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Thomas Francis Meagher emerged as a charismatic Irish orator amid the Great Famine of the 1840s, leading an ill-fated uprising that landed him in a Tasmanian prison. Escaping, he returned to New York, where he was hailed as a revolutionary hero. In America, Meagher organized and commanded the Irish Brigade, a volunteer unit from New York, in key Civil War battles such as Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. He sustained severe wounds in combat, yet his ambition persisted: to have Irish‑American soldiers, hardened by war, return to Ireland to help free the homeland from British rule.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Timothy Egan
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