Unfortunately, casualties = dead + wounded + missing. All the best, GJN ----- Original Message ----- From: "RUDDYsTN" <mruddy@usit.net> To: <CIVIL-WAR-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [Civil-War-Irish] > > >If memory serves me correctly, about two thirds of the Union's casualties > >were either Irish born or of Irish descent. I dont think that the war could > >have been prosecuted without the Famine Irish. > > Irish participation in the war was high perhaps 200,000 Irish born of the > 3.5 million men involved. 500,000 died. Two thirds of the casualties would > be 330,000 Irish dead. Maybe a bit of a stretch there. With the nebulous > "Irish descent" added we then go back to the 1700s, but many of these Irish > were not starving dirt farmers but tradesmen and were accepted members of > the American community and many were Scots-Irish forced out of Ulster. > Suffice it to say the famine Irish certainly played a larger part in the > war than other ethnic groups. > > I remember reading somewhere that General Thomas Sweeny was at the docks in > New York greeting the young Irishmen and luring them into combat. There was > active recruiting in Ireland and there is somewhere in the OR > correspondence a remonstrance of our ambassador in England not to allow in > any way the paying of nationals to fight which was a breech of > international law. > Surely the more exuberant recruiters in Ireland promised, over a cruiskin > lan (full small jug), that which wasn't forthcoming upon arrival in the > American docks. > Mike > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR-IRISH Mailing List ==== > To review past messages, visit the list archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/CIVIL-WAR-IRISH-L/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >