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The mutual respect between the Irish and the 116th was certainly founded on their shared bravery and suffering during the campaigns from Fredericksburg to Petersburg, but it no doubt also owed something to the remarkable Irish colonel, St. Clair A. Mulholland.
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The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion Irish in the Civil War, 1044-5315 ; No. 5
author
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Mulholland, St. Clair A.; Kohl, Lawrence Frederick.
publisher
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Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0823216063
print isbn13
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9780823216062
ebook isbn13
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9780585195360
language
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English
subject
United States.--Army.--Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 116th (1862-1865) , Mulholland, St. Clair A.--(St. Clair Augustin),--1839-1910, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimen
publication date
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1996
lcc
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E527.5 116th.M85 1996eb
ddc
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973.7/448/092
subject
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United States.--Army.--Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 116th (1862-1865) , Mulholland, St. Clair A.--(St. Clair Augustin),--1839-1910, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimen
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Irish In the Civil War Lawrence Frederick Kohl, series editor
1. 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
2. Memoirs of Chaplain Life Three Years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac By William Corby Edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl
3. An Irishman in the Iron Brigade The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan, Sergt., Company K, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers By William J. K. Beaudot and Lance J. Herdegen
4. The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns By D. P. Conyngham Edited, with an Introduction, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl
5. The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion By St. Clair A. Mulholland Edited, with an Introduction, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl
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ST. CLAIR MULHOLLAND, HISTORIAN OF THE 116TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS (COURTESY CIVIL WAR LIBRARY AND MUSEUM [CWLM], PHILADELPHIA, PA.).
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The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers: In the War of the Rebellion
by St. Clair A. Mulholland
Edited, with an Introduction, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl
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Copyright 1996 by Fordham University Press
All rights reserved
LC 95-39243
ISBN 0-8232-1606-3
ISSN 1044-5315
Irish in the Civil War, no. 5
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mulholland, St. Clair A. (St. Clair Augustin), 18391910. The story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion / by St. Clair A. Mulholland ; edited, with an introduction, by Lawrence Frederick Kohl. p. cm. (Irish in the Civil War, ISSN 1044-5315 ; no. 5) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-1606-3 1. United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 116th (18621865) 2. Mulholland, St. Clair A. (St. Clair Augustin), 18391910. 3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865 Regimental histories. 4. PennsylvaniaHistoryCivil War, 18611865Regimental histories. 5. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Participation, Irish American. 6. United States HistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narratives. 7. Irish AmericansPennsylvaniaHistory19th century. I. Kohl, Lawrence E527.5 116th.M85 1995 973.7'4748'092dc20 [B] 95-39243 CIP
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might found a nation. Our army fought to preserve and secureeven to those whom they strived to conquerthe rights and liberties that they themselves hoped to enjoy. Our soldiers fought to preserve that great legacymore dear and valuable than all else gained by the sword on earththe first real Republic that has ever existed; to demonstrate that human freedom was not a myth and a dream, but a splendid reality; to preserve intact, for all men who love liberty, that vast territory over which our flag floats, the glorious land that stretches from the storm-swept coasts of the Atlantic to the golden shores of the Pacific, that reaches from the frozen lands of Alaska to the orange groves of sunny Floridathe land that will, in the boundless future, shelter in its bosom so many happy homes and countless millions of freemen.
The Army of the Union fought to keep alive that sacred torch of human liberty which burns brighter and more brilliantly as the years roll on, and which is indeed destined to illumine the world and shine with so resplendent a glory as to teach all, even the most benighted of nations, that men can live in peace, purity and honor without being subjects; that the laws for the well-being and happiness of society can be well and wisely administered by the servants of a people who will not tolerate masters. It is the history of a gallant regiment, composed of these men, that I propose to record.
But how many volumes it would take to tell the history of a regiment of more than a thousand noble men! The naming of the brave deeds of any one of them would,
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of itself, fill many glowing pages. Space, necessarily limited, will not suffice to allow justice being done to the individualI can only write of the organization, of the marches, trials, triumphs and sufferings of the members as a body; record the glories in which all were alike participants; live over again the days of victory, and hear again the inspiring cheers of the victors, as they rushed over the works of the foe or hurled them back in defeat; of other days, when disaster, rather than victory, was our lot, and when, maybe, our lines were forced back, leaving the ground strewn with dead and woundedour well-loved companions; of the midnight march and
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