Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth by Christian G. Samito - 9780823218134

Commanding Boston's Irish NinthThe Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.\nAuthor(s): Christian G. Samito\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823218134, 978-0823218134\nSynopsis\nChristian Samito writes in his introduction: \""In reading Guiney's words, one can have a fuller appreciation of what motivated civilians to volunteer to fight a war and of the privations they suffered in service to their country.\"" \n These are the collected Civil War letters of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant from Country Tipperary who relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out, Guiney volunteered to defend the Union and, quickly rose from First Lieutenant to Colonel, to command the ninth Massachusetts regiment. A fervent supporter of Lincoln and passionately opposed to slavery, Guiney felt that, in his service to his new country, he was doing hi.