Sir,—The recent article ‘Irish Eyewitness to Bull Run 1861’ (HI 28.1, Jan./Feb. 2020) coincides with a discovery of a hitherto unknown connection between my family and the American Civil War. In December 1861 a young Irishman named Edward Ging volunteered to join the Union Army, C Twelfth, New York Volunteers. Born in County Offaly in ... Read more
