The Harp and the Eagle cuts to the chase and explains the Irish involvement with the American Civil War.
Susannah Ural Bruce is very articulate and she fully explains the various reasons that the Irish people joined the Union Army. The Irish were trying to prove their loyality to their new country. They also were learning how to fight as a military force so that they could liberate Ireland from English rule. In the end, they were so brave, that they were destroyed as a fighting force in the titanic battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. The Irish Brigade will always be remembered as the bravest of the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. They were equaled by few and excelled by none. All Irish people can be proud of their ancestors that fought in the Irish Brigade.
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