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title	:	Irish Green and Union Blue : The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers
author	:	Welsh, Peter.; Kohl, Lawrence Frederick.; Richard, Margaret Coss.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823211649
print isbn13	:	9780823211647
ebook isbn13	:	9780585161419
language	:	English
subject	United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 28th, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Irish.
publication date	:	1986
lcc	:	E601.W37 1986eb
ddc	:	973.7/83
subject	:	United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 28th, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Irish.

Page i Irish Green and Union Blue

Page ii Peter Welsh in the dress uniform of an Irish Brigade sergeant Photo: R. A. Lewis, 152 Chatham Street, New York City, ca. March 1864

Page iii Irish Green and Union Blue The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh Color Sergeant 28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl with Margaret Coss Richard

Page iv Copyright 1986 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved. LC 86-80619 ISBN 0-8232-1163-0 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8232-1164-9 (paperback) Fourth printing, 1999 Welsh, Peter. Irish Green and Union Blue : the Civil War letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers / edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl with Margaret Coss Richard. New York : Fordham University Press, 1986. 170 p. : ill. Includes index. ISBN 0-8232-1163-0 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8232-1164-9 (paperback) 1. United StatesHistory Civil War, 1861-1865Personal narratives. 2. Welsh, PeterCorrespondence. 3. United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 28th (1861-1865)Biography. I. Title. E601 .W37 1986 86-80619 973.73 W PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE HARRY J. SIEVERS, S.J. MEMORIAL PUBLISHING FUND Printed in the United States of America

Page v CONTENTS Abbreviations and Short Titles vii Acknowledgments xi Preface Margaret Coss Richard xiii Chronology xxi Introduction Lawrence Frederick Kohl 1 The Letters 1862 "We Advanced Boldly Despite It All" 15 1863 "Is This Not Worth Fighting For?" 49 1864 "We Licked Saucepans Out of Them" 141 Epilogue 157 Engagements of the 28th Massachusetts 159 Index 161 Illustrations between Pages 106and 107 Map Page 160

Page vii ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES Appletons' Cyclopaedia Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: Appleton, 1888). Athearn, Meagher Robert G. Athearn, Thomas Francis Meagher: An Irish Revolutionary in America (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1949). Boatner, Dictionary Mark Mayo Boatner III, The Civil War Dictionary (New York: McKay, 1959) Catton, Army of the Potomac Bruce Catton, The Army of the Potomac, 3 vols., I: Mr. Lincoln's Army; II: Glory Road; III: A Stillness at Appomattox (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 195153). Conyngham, Irish Brigade D. P. Conyngham, The Irish Brigade (New York: McSorley, 1867). DAB Dictionary of American Biography, 20 vols., Index, Suppls. (New York: Scribners, 1928). Fox, Regimental Losses William F. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 18611865 (Albany: Albany Publishing Co., 1889). Germain, Catholic Chaplains Aidan Henry Germain, Catholic Military and Naval Chaplains, 17761917 (Washington, D.C., 1929).

Page viii Hernon, Celts Joseph M. Hernon, Jr., Celts, Catholics & Copperheads: Ireland Views the American Civil War (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968). Livermore, Numbers & Losses Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America: 186165 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957).

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