First casualty of the U.S. Civil War was an Irish soldier

JamieLM welld one giving george a history lesson, that fool needs one (more than one)

Nicely done. If you are interested in the irish in the American Civil War, check the Facebook page entitled "The Irish in America's Cicvil War Memorial".

GeorgeDillon - I really wasn't trying to give you a history lesson. Right or wrong, at the time, the Federal govt. thought Ft. Sumter belonged to them. It was their point of view that they built it and put soldiers there. Lincoln didn't want it to become a symbol of Confederate independence. The U.S. flag was flown over it in 1865, not the state flag of South Carolina.

jamielm--Thanks, but I don't need a history lesson. The government of South Carolina was quite willing to let the federals keep what theirs, and offered very generous terms in order to avoid bloodshed. But Fort Sumter is and was part of the state of South Carolina. The federals had no business there once they were asked to leave.

GeorgeDillon: Ft. Sumter was a U.S. army garrison and belonged to the Union. The United States didn't want to give up what belonged to them, not to the Confederacy, because it would signal legitimacy of Confederate independence, making the fort a symbol to both North and South. The U.S. flag was raised again over Ft. Sumter on Feb. 18, 1865. @Moonlighter: Many sources confirm the story of a death of a Union soldier at Ft. Sumter caused by the misfiring of a weapon.

Not true. The only casualty at Fort Sumter was a horse. The first blood shed and casualties of the war took place in Baltimore, Maryland on April 19, 1861. It was called the Pratt Street Riots. Perhaps the horse at Fort Sumter was Irish.

Typical stupid Tipp man

What was this guy doing in South Carolina anyway? The government of that state had repeatedly asked the Federal forces to evacuate Fort Sumter and turn it over to the state of South Carolina. How come they didn't do so? Hough and his fellows weren't wanted in the Palmetto State.

The priest who died at the towers was Father Mychal Judge.

The priest who died at the trade center was Father Mychal Judge.

During Union General Sherman's march to the sea more damage was intentionally inflicted upon SC than any other Confederate state; mainly because of Fort Sumter.

Does anyone have the name of that priest?

From the National Geographic book 'Eyewitness to the Civil War' - during the siege of Fort Sumter, "One frustrated Federal, Private John Carmody, defied orders and raced up to onto the parapet, where he fired off several big guns that were already loaded. It was 'Carmody against the Confederate States,' wrote Sergeant James Chester,'and Carmody had to back down , not because he was beaten, but because he was unable, single-handed, to reload his guns.'"

Well it was hardly going to be an Englishman.Be like slaying one of their own seeing as how the war was engineered by the English Monarchy in a futile attempt to take America back.

Trealach,don't look for that story to be told here unless the priest was said to have molested a child.