| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865. By Susannah Ural Bruce. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 309 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9939-0. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9940-6.)

War and memory has been a topic of considerable interest over the past quarter century. Yet for Irishmen who wore Union blue during the American Civil War, the struggle for memory commenced even before the guns fell silent in 1865. As Susannah Ural Bruce convincingly shows, the Irish used their military service in the United States not only to prepare for Ireland's liberation, but also as a means of integrating into American society. "Their dual loyalties to Ireland and the United States, symbolized by the harp and the eagle, carried them through four bloody years of war and political crises, as well as the painful postwar period. By remaining true to those blended traditions, Irish Catholics secured for themselves a unique and powerful role in America's past, present, and future" (p. 264).

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