A dose of Irish, among other things

This is a bit off track from the Civil War memory line of writing, but bear with me and I’ll get back to that.
I couldn’t help but post about Irish ancestry today. Yes, I suppose one could say it’s one of those “ancestral obsession days.” Many of those who have Irish ties go crazy and [...]

More puzzlements over Civil War “memory”

I’ve written about how I am puzzled over the way that those with no familial connections whatsoever have found ”sympathetic connections” with one side or another in the Civil War. I’ve also written about how a person, descended from a Union soldier, had been left with a legacy of forgotten family participation in the war. However, today, I [...]