The Boston Herald, October 26th, 1997
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 in 1862, including 540 Massachusetts and New York Irish immigrant infantrymen. "It was sheer devotion and gallantry and the total losses were more than our casualties at Normandy," said Ret. Army Major Gen. William F. Ward, an Everett native who grew up in Canton. Ward was keynote speaker at the dedication of a 10-foot-high granite mo...
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