ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014: Did you know that it will soon be the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War?

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot - Comment - Voices - The Independent:

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/01/robert-fisk-sunday-28-december-2014-did.html

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot - Comment - Voices - The Independent

ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014: Did you know that it
will soon be the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War?

ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot

Did you know that it will soon be the 150th anniversary of
the American Civil War?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/a-timely-reminder-of-the-bloody-anniversary-we-all-forgot-9947514.html

… there’s a piece of history we’ve forgotten. For while the
start of the Great War of 1914-18 has been commemorated to the point of
spiritualism these past 12 months, who remembers that this week we enter the
150th anniversary year of the end of the American Civil War?

But for the Irish, too, the civil war of 1861-1865, is a
sombre anniversary.

They reckon that 210,000 Irish soldiers fought in British
uniform in the First World War, and that 49,300 were killed. Yet almost as many
Irishmen fought in the American Civil War – 200,000 in all, 180,000 in the
Union army, 20,000 for the Confederates.

An estimated 20 per cent of the Union navy were Irish-born –
26,000 men – and the total Irish dead of the American conflict came to at least
30,000. Many of the Irish fatalities were from Famine families who had fled the
desperate poverty of their homes in what was then the United Kingdom, only to
die at Antietam and Gettysburg.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/a-timely-reminder-of-the-bloody-anniversary-we-all-forgot-9947514.html

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