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Gettysburg, Pa.
Noted for its fierce fighting as well as its rowdy behavior in camp, the Irish regiment arrived in Virginia in June 1861 with more than 900 men in its ranks, and surrendered with Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, with only 55 survivors remaining. About twothirds of the regiment’s men
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