Widows in the Atlantic World – Page 4 – Irish in the American Civil War

'Should this Book Be Ever Found on My Dead Body': A POW's Fate and a Letter to Ireland

by Damian Shiels
February 27, 2014
Letters & Documents, Microhistory, Pension Files, Social History (Famine Era), Widows in the Atlantic World, Women's History
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On the 27th January 1865 a Union prisoner of war was found dead in the yard of Salisbury Prison, North Carolina. The soldier, recently transferred from Libby Prison in Richmond, appeared to have died from a combination of exposure and...

The Long Arm of War: The Impact of the American Civil War On A Dublin City Family

by Damian Shiels
December 28, 2013
Letters & Documents, Microhistory, Pension Files, Social History (Famine Era), Widows in the Atlantic World, Women's History
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We have a tendency to view the American Civil War as a conflict that impacted only the United States and only people who lived there. This was not always true. The long arm of war could be felt with violent...

Dependent Father: How one Irish Brigade Soldier's Service Helped an Elderly Man in Rural Tipperary

by Damian Shiels
December 13, 2013
Letters & Documents, Microhistory, Pension Files, Social History (Famine Era), Transatlantic Connections, Widows in the Atlantic World
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Each month for much of the 1880s the octogenarian Timothy Durick travelled from his home in Lackamore, Castletownarra, Co. Tipperary to the nearby town of Nenagh. He made the journey to visit the Post Office and collect his pension, which...