Clash of the Irish Brigades

Authorities argue about whether an Irish Brigade existed in the Confederate Army and whether the Union’s Irish Brigade and the Confederacy’s Irish Brigade fought each other at the Battle of Fredericksburg. The alleged fight between the two Irish Brigades played prominently in the 2003 movie Gods and Generals. Ken Burns mentioned such a meeting in his 1990 PBS series on the Civil War. Gods and Generals refers to Cobb’s Brigade as “Brigadier General Thomas R. R. Cobb’s Irish Regiment, Georgia, C.S.A.” 

But was their really a clash between the two Irish Brigades . . .

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