Thomas Francis Meagher and John Mitchel were Irish nationalists who escaped to America from a British penal colony in the early 1850s. Meagher settled in New York and became a patriotic American. Mitchel eventually settled in Tennessee where he became a polemicist for Southern independence.
During the Civil War, Meagher raised a brigade of Irish-Americans to fight for the Union while Mitchel edited two Richmond newspapers. After the War, Meagher became the acting-governor of the Montana Territory while Mitchel was imprisoned by the United States Army. After his release, Mitchel turned his attention solely to the Irish independence movement.
Meagher died in 1867 when he fell off a riverboat in Montana. Mitchel died in 1875 after returning triumphantly to Ireland where he was elected to Parliament as a protest candidate. America made Meagher an American; it did not do the same for Mitchel, who remained an Irishman at heart.
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| Date | 01 May 2007 |
| Creators | Rzeppa, Joseph Jude |
| Contributors | Steven Woodworth |
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