Contents
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. BEGINNINGS
The duel that almost changed history
Witness to the first shots
The Irish at Sumter
Facing the first battle
Recruiting for the Irish Brigade
Following them home
2. REALITIES
A Yankee and Rebel at Antietam
Slaughter in Saunders’ Field
Blood on the banner
Death of a General
The last to fall
An Irishman in Andersonville
3. THE WIDER WAR
Killed by his own
Confederates in Ireland
The Queenstown Affair
The Civil War with canvas and camera
Jennie Hodgers and Albert Cashier
The Irish ‘Florence Nightingales’
4. AFTERMATH
Mingle my tears
The price of gallantry
Hunting Lincoln’s killer
The passage of years
Back to the stone wall
Epilogue
Notes
Copyright