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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wounded prisoners. (search)
ear that Trute was a resident of St. Catherine, Canada West, and that he had been induced to enlist in the Yankee army upon the promise made by some one in authority that after the "crushing out" of the rebellion the Federalists were to liberate Ireland. A part of the programme was to seize and annex Canada to the Northern Union. It further appears from the letters that a secret association was formed at the North called the Phœnix Society, the object of which was to promote the cause of liberating Ireland by the agency of the Yankees. The soldier's sister, named Jane writes him a very sensible letter, in which she deplores his "listing," and sincerely regrets his joining the secret society, which is against the discipline of the Catholic Church. "We are all Irish," says she and would be proud to see you risk your life for Ireland, if necessary; but not your immortal soul. I would think the Irishman who would give utterance to such language (some radicalism, no doubt, in the