"Irishmen in the Confederate Army" Topic

"The National Museum of Ireland's permanent exhibition Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad from 1550 has a large collection of loans from museums around the world. These include items belonging to Major General Patrick Cleburne (1828–64) and the 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Irish) of the Confederate Army, on loan from the Tennessee State Museum. It is estimated that 20,000 Irish soldiers fought for the Confederate Army and 160,000 fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. While there were a number of Irish regiments, including the ‘Fighting 69th', in the Union Army, the only Confederate regiment to be formally designated as Irish was the 10th, raised at Nashville, Tennessee, in April 1861. Under the command of Colonel Randall McGavock, an Irish-American, the regiment saw action in the Western theatre, fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee. At the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, in May 1863, 52 members of the regiment were killed, including Colonel McGavock. On display in the exhibition is Colonel McGavock's guidon, which would have marked his location during the battle…"
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While perhaps not formally designated as Irish, the 1st Virginia Battalion was commonly known to both friend and foe as the "Irish" battalion. Five companies strong, raised in May 1861 with mostly Irish laborer rank-and-file but Virginian officers, it fought in the Valley campaign, Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Fredericksburg, after which the remnants became Jackson's provost guard. No additional battle honors after 1862, but the unit still existed until the surrender at Appomattox.

The McGavock family owned Carnton, the mansion in Franklin, Tennessee where Confederate dead and wounded were brought after the battle. Two acres adjacent to the McGavock family cemetery was designated as a place of burial for 1,500 Confederate dead.

Carrie McGavock cared for the cemetery until her death, earning her the nickname, "The Widow of the South."

In Alabama there were several Irish companies but not a full battalion. One company mustered with a Mobile Regiment.
One company which carried the green harp flag mustered with a Montgomery regiment.
Several companies in Alabama were raised as part of brotherhood fraternities. Some examples are firemen and dock workers in Mobile.

Missouri contributed at least one Irish regiment. The 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Irish Seventh" was raised in St. Louis and served in the west. At Vicksburg the 7th planted its flag on a Confederate fort. When the assault failed, the flag was recovered and brought off by the retreating unit. The green flag, now in the Missouri Secretary of State's collection, features a golden harp, shamrocks and an Irish wolfhound and the motto ".

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For more on the topic see "Clear the Confederate Way!" by Kelly J. O'Grady. It focuses the Irish in the Army of Northern Virginia.

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And of course the Irish in Wheat's Tigers, AKA
1st louisiana special battalion.