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The Life of Paddy Yank: the Common Irish-American Soldier in the Union Army THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA The Life of Paddy Yank: The Common Irish-American Soldier in the Union Army A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of History School of Arts and Sciences Of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor of Philosophy By James Zibro Washington, D.C. 2016 The Life of Paddy Yank: The Common Irish-American Soldier in the Union Army James Zibro, Ph.D. Director: Timothy J. Meagher, Ph.D. Nearly 150,000 Irish-born men served as soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War and since the nineteenth-century, Irish soldiers have been a popular topic of scholarly study. Yet despite the abundance of publications on Irish service, the Civil War, and on Irish America, we know little, if anything about the common Irish-born Union soldier. Indeed, most publications provide little sophisticated analysis and nearly all recycle nineteenth-century stereotypes of Irish immigrants. This study attempts to fill the void in the literature, contributing to the understanding of common Civil War soldiers as well as the history of the Irish in America. Using regimental descriptive books – a source long-ignored by many scholars studying Irish Civil War service – as well as pension and census records, the author constructed a longitudinal social-mobility study of Irish-born soldiers in ethnic Union regiments. In doing so, the study ascertains the typical profile of the Irish immigrant soldier in the sample, the characteristics of his soldiering, and his postwar experience. The data suggests that the typical Irish-born volunteer does not fit the description laid out by previous scholars. Most Irish soldiers were not young, unskilled laborers who had only recently arrived in America. Compared to most other Irish immigrants, they were economically successful. Most were old, older than the typical Union soldier, and had resided in the United States long before hostilities broke out between the North and South. This information also offers insight to Irish American identity and Irish motivation for enlisting, which was likely not for financial reasons as scholars have claimed. Yet diversity existed as well. The soldiers’ county of birth illuminates cultural differences that existed within Ireland and also shows the presence of immigrant networks and migration chains that connected regions in Ireland with specific places in America. As soldiers, the Irish-born paradoxically deserted and fought and died in large numbers, which calls into question not only how they had previously been characterized, but the validity of using those categories as accurate measures of soldier commitment to the Union. Lastly, in the postwar years, Irish veterans enjoyed both economic success and failure. This dissertation by James Zibro fulfills the dissertation requirement for the doctoral degree in American History approved by Timothy J. Meagher, Ph.D., as Director, and by Stephen A. West, Ph.D., and Tyler Anbinder, Ph.D., as Readers. _________________________________________ Timothy J. Meagher, Ph.D., Director _________________________________________ Stephen A. West, Ph.D., Reader _________________________________________ Tyler Anbinder, Ph.D., Reader ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Paddy Yank’s Predicament ........................................................................................1 1. “I Hardly Knew Ye”: The Irish-American Soldier ...................................................................23 2. “I have enlisted in a Glorious Cause”: Motivation for Volunteering .......................................77 3. “For I’m sure I’ve had enough of your hard fightin’”: Deserting the Army ..........................134 4. “Mowed down like grass”: Fighting and Dying for the Union ..............................................185 Afterword & Conclusion: Paddy Yank, Lost and Possibly Found ..............................................216 Appendix A: Irish Soldiers Sample ……………………………………………………… ........233 Appendix B: Irish Veterans Sample……………………………………….. ..............................243 Bibliography……………………………………….. ..................................................................245 iii LIST OF TABLES & MAPS I-1. Birthplace within regiment………………… ...................................................................... 17 1-1. Representativeness of given names among Irish soldiers ....................................................26 1-2. Average height in inches among Irish-born soldiers by province .......................................36 1-3. Average age upon enlistment among Irish-born soldiers by regiment ................................40 1-4. Marital status for Irish-born soldiers based on occupation ..................................................44 1-5. Marital status for Irish-born soldiers based on province .....................................................44 1-6. Occupational status for Irish-born soldiers ..........................................................................49 1-7. Occupation for Irish-born soldiers by regiment ...................................................................52 1-8. Occupation for Irish-born soldiers by province ..................................................................56 1-9. County representation for Irish-born soldiers ......................................................................61 1-10. Most represented counties among Irish immigrants ............................................................62 1-11. Provincial representation for Irish-born soldiers .................................................................63 1-12. Top three counties for Munster and Ulster from sample .....................................................63 1-13. Settlement region in U.S. by province .................................................................................70 1-14. Top seven counties for Irish-born New York soldiers .........................................................71 1-15. Top eight counties for Illinois soldiers ................................................................................72 1-16. Top eleven counties for Massachusetts soldiers ..................................................................73 1-17. Top six counties for Pennsylvania soldiers ..........................................................................74 2-1. Irish occupation by enlistment year .....................................................................................97 2-2. Irish soldiers by enlistment year ..........................................................................................99 3-1. Wartime desertion rate.........................................................................................................141 3-2. Irish deserter age by desertion year .....................................................................................142 iv 3-3. Irish desertion as percentage of desertion sample ...............................................................145 3-4. Deserter occupation ............................................................................................................146 3-5. Deserter occupation by combined desertion year ................................................................147 3-6. Desertion probability by province .......................................................................................149 3-7. Irish desertion in 1862 without 90th Illinois ........................................................................152 3-8. Irish desertion in 1862, without the 90th Illinois, and 1863 .................................................155 3-9. 1863 Irish desertion by month .............................................................................................164 3-10. 1864 Irish desertion by month .............................................................................................167 3-11. Desertion for 90th Illinois by year ........................................................................................171 3-12. Desertion rate for marital status...........................................................................................181 3-13. Occupation for married Irish soldiers ..................................................................................181 4-1. Casualty rate for Irish soldiers .............................................................................................191 4-2. Battle-related casualty rate by occupation ...........................................................................194 4-3. Battle-related casualty rate by province ..............................................................................196 4-4. Irish battle-related casualties by Irish-born in regiment ......................................................198 AC-1. Postwar Irish soldier geographic mobility ..........................................................................222 AC-2. Postwar occupational mobility for Irish soldiers to 1900 ...................................................225 AC-3. Pension applications for Irish soldiers and reason granted by 1900 ...................................227 A-1. Number of Irish-born soldiers in sample by regiment .........................................................233 A-2. Regimental descriptive book categories ..............................................................................234 A-3. Missing or unknown information for Irish-born soldiers ....................................................235 A-4. Socioeconomic
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