The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Susannah Ural Bruce - UA) brass Provost marshals fanned out across

Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond

including the Battle of Hastings

Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action―in the western territories

Thurgood Marshall

DeEtta Almon

The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Susannah Ural Bruce - UA) brass Provost marshals fanned out acrossby Susannah Ural On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; military, church, and diplomatic records; and community newspapers, Susannah Ural Bruce significantly expands the story of Irish American Catholics in the Civil War, and reveals a complex picture of those who fought for the Union. While the