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The Immortal Irishman

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by Timothy Egan


  Copperheads, 213, 290–91

  Corby, William

  at Antietam, 224

  on burials in Seven Days Battles, 210

  on deserters, 233

  at Fredericksburg, 239–40

  on Fredericksburg, 244

  on Libby Meagher, 229

  on Meagher, 197–98

  return of to Notre Dame, 266

  on steeplechase, 202

  on St. Patrick’s Day festival, 248–49

  Corcoran, Michael, 135–36, 171

  captured, 184, 185, 189

  in Civil War, 175

  in Confederate prison, 201

  first actions, 180–88

  released from prison, 230

  death of, 258–59

  in Fenians, 258

  refusal of to march in parade, 167–68

  Cork, Ireland, food riots, 41–42

  Costa Rica, 168

  Costigan, Giovanni, 9

  cotton gin, 165–66

  Couchet, Frenchy, 296

  Cover, Thomas, 300

  Cromwell, Oliver, 4, 5, 9–10, 12, 71

  Crow, 289

  Currier and Ives, 205, 213

  Custis, Martha, 199

  D

  Daly, Charles P., 135

  Daly, Marcus, 309

  Daniels, James B., 283–86, 284, 298

  Darwin, Charles, 94

  Davis, Jefferson, 171

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 227, 231

  on Fort Sumter, 173

  imprisoned, 265

  Lee appointed by, 206–7

  peace rejected by, 259

  Davis, Thomas, 27–28, 34, 69

  Death Feast, 240–41, 245–46, 248

  Declaration of Independence, 15–16, 143, 161

  Delmonico’s, 173, 245

  Democratic Party, 143

  Copperheads, 213, 290

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 227, 242–43

  on equal rights, 261–62

  Meagher urged to run for Senate delegate, 301

  in presidential campaign of 1856, 162–63, 169–70

  in presidential campaign of 1860, 261

  Denison, William, 92–93

  Balfe and, 109–10

  crackdown by, 116

  on Meagher’s escape, 119

  newspaper campaign against, 109

  removed from Tasmania, 127

  response of to escape attempts, 101

  against self-government, 114–15

  on Smith O’Brien, 96–97

  Young Irelanders punished by, 107–8

  De Smet, Pierre-Jean, 142, 282

  Diamond, Frank, 313–14

  Dickens, Charles, 132, 133

  “Die Is Cast, The” (Speranza), 69, 78

  Dillon, John Blake, 69–70, 71, 79–80, 135–36

  Dimsdale, Thomas J., 271, 278, 280, 291

  Doggett’s Directory, 134

  Donovan, John, 213, 219

  Doran, John, xi–xii, xv, 303–5, 313

  Douglas, Stephen, 161, 169–70

  Douglass, Frederick

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 244–45

  in Ireland, 33

  on the Irish as slaves, 147

  on Irish attitudes toward slavery, 166–67

  draft riots, 250–55

  Dred Scott decision, 160–61, 169

  Drogheda, Ireland, 9–10

  Dublin

  English power around, 7

  English troops in, 27

  habeas corpus suspended in, 294

  Kennedy in, 315, 317–19

  Meagher’s law studies in, 26–27, 29

  rebellion squelched in, 59–60

  Dublin Citizen, 200

  Duffy, Charles Gavan, 30

  arrested, 45–46, 69

  charged with treason, 69

  on the famine, 58

  later life of, 316

  on Meagher, 47–48, 62

  Mitchel and, 43

  on Mitchel and slavery, 147

  trial of, 78, 86

  Duffy, Felix, 226

  E

  Easter Rising, 317–18

  Edgerton, Sidney, 274–75, 276–77

  Edling, Dr., 246–47

  Egan, John Joseph, 45

  Egan, Tom, 112

  Elgee, Jane Francesca. See Speranza (Jane Francesca Elgee)

