this was about the 24th irish voluteers, csa, but ok ill watch it
LONG LIVE THE UNION !!!
The irish ❤
🍀
Nice video, but the name Meagher is pronounced "Marr," not "Ma-harr."
Yep, I came here to say this. "General Meagher to us he said, If you get shot or lose your legs..." - "Meagher" has one syllable.
There were irish brigades on both sides
If i had been in the Irish Brigade in Infantry hopefully Calvary so tat i may cut through the lines of Johnny Reb violently but like a surgion with my Sabor and pistol me and my Calvary unit will mow them down like grass. Or as an infantry Riflemen take cover and start taking out there officers Soldiers and basically Sniping Johnny Reb beyond reconition you Southern Boys are not the only Sharpshooters
Ma-Haar jaysus. 😭😭😭
I'm German and sweede by blood line
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The 69th.... lol nice
You want what might be another "strange occurrence" in the days before and during the Civil War...in 1860 the governor of Wisconsin DISARMED an Irish regiment in Milwaukee because he had plans to secede from the Union if the Federal Government did NOT end slavery across the country. He was afraid the Irish Regiment would side with the Federal Government (since they made no bones about being against the freeing of Black slaves in the South who would compete with the Irish for jobs) and actually fight against Wisconsin in it's OWN Civil War with the government.
Lets get a source on this
Have you done a video on the Confederate Irish brigade’s ?
so they had tooo. not like the volunteers for the south . sounds like consrption to me
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