Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides who had honed their fighting

who had honed their fighting prowess earlier in the war against fearsome Confederate tacticians John Mosby and John Imboden

Jennie Wade of Gettysburg: The Complete Story of the Only Civilian Killed during the Battle of Gettysburg

including a dozen newly discovered documents that have not been seen for 160 years

On March 10

John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861

Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides who had honed their fightingMore than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was the USS Jamestown, a converted warship, which left Boston in March 1847 loaded with precious food for Ireland. In an unprecedented move by Congress, the warship had been placed in civilian hands,