Colonel Patrick Kelly, a Galway man, led the Irish Brigade into the Wheatfield on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Often described as the American civil war’s turning point, the ...

It was commanded, in turn, by General Thomas Francis Meagher, Colonel Patrick Kelly (killed), General Thos. A. Smyth (killed), Colonel Richard Byrnes (killed), and General Robert Nugent. This Page ...