The History of the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June, 1861-June, 1864Fordham University Press, 2000 - 557 pages When the Civil War erupted, more than 1,000 Irish Americans formed the North Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, the first of the state's ethnic regiments. This book is a history of the regiment, told by Daniel Macnamara, who served as its commissary sergeant and rose to become regimental quartermaster. |