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title	:	Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth : The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Irish in the Civil War, 1044-5315 ; No. 6
author	:	Guiney, Patrick R.; Samito, Christian G.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823218120
print isbn13	:	9780823218127
ebook isbn13	:	9780585199153
language	:	English
subject	Guiney, Patrick R.--(Patrick Robert),--1835-1877--Correspondence, United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1864) , United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pa
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	E513.5 9th.G85 1998eb
ddc	:	973.7/444
subject	:	Guiney, Patrick R.--(Patrick Robert),--1835-1877--Correspondence, United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1864) , United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pa

Page i Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth

Page ii Patrick R. Guiney as major or lieutenant colonel of the Ninth Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of College of the Holy Cross Rare Books Special Collections and Archives.

Page iii Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry edited by Christian G. Samito FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 1998

Page iv Copyright 1998 by Fordham University Press All rights reserved LC 97-38443 ISBN 0-8232-1812-0 ISSN 1044-5315 Irish in the Civil War, no. 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guiney, Patrick R. (Patrick Robert), 1835-1877. Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: the Civil War letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry/edited by Christian G. Samito. p. c.m.(Irish in the Civil War, ISSN 1044-5315: no. 6) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8232-1812-0 1. Guiney, Patrick R. (Patrick Robert), 1835-1877 Correspondence. 2. United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1864) 3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives. 4. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865 Participation, Irish American. 5. Boston (Mass.)HistoryCivil War, 1861-1865. 6. Irish AmericansMassachusettsBoston Correspondence. I. Samito, Christian G. II. Title. III. Series. E513.5 9th.G85 1998 97-38443 973.7'444dc21 CIP Printed in the United States of America

Page v Contents Series Editor's Preface vii Preface ix Prologue: The Drums of War xi 1861: "... a cause bright and grand as the Sun." 1 1862: "We are now engaged in war . The holidays are over ." 61 1863: "... the pain of separation from you draws heavily upon the heart-strings." 159 1864: "God gave me an opportunity... to shed my blood for our beloved Republic." 237 Epilogue: The Good Knight of Boston 249 Works Cited 265 Index

Page vii Series Editor's Preface It would be easy to stereotype the Irish experience in the Civil War. Most Irish-Americans in 1861 were poor, uneducated, urban-dwelling Catholics who had recently fled the horrors of famine Ireland. They voted overwhelmingly Democratic, opposed Lincoln's election, and had no sympathy with those who advocated rights for blacks. If they threw themselves into the war effort, their reasons for doing so were not those of the Lincoln administration. Yet such generalizations overlook important Irish actors in America's greatest drama. Christian Samito's edition of the letters of Col. Patrick Robert Guiney of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry vividly tells the story of one such Irishman. Colonel Guiney may have been typical in his Irish courage on the battlefield, but in most ways his story is distinctive. When the war began Guiney was a well-educated, successful Boston attorney. His law practice had allowed him to move to a comfortable suburb and to maintain his wife and young daughter in a style to which few recent Irish immigrants could aspire. Though he had previously been a Democrat, shortly after the war began he became a staunch supporter of Lincoln and the Republicans. Unlike most Irishmen in the army he criticized Democratic generals like McClellan who did not press the enemy hard enough. He entertained far more liberal views on racial issues than most Irishmen and he openly welcomed the end of slavery. His outspoken support for the Republican prosecution of the war not only separated him from the Irish community in Boston; it set many of the men in his own regiment against him. Guiney's story is a valuable reminder that the Civil Warand even the comparatively narrow slice of the Irish role in the warwas much more complex than popular legend would have it. Postwar memoirs and regimental histories often conveniently forgot about the war's cowards and shirkers, just as they often passed silently over episodes of trouble within the regiments. But stories of heroes and sacrifice, of unity and comradeship, tell only

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