  Elizabeth I, queen of England, 4, 19

  Elizabeth Thompson (ship), 115, 120, 126–27, 134

  Ely, Albert, 185

  Emancipation Proclamation, 217–18, 242–43, 244–45

  responses to, 227, 231–32, 244–45

  Emmet, Robert, 74–75, 212, 318

  Emmet, Temple, 212, 220

  Endeavour, HMS, 89

  England

  imperialism of, 20–22

  Irish oppression under, 3–16, 20–22

  Irish self-rule and, 317–18

  response of to famine, 36–47, 49–55

  slavery abolished in, 20, 231–32

  in U.S. Civil War, 193, 217–18, 231–32

  Young Ireland convicts pardoned by, 148–49

  English Chartists, 56

  Enlightenment, 12

  “Escape of Meagher, The” (song), 138

  Evening Mail, 73

  “Exodus, The” (Speranza), 57

  F

  Fair Oaks, Battle of, 202–6, 215

  Famine. See Great Hunger

  “Famine Year, The” (Speranza), 61

  Fenian Brotherhood, 167, 266

  Canada invasion by, 271–72, 294

  English infiltrators in, 294

  Irish rebellion by, 317–18

  Meagher in, 257–59, 272

  in Montana, 279–80

  Fetterman, William, 300

  Fillmore, Millard, 100, 138, 163

  Fisk, James L., 268

  Fitzgerald, Silken Thomas, 7

  Fordham College, 140

  Forster, William, 42

  Fort Benton, Montana, xi–xv, 289–90, 299–303

  Fort Corcoran, 178

  Fort Monroe, 265

  Fort Phil Kearny, 300

  Fort Schuyler, 194, 195

  Fort Sumter, 172–74

  Four Years of Irish History (Duffy), 316

  France

  anti-Catholicism in, 70

  Meagher’s trip to, 60–61

  rebellion in, 58–59

  Franklin, Benjamin, 318

  Fredericksburg, Battle of, 234–40, 245, 246, 279, 318–19

  Freeman’s Journal, 151–52

  Freemasons, 280–81, 296, 310–11

  Frémont, John C., 190

  French, William, 201

  Fugitive Slave Act (U.S.), 147

  G

  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 33

  Gardner, Henry, 151

  G. A. Thompson (steamboat), xi–xii, 303–5, 312–13

  George III, king of England, 89

  Gettysburg, Battle of, 252

  gold

  in Montana, 268–69

  transportation affected by, 124–26

  Goones, J. L., 296

  Grant, Ulysses S., 199, 200–201, 229, 257, 260, 265

  Great Hunger, 37–48, 73, 144

  blamed on the Irish, 53–54

  British response to, 36–47, 49–55

  curfew in, 52

  death rate in, 39, 57

  declared over, 66

  emigration during, 57, 80–81, 87–88

  evictions and, 38–39

  food exports during, 35, 37–47, 53–54, 58

  food relief in, 40–44, 45–46, 49–50, 55

  food riots in, 41–42, 57

  laissez faire economics and, 40–44, 51

  linked to U.S. Civil War, 192–93

  living conditions in, 53

  Meagher on, 164–65

  orphans of sent to Australia, 57–58

  as population control, 42–43

  rebellion undermined by, 70

  soup kitchens, 50, 55

  Great Plague of London, 37

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nbsp; Great Salt Lake, 269, 272

