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Irish Catholic soldiers attend Mass before marching to Civil War
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Irish Catholic soldiers attend Mass before marching to Civil War
In the weeks after the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, communities across Pennsylvania’s Coal Region mobilized for war. In the Schuylkill County seat at Pottsville, local militia companies – many made up of immigrant workers – prepared to leave for Washington, DC as the United States Army rushed to defend its capital at the outset of the Civil War. Pottsville in the 1860s from Lawton’s Hill looking southwest over the city. (NYPL) St. Patric…
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