Song of the Rebel Irish

Oh, not now for songs of a nation’s wrongs, not the groans of starving labor; Let the rifle ring and the bullet sing to the clash of the flashing sabre! There are Irish ranks on the tented banks of Columbia’s guarded ocean; And an iron clank from flank to flank tells of armed men in motion. The Irish green shall again be seen as our Irish fathers bore it, A burning wind from the South behind, and the Yankee rout before it! O’Neil’s red hand shall purge the land- Rain a fire on men and cattle, Till the Lincoln snakes in their own cold lakes Plunge from the blaze of battle. Whoe’er shall march by triumphal arch Whoe’er may swell the slaughter, Our drums shall roll from the Capitol O’er Potomac’s fateful water! Rise, bleeding ghosts, to the Lord of Hosts For judgement final and solemn; Your fanatic horde to the edge if the sword Is doomed line, square, and column! Ирландцы в Армии Юга Алабама: 24th Infantry Regiment (Co. B): 8th Infantry Regiment - Co. I (Emerald Guard) Джорджия: Frazier’s Battery, 19th Infantry Regiment (Co. B) Луизиана: 1st Infantry Regiment (Companies D & E), 5th Infantry Regiment (Company C), 6th Infantry Regiment (Companies B, F, I), 7th Infantry Regiment (Companies D & F), 9th Infantry Regiment (Company E), 20th Infantry Regiment (4 Irish Companies), 1st Special Battalion Infantry (Wheat’s Battallion). Северная Каролина: 40th Infantry Regiment (Co. H) Южная Каролина: Charleston Battallion. Теннесси: 2nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Infantry Regiment, 21st Infantry Regiment (Co. B) Техас: 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment (Co. F) - “Davis Guards“ Вирджиния: 11th Infantry Regiment (Co. H), 17th Infantry Regiment (Companies G & I) Всего более ирландцев.