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It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. The battalion was organized in May 1861, with men from the city of Richmond and Hanover County in five companies. It moved to western Virginia and participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign, then fought at First Kernstown, McDowell, and in Jackson's Valley Campaign.
Major Michael John O'Leary VC (29 September 1890 – 2 August 1961) was an Irish soldier and police officer who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth military personnel.
The great majority of those men who formed Saint Patrick's Battalion were recent immigrants who had arrived at northeastern U.S. ports. They were part of the Irish diaspora then escaping the Great Irish Famine and extremely poor economic conditions in Ireland, which was at the time part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [8]
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The 88th was numbered out of sequence after the British 88th Connaught Rangers, and was the 2nd Regiment Irish Brigade. After Chancellorsville, the new Brigade Commander, Col Patrick Kelly of the 88th, formed these "core" NY regiments, now together only numbering 220 effectives, into a single battalion under the flag of the 88th.
18th Virginia (600 men): Col George W. Imboden; 23rd Virginia (315 men): [4] Col Robert White; 43rd Virginia Battalion Partisans: Ltc John S. Mosby; 2nd Maryland Battalion (40 men): Maj Harry W. Gilmor; McNeill's Company, Partisans (60 men): Cpt John H. McNeill; Company A, 3rd Battalion Virginia Mounted Reserves (87 men): Capt. George Chrisman
The 8th Union Volunteers Infantry Regiment (Irish Rifles) was re-designated NSW Irish Rifle Regiment (Volunteers) in 1903, and then became the 1st Battalion NSW Irish Rifle Regiment in 1908. A major re-organisation in 1912 saw the name change to 33rd Infantry Regiment and, in yet another re-organisation in 1918, changed to the 55th Battalion.
23rd (3rd Sharpshooters) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry; 24th (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry; 25th (Sharpshooters) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry; 26th (Younghusband's Horse) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry; 28th (Westminster Dragoons) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry; 29th (Irish Horse) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry