Table of Contents
Dedication ix
Acknowledgments xx
Introduction: "Write What Should Not Be Forgotten" xii
Chapter 1 Scoop of the Century 1
Chapter 2 Mary and Abe and Their Irish Maids 7
Chapter 3 Lincoln on Robert Emmet and the Irish Struggle 13
Chapter 4 Lincoln's Near Duel to the Death with an Irish Rival 17
Chapter 5 Lincoln's New Party, Anti-Irish and Anti-Slavery 23
Chapter 6 Lincoln Takes an Axe Handle to the Irish 31
Chapter 7 The Irish, Douglass, and Lincoln in the 1860 Election 35
Chapter 8 Lincoln's Irish White House Circle 41
Chapter 9 Lincoln's Love for Irish Ballads Displayed 49
Chapter 10 Two Irish Become the First Casualties of the Civil War 53
Chapter 11 Three Men Convince the Irish to Fight for Lincoln: Thomas Francis Meagher 57
Chapter 12 Fighting for Lincoln: The Irish Archbishop 73
Chapter 13 Fighting for Lincoln: General Michael Corcoran 83
Chapter 14 Lincoln's Unexpected Heroes 89
Chapter 15 Lincoln's Irish Soldiers-Captured by the Rebels 95
Chapter 16 The Man They Couldn't Kill-The Irish Medal of Honor Winners 99
Chapter 17 General Shields, Former Dueling Partner, Declares for Lincoln 101
Chapter 18 Taking on Stonewall Jackson, the Rebel Avenger 105
Chapter 19 Gettysburg, the Gap of Danger 111
Chapter 20 Father Corby Summons God-The Draft Riots Cometh 119
Chapter 21 The President Pardons Some Irish, Not Others 129
Chapter 22 Fear of Black/Irish Coupling Derails Lincoln Support 133
Chapter 23 The South Seeks to Stop Irish Migration 137
Chapter 24 Off the Boat and Into the Arms of the Union 145
Chapter 25 In Ireland, Father Bannon Wins Friends for the Rebels' Cause 149
Chapter 26 General Phil Sheridan, the Little Big Fighter 153
Chapter 27 Ford's Theatre-What Might Have Been 163
Chapter 28 The Co-Conspirators-A Catholic Plot? 173
Chapter 29 Irishmen Seeking the Killer Booth 175
Chapter 30 Edward Doherty Gets His Man 179
Chapter 31 Lincoln and the Irish-Linked Forever 185
Epilogue: Kennedy Retraces Lincoln and Gettysburg 189
Bibliography 193
Index 195
About the Author 205
