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The Greatest Brigade - Author Thomas Craughwell speaks at Endicott Estate

The Olde Colony Civil War Roundtable is honored host author Thomas Craughwell for a discussion surrounding his new book.

Thursday, September 15th at 7:30pm at Endicott House in Dedham. Free to the public.

About the book:

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The Greatest Brigade is a tale of an incredible fighting force. The Irish Brigade played a key role in all the major battles including the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox and wasn’t decommissioned until WWI. It was full of larger than life characters and effectively led by a charismatic commander who was court marshaled for revolutionary activity in Ireland and was dismissed to enable him to serve in the war. Some numbers say that this unit lost more than 4,000 soldiers, one of the largest body counts of any brigade, if not the largest. This is a tale of a critical and incredible fighting force, packed with immigrants that helped win the war not only through bravery and war tactics but also by scaring the English out of the war with threats of violence at home. It’s a story every Civil War history buff should know and it is told with page-turning excitement that has made Craughwell a bestselling history author.

 

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About the author

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of more than a dozen books, including Failures of the Presidents, Stealing Lincoln’s Body, and most recently, The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History. He has written articles on history, religion, politics, and popular culture for the Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator, and U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethel, Connecticut.

For more information, contact Jack Kavanagh at jkavanagh-acc AT usa.net.

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