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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
er of the young Colonel, served with distinction in the West Indies as an officer of the British army, and afterwards retired on half pay. In that period the British Government rigidly selected the officers of the army from aristocratic circles. Colonel Corcoran entered the Irish constabulary at the age of 19, and continued in that service till he attained his 22d year. He was then stationed at Creeslough, in the county of Donegal, in the North of Ireland — a locality celebrated for its Orange fends and bitter hostility to the Roman Catholic faith, of which Colonel Corcoran was a member.--No locality could have been more favorable to impress a young and ardent mind with hostility to British institutions, as the obsolete privileges and customs of days when the word and not the Gospel was made the means of publishing religion were resumed by the Orangement, on the anniversary of the defeat of papal armies in by-gone centuries — a course which naturally created the most intense hatre