The complete online text of In the Irish Brigade by G. A. Henty.

When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...

G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...

SHARPSBURG, Md. - The forgotten soldiers of the Union Army's famed Irish Brigade were remembered 135 years late yesterday at a place called "Bloody Lane" on the ghastly Civil War battlefield Antietam. Nearly 24,000 Americans were killed and wounded on that day...

The morning of Sept. 17, 1862, broke gray and misty in Western Maryland. A drizzling rain had fallen through the night. At dawn, restless federal skirmishers opened fire, and Southern muskets flashed in response. The bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War was...