Last Letters Home: Revealing the Pension File Correspondence of Union Irish Soldiers & Their Families

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

Over recent years I have been compiling a database of those widows’ and dependents pension files which contain primary correspondence from Irish and Irish-American soldiers and their families. As regular readers are aware, these letters feature frequently on the site, but I have only been in a position to share a handful of the 100s I have come across. Having recently been invited to deliver a lecture to the American Civil War Round Table...