Series 5 - Thomas Francis Galwey memoir

38pp

Copied from a published source: Galway, T.F. (1914) (1961). The Valiant Hours . Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackville Company.

Copy of The Valiant Hours by Thomas Francis Galwey (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackville Company, 1961). In the foreword to Galwey's memoir, edited by Colonel W.S. Nye, Nye states, 'Thomas Francis De Burgh Galwey was born in London, England, in 1846, of an Irish family, one of the oldest branches of the Burkes of Galway. The family came to this country in 1851 and settled on a farm just outside of Cleveland, the site now being on Euclid Avenue. When the Civil War broke out, Galwey enlisted in the Hibernian Guard Company of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry,' and that, 'during the war Galwey meticulously made daily entries in his diary.' These entries make up The Valiant Hours by 'Thomas Francis Galwey, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Narrative of "Captain Brevet," an Irish-American in The Army of the Potomac.'