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On this day, Aug 3, 1823, General Brigadier Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in southeast Ireland. In honor of his birthday, we look at the astounding biography of the American Civil War hero and leader of the Irish Brigade. Thomas Francis Meagher, is truly an immortal Irishman.
In Roger Lowenstein’s latest book, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, the 37th Congress, and banker Jay Cooke are the stars leading the drama that ends with Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator, looms large but plays a supporting role.