Egan implies that the Confederacy was, with the exception of Bull Run, losing the war from the start, but in fact in the early days of the war that the South was winning many of the battles.

And yet, Egan doesn’t even mention it until he gets to the Emancipation Proclamation. This was Lincoln’s entire motivation at the beginning of the war.

There was absolutely no reference to the avowed reason for the North to go to war with the South, which was to preserve the Union.

Here are a few examples, along with the correct information: From there it only gets worse, with simplistic explanations and outright falsehoods about the Civil War. Egan’s description of the beginning of the Civil War was rushed and simplistic, which is in sharp contrast to the detail and context he gives of other historical events. The book was going great until it came to the Civil War. Since I love to learn about Ireland and the Civil War, this seemed like a good book for me. I had a feeling I knew who the titular Irishman was, and I was right: Thomas Francis Meagher, who was a general in the American Civil War. I saw The Immortal Irishman book at the library in a display about Ireland for St. Other books by him include Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher and The Worst Hard Time, the latter of which was given the National Book Award. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, an Andrew Carnegie Medal in non-fiction, and a a National Book Award. I wish I could give it a higher rating, but in all honesty, I have to give it 2 out of 5 stars. I recently finished reading The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan.

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