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The Rappahannock News
in its July 29 edition devoted considerable space and front-page display to my new book, Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers. I am grateful to the newspaper for the attention.
The experience would have been more gratifying, however, had the headline and story not mistakenly called my book a “novel.” A novel is a work of fiction. My book is history. Every fact in the remarkable story of the Sixth Louisiana Regiment, made up of Irishmen from New Orleans, is documented and footnoted. My book is a product of research, not the
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