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There were many Irish on oth sides in the ACW. The 69th New York being one famous, very Irish and very Roman Catholic regiment on the Union side. The 10th Tennessee of the CSA is an interesting one, bearing in mind the tribal factions fomenting in the Ireland they left behind, that were to really take effect in the revolutionary period a generation later: the men of the tenth were, broadly speaking, Irish Catholics, while the officer class Protestant.... and elected by the men. Of course, it really only was into the beginning of the twentieth century that these religious labels started to be noticeably attached to one side or the other, many nineteenth century Irish rebels / freedom fighters (delete according to personal politics.... ) being protestant in point of fact (see the United Irishmen and their rising of 1798, Wolfe Tone et al)
The Fighting 69th (Union)
[video=youtube;eWvdf_51Iq0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvdf_51Iq0[/video]
Kelly's Irish Brigade (Confederate)
[video=youtube;W0Yr3BsEw6A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Yr3BsEw6A[/video]