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Today is the day—my Civil War novel, Year of Crows, is now available in paperback and ebook! Links to purchase in bio. Thanks again to @rlkhistoricart for the cover design. #civilwar #civilwarhistory #historicalfiction #civilwarbooks #americancivilwar by @revoltedstates

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My American Civil War novel, Year of Crows, now has a release date! It will be available both in ebook and paperback on May 14th, 2024. Cover art by @rlkhistoricart #civilwar #americancivilwar #historicalfiction #irishamerica #lgbtq by @revoltedstates

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Cape Verdean Joachim Pease may have been the first native of Africa to have earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was awarded it for his gallantry under fire on the USS Kearsage during her sinking of the CSS Alabama on 19 June 1864. Pease was born on Fogo Island ca 1842. #capeverde #caboverde #americancivilwar #uscivilwar by @revoltedstates

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Remembering Great Uncle Dominick Cioffi on the anniversary of D-Day. He was killed near St. Lo, France in July 1944 during the invasion of Normandy while serving in the 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Division, US Army. His remains were returned to his hometown of Yonkers, NY in 1948. by @revoltedstates

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Today is the anniversary of the Battle of New Market, most famous for the charge of the VMI Cadet Battalion. What's less known is that the cadets locked bayonets with teen soldiers on the Union side--inmates from the Massachusetts State Reform School who served in the 34th Massachusetts Infantry. I wrote about three of them here: https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2020/05/21/other-lost-shoes-the-forgotten-reform-school-boys-who-fought-the-vmi-cadets-at-new-market/ by @revoltedstates

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Happy St. Patrick's Day from these 5-leaf mutant ninja clovers by @revoltedstates

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I am excited to announce that my article, "Willie Charlton: A New York Irish ‘Street Boy’ in the American Civil War" will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany, ed. by Salvador Ryan.
https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&search=Childhood%20and%20the%20irish&product_id=2194 by @revoltedstates

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8 months ago

1st LT Frank N. Sheets, aide-de-camp to Union Gen. Richard W. Johnson, was killed on this day in 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga. Sheets left his hometown of Madison, IN in 1861 to enlist as a private in the 29th Indiana around the age of 15-16. His youthful appearance caught Johnson’s eye shortly after Shiloh, and after a brief interview, the general ordered him to be promoted and assigned to his staff. Sheets’ work delivering vital messages and even guiding regimental movements amid the chaos of combat made an impression on many, including Gen. George H. Thomas, who wrote that he was “impressed with [Sheets’] manliness and self-possession.” At Chickamauga, the teenage officer was struck by a hail of canister or grapeshot that instantly killed him and the horse he was riding. Johnson eulogized his aide in his memoirs. “He was brave, intelligent, and faithful, and made a most efficient staff officer,” he lamented. “His handsome face, his pleasing manners, and his general intelligence made him a great favorite in the division….His death was a great loss to me, officially and socially, for in life he was always with me.” by @revoltedstates

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Private Robert A. Cadwell was one of 12 soldiers of the famed 14th Brooklyn killed at Antietam on this day in 1862. A native of Albany, NY, Cadwell helped take care of his mother and siblings after his father left for California and was never heard from again. The teenager turned himself in for a theft and was incarcerated at the NY House of Refuge from the age of 15-16. Cadwell's case record at the House describes him as "a strange boy." On 3 Sept 1862, Cadwell penned his last letter to his mother. "We have had some very hard times here," he wrote. "We have been fighting for the last nine days, we have but 114 men left in the Regiment now - I rec’d nine shots through my pants and hat but none even grazed me - we lost one Capt. the Colonel and 15 other Officers, either wounded or Killed...Through complete exhaustion I cannot write more at present...Your affectionate Son Robert." Robert Cadwell was just 17 years old when he was shot "through the heart" at Antietam. by @revoltedstates

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Remembering ancestor Felix Larkin on the anniversary of the horrific NYC Draft Riots of 1863. An Irish immigrant from Desertmartin, County Derry, Larkin served as a police officer and arrested a major suspect in the lynching of a Black man on Clarkson Street. Larkin was ultimately wounded in the riots, and likely used his pension money to help start his own saloon in the West Village. by @revoltedstates

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Did you know there were Black Union soldiers present at Gettysburg? Specifically, four Afro-Latino men, Maurice Caballos, Jose Duarte, Antonio Lopez, and Elias Perez, served as privates in the 39th New York Volunteer Infantry, or “Garibaldi Guard.” Read more about them on Irish in the American Civil War: https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2025/07/03/black-garibaldians-at-gettysburg-four-afro-latino-privates-who-served-in-the-39th-new-york/ by @revoltedstates

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"They died with their arms around one another."

A Confederate Captain described the heart-wrenching aftermath of the Battle of Malvern Hill that occurred on this day in 1862:

"For a mile the ground was thickly strewn with the mangled and dying, showing with what desperate energy our men had advanced, and with what energy they were repulsed. Men, mangled in every conceivable manner, to the number of 10,000, were strewn out before me. The painful details of our own wounded I will spare you; but I will pass to the enemy’s side of the field, where one half of the number lay; there were men with their arms, legs, and hands shot off, bodies torn up, features distorted and blackened. All this I could see with indifference, but I could not but pity the wounded; there one poor devil, with his back broken, was trying to pull himself along by his hand, dragging his legs after him, to get out of the corn rows, which the last night’s rain had filled with water; here another, with both legs shot off, was trying to steady the mangled trunk against a gun stuck in the ground; there a fair-haired Yankee boy, of 16, was lying with both legs broken, half of his body submerged in water, with his teeth clinched, his fingernails burled in the flesh, and his whole body quivering with agony and benumbed with cold. In this case my pity got the better of my resentment, and I dismounted, pulled him out of the water, and wrapped him in a blanket, for which he seemed very grateful. One of the most touching things I saw were a couple of brothers (boys) both wounded, who had crawled together, and one of them in the act of arranging a heading for the other, with a blanket, had fallen, and they had died with their arms around one another and their cheeks together." by @revoltedstates

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