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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Old South. (search)
ce complimented for their gallantry some Irish troops in our service, and I modestly claimed that I had Irish blood in my own veins. But as I had broken up some barrels of whiskey a short time before, they would not own me, and I heard that they said: Af the owld hapocrit had one dhrop of Irish blood in his veins, he would never have smashed whaskey as he did. Then there were in the Federal Army Russians, Austrians, Hungarians, Slavs, Magyars, and Teutons alike-Scandinavians, Englishmen, Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Canadians, and the inhabitants of the far-off isles of the sea. I think, then, that it is true that the seceded States and the border slave-holding States gave more native-born soldiers to the Union army than did the North give of her native-born sons to that army. Surely, then, General Sherman was mistaken in saying that the Civil War was a war of races, the South against the North. This is hardly fair to Farragut and Thomas and their gallant