Civil War St. Patrick's Day

Civil War St. Patrick's Day

by | Mar 14, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It was exactly five months before the deadly battle at Gettysburg, the scene of inestimable carnage, and it was St. Patrick’s Day in the little town of Falmouth, Va., which today just off Interstate 95 on the way to Richmond. Troops of the Irish Brigade were camped...