John Dooley's Civil War: An Irish American's Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment (Voices Of The Civil War)
This book is a collection of some of John Dooleys journals split into three parts Secession, War, and Reconstruction. This Richmond, Virginia native John Dooley belonged to the First Virginia Infantry Regiment for years 1862 and 1865. The Dooley's, one of the confederates most well-known Irish-American families, they gain some pretty noteable family friends such as, John Mitchel. John Mitchel was an activist for Irish nationalism. John Dooley recorded his life during and after war as he fought for the Confederate army, offering an inside perception not only into the Irish service in the Army of Northern Virginia, but as…show more content… Durkin, in his 1945 book John Dooley, Confederate Soldier: His War Journal. However a very large part or Dooleys writings were taken out for whatever reason much of this was abridged and large parts of Dooley's original writings omitted, principally as a result of the confused nature of the archive. Dooley did not write a straightforward narrative account of his time in Confederate service; instead his diary is formed from a number of different manuscripts written at different periods of his wartime and post-war life. Initially serving as a Private in Company D of the 1st Virginia, Dooley was present at battles such as Second Manassas, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. He had risen to become a Lieutenant in Company C by the time of the Gettysburg Campaign, where he was wounded and taken prisoner during Picketts Charge. He spent the following years as a prisoner of war, before being paroled in February 1865 during the Confederacy's dying days. A devout Catholic, John Dooley decided to become a Jesuit after the wars conclusion. He died at an early age in 1873 as a result of , perhaps brought on by his prolonged time in the field and in
