Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher
Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher

Author: W. F. Lyons

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781332795802

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Excerpt from Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher: His Political and Military Career; With Selections From His Speeches and Writings How it comes to pass that the author has nu dertaken the task can be brie y stated. It is, with him, a work of love and duty. A tribute to a friendship cemented in years gone by, and enduring all days, even to the sorrowful end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher
Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher

Author: W F Lyons

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781340576011

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The Irish General
The Irish General

Author: Paul R. Wylie

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780806138473

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Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor - Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas and is hailed today as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained an enigma. The Irish General first recalls Meagher's life from his boyhood and leadership of Young Ireland in the revolution of 1848, to his exile in Tasmania and escape to New York, where he found fame as an orator and as editor of the Irish News. He served in the Civil War - viewing the Union Army as training for a future Irish revolutionary force - and rose to the rank of brigadier general leading the famous Irish Brigade. Wylie traces Meagher's military career in detail through the Seven Days Battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Wylie then recounts Meagher's final years, as acting governor of Montana Territory, sorting historical truth from false claims made against him regarding the militia he formed to combat attacking American Indians, and plumbing the mystery surrounding his death. The story Wylie tells is one of contradictions: of a gifted, ambitious man, of a life marred by personal tragedy and drinking, of commitment to comrades who resented his fame. While acknowledging the difficulty in reconciling today's polarized views of Meagher, Wylie has undertaken extraordinary research to realize more fully the complexities of his life and personality. The narrative is amplified by more than forty illustrations, including rare maps and images depicting Meagher's Irish compatriots, the Irish Brigade, and early Montana.

Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher; His Political and Military Career; with Selections from His Speeches and Writings
Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher; His Political and Military Career; with Selections from His Speeches and Writings

Author: W. F. Lyons

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781230392424

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... EXTRACTS FROM HOLIDAYS IN COSTA RICA. BY THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. [From Harper's Magazine.] ENTRANCE TO COSTA RICA. The principal entrance at present into Costa Rica is from the Pacific, at Punta Arenas, in the Gulf of Nicoya. The Columbus, a deliberate old barque through which a screw has been thrust, brought us, early in March, 1858, from Panama to Punta Arenas in less than three days. The trip was delightful. The coast-range of Veragua, the northernmost province of New Granada, was within sight--often within stone's-throw--the whole of the way. There were the mountains of the promontory of Azuero, glowing through the blue haze all day long. There were the rocks of Los Frailes-- gray rocks belted with sparkling breakers, in and out, and wide over the spray of which thousands of sea-birds sported--flashing in the sunset. There were the stars when the sun was gone--the white beach gleaming beyond the line of purpled waters--and here and there the fire of some lone hut in the forest high above the coast. At all times the sea was smooth-- smooth as a lake in summer in the midst of warm wooded hills--and at noon it was wondrously beautiful and luminous; so luminous that, looking down into its depths, one might have been wooed to fancy it had a floor of diamonds, and that the pink and yellow seaflowers, loosened and floating upwards from it, bubbling as they rose, were made of the finest gold. As for the company on board, ever so many nationalities, professions, phases of life and destinies, were comprehended in it. St. George had his champion in Mr. Perry--an affable, intelligent, high-spirited young Englishman, who had just been gazetted to the British ViceConsulate at Realejo, Nicaragua, and was on his way to Guatemala to receive his...