THE CIVIL WAR CONTINUES TO FASCINATE HISTORIANS AND 
GENERAL READERS.

    Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the 
important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous 
time in our nation's history. Two new books, focusing on the 
participation of Irish immigrants in both the Union and Confederate 
armies, add to this growing area of knowledge.

    While the famed fighting prowess of the Irish Brigade at Antietam 
and Gettysburg is well known, in God Help the Irish! historian 
Phillip T. Tucker emphasizes the lives and experiences of the 
individual Irish soldiers fighting in the ranks of the Brigade, supplying 
a better understanding of the Irish Brigade and why it became one 
of the elite combat units of the Civil War.

    The axiom that the winners of wars write the histories is especially 
valid in regard to the story of the Irish who fought for the Confederacy 
from 1861–1865. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Irish 
Confederates made invaluable contributions to all aspects of the war 
effort. Yet, the Irish have largely been the forgotten soldiers of the 
South. In Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers,
Tucker illuminates these overlooked participants.

    Together, the two books provide a full picture of the roles Irish 
soldiers played in the Civil War.


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PHILLIP THOMAS TUCKER, winner of the Douglas Southall 
Freeman Award in 1993, has written fifteen books on Civil War, 
Irish, and African American history. He is an historian for the United 
States Air Force in Washington, D.C., and lives in Upper Marlboro, 
Maryland.


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"4 stars. . . . very readable . . . This book is highly recommended to
Civil War enthusiasts and those interested in Irish American history 
or culture."—Curled Up with a Good Book, www.curledup.com


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