Comments - Band of Brothers: The Day the Irish Brigade Saved the 9th Massachusetts - The Wild Geese2024-03-28T20:03:10Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6442157%3ABlogPost%3A22836&xn_auth=noThis was one of the Seven Day…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-06-29:6442157:Comment:2337652018-06-29T07:07:53.127ZJoe Ó Connellhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeOConnell
<p><span>This was one of the Seven Days' Battles in the Peninsular Campaign. While it was not formally a part of the Irish Brigade, my great, great-grandfather's regiment, the Seventh Pennsylvania Reserves, was heavily Irish, mosty railroad workers, and was fr</span><span>equently engaged alongside the "formal" Irish Brigade. Sgt. John Scanlon, my ancestor, lost his leg at Gaines Mill. He eventually died as a result of complications of his wound some 16 or 17 years later.</span></p>
<p><span>This was one of the Seven Days' Battles in the Peninsular Campaign. While it was not formally a part of the Irish Brigade, my great, great-grandfather's regiment, the Seventh Pennsylvania Reserves, was heavily Irish, mosty railroad workers, and was fr</span><span>equently engaged alongside the "formal" Irish Brigade. Sgt. John Scanlon, my ancestor, lost his leg at Gaines Mill. He eventually died as a result of complications of his wound some 16 or 17 years later.</span></p>