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Let Us Journey To The Hallmarks of Our Ancestors..So We Might Better Understand Our Own Place.. Then & Now - The Editors of IrishAmericanHistory.com
 
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John Shee from Co Meath commanded the Pennsylvania Line, one of the most effective combat outfits of the Revolutionary war. These troops came largely from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, and included a large number of Irish volunteers. Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence for Maryland. Grandson of a Co. Offaly O'Carroll, he acquired huge land holdings and was active in canal and road construction. He died in 1842, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Later another wave of Irish arrove on the blessed shores of America.. They came of neccessity....A single Celtic Cross monlument, bears the following inscription in English and Gaelic. ''These immigrants from Ireland were driven from the land of their birth by famine and disease,'' it reads in part. ''They arrived sick and penniless, and took hard and dangerous jobs building the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Known but to God, they rest here in individual anonymity -- far from the old homes of their hearts -- yet forever short of the new homes of their hopes.' -
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Charles Thomson was Secretary of the Continental Congress during the Revolution, and was the author of the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Co Derry. "I know at last whence I came," he declared. "And this has given my soul a new contentment. And it is a joyous feeling. It is like coming home after a long journey. - Ronald Regan Davy Crockett - Dubbed King of The Wild Frontier-
Fought under Andrew Jackson (also of Irish descent), served in Congress and died when the Alamo fell in Texas.
Stephen Moylan from Cork was Washington's secretary and aide-de-camp, and later Quartermaster General of the Continental Army. With his red waistcoat, buckskin breeches and bright green coat he brought a touch of colour to the cavalry.
Reagan said his great-grandfather - who left Ireland in the 1860s, a time of great poverty - had gone "seeking to better himself and his family."
"From what I'm told, we were a poor family. But my ancestors took with them a treasure, an indomitable spirit that was cultivated in the rich soil of this county," Reagan added.
Thomas Lynch (of Galway stock) was an Attorney and planter in South Carolina. He was a member of the Second Continental Congress and was the youngest signatory to the Declaration. The American Civil War
Seven Union Generals were Irish-born.  150,000 Irish-Americans fought for the North in the Civil War.  39 regiments had an identifiable Irish component.  Sixteen Colonels in the Union Army were Irish-born.  An estimated 80,000 Irish-Americans fought for the South.  Six Confederate Generals were born in Ireland.  Eleven Colonels in the Confederate Army were born in Ireland.  
The first two casualties of the American Civil War were Irish.  
Matthew Thornton from Limerick, practised medicine in Londonderry N.H., before taking several important State posts. He sat in the Continental Congress and was the signatory for Pennsylvania of the Declaration of Independence.
John Shee from Co Meath commanded the Pennsylvania Line, one of the most effective combat outfits of the Revolutionary war. These troops came largely from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, and included a large number of Irish volunteers.
The states with the Largest Irish-American Populations:
1. California- 2,611,449
2. New York- 2,451,042
3. Pennsylvania- 1,981,106
4. Florida- 1,645,585
5. Illinois- 1,511,569 (Census 2000)