Series 2 - 'Address to the Irishmen of Charleston', 1861

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P/P155/66/2

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'Address to the Irishmen of Charleston', 1861

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  • 12/1861 (Creation)

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The original manuscript is in the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

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Transcript and reproduction of an open letter written by an Irishmen serving in the First Regiment, South Carolina Irish Volunteers of the Confederate States of America Army to fellow Irishmen in Charleston, South Carolina imploring them to join the Confederate Army. The author appeals to Irish nationalist sentiment, comparing British oppression of Ireland to Northern oppression of the Southern United States and invoking Irish heroes of the 1798 rebellion.

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