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Gannon haa written the novel with the thoroughness he learned as a journalist. He knew from family letters that Patrick and Dennis came to New Orleans with the wave of Irish immigrants after the Potato Famine in the 1850s. Patrick went up river to Minnesota where he acquired 160 acres in a land grant, but Dennis stayed in New Orleans and signed up with the Confederate army. Gannon began asking questions.
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