  Greeley, Horace, 99, 165, 187

  Green-Wood Cemetery, 319

  Grey, Earl (George), 92, 102, 105

  Griffin, Gerald, 304

  Griffith, Arthur, 35

  H

  habeas corpus

  Confederate suspension of, 199

  suspended in Ireland, 21–22, 68, 70, 78, 294

  Haggerty, James, 182–83, 189, 210, 213

  Hall, Edward, 103–5

  Hancock, John, 250

  Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 160, 229

  Harper’s Weekly, 167, 255, 296, 297

  Hearn, Francis, 4, 284–85

  Hedges, Cornelius, 273–74

  Heisler, Henry Clay, 240

  Helena, Montana, 282

  Henry, Judith, 183

  Henry II, king of England, 5

  Henry VIII, king of England, 5, 8

  Hibernia. See Ireland

  History of Montana, A (Sanders), 310–11

  HMS Endeavour, 89

  Hobart Town, Tasmania, 92

  Hobart Town Guardian, 121

  Homestead Act (U.S.), 216, 269

  Hong Kong, in British Empire, 20

  Hooker, Joe, 222–23, 239–40, 247, 248–50

  hooligan, 167

  Horgan, William, 242, 244

  Hosmer, Hezekiah, 277–78

  Howard, Jack, 278

  Howard, Katherine, 8

  Hughes, John (Archbishop), 133–34, 135

  on Civil War, 217

  on draft riots, 255

  on Emancipation Proclamation, 227

  in Fredericksburg Requiem Mass, 245

  on slavery, 165

  in Townsend-Meagher wedding, 159

  Hughes, Robert, 90

  hurling, 3, 12, 56, 190

  I

  Illustrated London News, 39, 50

  India, in British Empire, 20

  Industrial Revolution, 20

  Innisfallen, Abbey of, 97–98

  Ireland

  Act of Settlement, 10

  Act of Union, 20–22, 24–26

  Easter Rising in, 317–18

  education in, 3, 11, 17, 23

  emigration from, 80–81, 87–88, 131, 134

  English oppression in, 3–16, 20–22, 108–9

  English troops in, 4, 9, 24, 27, 38, 51, 55, 58, 59, 294

  famine in, 36–47

  flag of, 61–62, 319

  food exported from, 37–47, 53–54, 58

  food riots, 41–42, 57

  Great Hunger in, 37–55, 73, 80–88, 144

  informants in, 11–12, 54–55, 59, 63, 72, 109–10

  Kennedy in, 315, 317–19

  land confiscation in, 8–10, 12

  land evictions in, 38–39, 51

  living conditions in, 11, 12–13, 31–32, 33–34, 53–54

  martial law in, 68

  the Pale in, 7, 14–15

  Parliament abolished in, 20–21

  Penal Laws, 10–12, 13–14, 20, 24

  population of, 21, 23–24, 42–43, 57, 80, 144

  potato blight, 31–34, 36–37, 73

  potato introduced to, 12–13

  Romans on, 6

  siege of Drogheda, 9–10

  Statutes of Kilkenny in, 6–7, 10

  Treason Felony Act, 62

  Vikings in, 4, 5, 26

  workhouses in, 49

  Young Ireland movement, 29–31

  Irish American, 135, 256–57

  commemorative poem in, 306–7

  on Meagher’s escape, 137–38

  Irish Brigade, xii

  at Antietam, 220–27, 224

  boxwood sprigs worn by, 237–38

  casualties in, 212, 219, 224, 224, 226–27, 239–40, 252, 265–66

  at Chancellorsville, 249–50

  Christmas leave for, 244–45

  command of, 196–97

  creation of, 190–92

  Currier and Ives print of, 205, 213

  deserters, 233

  at Fair Oaks, 202–6

  final battle of, 249–50

  at Fredericksburg, 234–40, 279

  at Gettysburg, 252

  headquarters attacked in draft riots, 253

  Kennedy on, 318–19

  leave requested for, 247–48

  McClellan on, 232–33

  Meagher’s arguments for, 192–95, 245–46

  at Meagher’s memorial, 307

  Meagher’s sorrow over, 257–59

  Pennsylvania unit in, 230

  promotions denied to, 246

  recruitment for, 190–95, 213–20

  reputation of, 219, 278–79

  in Richmond, 199

  in Seven Days Battles, 208–12

  superstitions in, 222

  29th Massachusetts and, 207

  Irish Citizen, 147

  Irish Confederation, 51–52, 54, 61

  lack of weapons in, 70–71

  Meagher recruiting for, 56, 58–62

  uprising by, 63–64

  Irish Directory, 140, 146

  Irishman, 256

  Irish News, 163

  Irish people. See also Irish Brigade

  assimilation resisted by, 6–7, 10–12

  attitudes toward blacks, 161–62, 165, 170, 217–18, 252, 253, 261

  attitudes toward the Civil War, 213–14, 244

  in the Civil War, xii–xiii

  as Democrats, 143, 170

  diaspora of, 78, 80–81

  in draft riots, 250–55

  enslaved, 88

  escape efforts by for Young Ireland leaders, 99–101

  extermination attempts on, 9–10

  Kennedy on, 318–19

  living conditions for, 12–13, 31–32, 33, 53–54

  loyalty of questioned in America, 167–68

  Meagher on, 292–94

  nativist attacks against, 141–43

  in Newfoundland, 13

  New Ireland for, 268–86

  in New York City, 131–34

  oppression of in Ireland, 3–16

  rebellions by, 7, 9, 15–16, 54, 65–66

  reputation of in America, 133, 167, 255

  on slavery, 165

  transported, 85, 90

  J

  Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 185

  at Antietam, 222–23

  at Bull Run, 183, 187

  death of, 249–50

  in Seven Days Battles, 208–9

  “Jacta Alea Est” (Speranza), 69, 78

  “Jail Journal” (Mitchel), 63

  Jefferson, Thomas, 15, 16, 46, 165

  Johnson, Andrew, 270, 298

  Johnson, Leander, 296

  Johnson, William, 22–23

  Johnston, Joseph E., 206–7

  Jones, William, 252

  Jones’s Woods gathering, 190–92, 196

  Juke, James H., 36

  K

  Kavanagh, John J., 201–2, 222, 225

  Kavanagh, Patrick, 72

  Kearney Cross, 252–53

  Kelly, Eva Anne, 98, 107, 148, 158, 361

  Kelly, James, 226

  Kelly, Patrick, 246, 252

  Kennedy, John, 251

  Kennedy, John F., 80, 315, 317–19

  Kennedy, Patrick, 315

  Kilkenny, Ireland, 67–71

  Kilmainham Gaol, 74–75, 317

  King Lear (Shakespeare), 22–23

  Kirby, Con, 283

  Kleindeutschland, 131

  Know-Nothings, 136

  attacks against the Irish, 141–43

  attacks on Meagher, 150–51

  in Boston, 193

  Meagher on, 193–94, 293–94

  Mitchel on, 147

  in presidential campaign of 1856, 162–63

  on removal of Irish children, 163

  revival of, 255

  Kuppens, Xavier, 282–83

  L

  laissez faire economics, 40–44, 51

  Lamartine, Alphonse de, 58–59, 60–61

 

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