Introduction: The Irish in the American Civil War

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Notes

1. Words are anonymous. Music by Hiram T. Merrill. Both are available at: http://www.19thusregulars.com/html/take_your_gun_and_go__john.html

2. ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’ was sung, like ‘Take Your Gun and Go, John’, by both sides, with lyrics appropriate to each persuasion. It was written by Irish-American bandleader Patrick Gilmore, who published under the pseudonym ‘Louis Lambert’. For more on ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’, see Lomax, The Folksongs of North America, 84, 96.

3. Culpepper and Adams, ‘Nursing in the Civil War’, 982; Leonard, ‘Catholic Sisters and Nursing in the Civil War’, 65–81.

4. A symposium organized by Ayres and entitled ‘America on the Eve of the Civil War’ took place at the University of Richmond, Virginia, in 2009. It is to be followed by five annual events on related topics, all being planned by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. For more, see Blight, ‘The Civil War Sesquicentennial’.