The “Irish Brigade” at Gettysburg was given general absolution before combat by Fr William Corby, CSC, chaplain of the 88th New York. US neo-fash are, not surprisingly, also neo-Confederate. More surprisingly, far too high a % of descendants of Irish immigrants among them.

Kevin M. Kruse

That's right, racist. The inbred "heritage Americans" of the traitorous Confederacy got their asses kicked by a motley assortment of immigrants in the U.S. Army.