Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865

by Damian Shiels

Damian Shiels's 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 Union's 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 duties from multiple perspectives, including how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807183709
• ISBN13: 9780807183700
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 330 Pages