Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) Section - Human Interest The Cacophony of Politics charts

The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War

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this book details their attempts to resume productive lives in the aftermath of America's defining cataclysm

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 (Damian Shiels - UA) Section - Human Interest The Cacophony of Politics chartsby Damian Shiels (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series Editor) Damian Shielss Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank and file soldiers drawn from across the Unions armed forces. Using a vast and largely untapped collection of letters penned by Irish American combatants to their families during the war, Shiels explains how these enlisted men navigated their