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    1. Re: HIBERNIAN GUARDS
    2. Barbara I. Amburgey
    3. Dennis and Ingrid, At one time Ancestry.com had the Civil War database open for research, but now I find it is for members only. Maybe a kind Ancestry member could look up and post the names from Co B, 8th Regt. OVI here on our list. Barb -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Murphy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 8:10 AM Subject: Re: HIBERNIAN GUARDS >I would also be interested in such a list as I have a John MURPHY ancestor >who disappeared during the Civil War period and may have been in the >Hibernian Guards. > > >Dennis Murphy >[email protected] > >Murphy's Public House >http://murphy.genealogy.org > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Ingrid Abram <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:13 PM >Subject: HIBERNIAN GUARDS > > >> The Hibernian Guards "were an independent military company >> made up of Irish-American volunteers. . . . >> By 1861, the Hibernian Guards numbered 49 men and >> muskets. . . . were mustered into for 3-year stints as Co. B >> in the 8th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Army. The company >> saw action in such battles as Antietam and Gettsburg before >> its orignal members were mustered out of service on 13 July 1864." >> per The Encycopedia of Cleveland History. >> >> Would anyone know of a list of members for the >> Hibernian Guards? >> >> Ingrid Abram >> >

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