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Title: History of the Ninth regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, "The Irish regiment," in the war of the rebellion, 1861-65. The record of a gallant command on the march, in battle and in bivouac
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Murray, Thomas Hamilton, b. 1857
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., The Price, Lee & Adkins co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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sioned officers to the cause of theUnion. These officers were as follows. FORMER RANK. NAME. REGIMENT. RANK. Captain, Thomas W. Cahill, Ninth Conn., j Col., Acting ( Brig.-Gen.Captain, Patrick Maher, Twenty-Fourth Conn., Major. Second Lieut., Michael McCarten, Ninth Conn., Captain. Commissary, M. A. Williams, Ninth Conn., Captain. Pioneer, John Carroll, Ninth Conn., First Lieut. 24 NINTH REGIMENT CONN. VOL. INFANTRY. FORMER RANK. Orderly Sergt. Sergeant, Corporal, Corporal, Private, Private, Private, Private, Private, Private, Private, NAME. , J. P. Hennessey,John Shaw,T. Sheridan,Francis McKeon,John G. Healy,Lawrence OBrien,John J. Kealy,John Murphy,John McCusker,James Lawler,F. H. Gallagher, REGIMENT. Ninth Conn.,Twenty-Fourth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Twenty-Fourth Conn.,Twenty-Fourth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Ninth Conn.,Ninth Conn., RANK. Captain.Second Lieut.Captain.First Lieut.Lieut.-Colonel.Captain.Captain.First Lieut.Second Lieut.Second Lieut.Second Lieut.
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.... j -^, Coi.. Thomas W. Cahill.(Reproduced from a War-Time Print). CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION OF THE NINTH—SOME PRELIMINARYEVENTS LEADING THERETO—ACTIVITY OF IRISH-AMERICANS IN THE CAUSE OF THE UNION—THE FLAGDISPLAYED ON CATHOLIC CHURCH EDIFICES—PATRI-OTIC ACTION BY THE REV. THOMAS F. HENDRICKENAND OTHER PRIESTS—GOVERNOR BUCKINGHAMFAVORS THE RAISING OF AN IRISH REGIMENT—THOMAS W. CAHILL IS MADE COLONEL. THE War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, was one of thegreatest conflicts in all history. Huge armies wereengaged, and the naval operations were also conductedon a vast scale. Connecticut was one of the most loyal ofstates. She responded promptly to the calls of PresidentLincoln for defenders of the Union, and is credited withover 54,000 enlistments. As the poet John BoyleOReilly sings: Thrice blest the nation that has every sonA soldier, ready for the warning sound;Who marches homeward when the fight is done,To swing the hammer and to till the ground. Call back that morning, w

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