Analysing 19th Century Emigration, A Case Study: Dissecting One Irishman’s Letter Home

Irish in the American Civil War

As regular readers are aware, I have long been an advocate of the need to studythe thousands of Irish-American letters contained within the Civil War Widows & Dependent Pension Files. This unique resource offers insights into 19th Century Irish emigration that do not exist anywhere else. Their value to Irish, as well as American, history reaches far beyond our understanding of the Irish experience of the conflict itself. They have much to tell us about multipl...