Ian Delahanty of Boston College has detailed how ‘I’ve found that Irish-American leaders (many of whom went on to serve as officers in the Union Army) before the Civil War were obsessed with the story of the Wild Geese and maintaining an Irish military tradition in America. Recruitment posters or advertisements would include phrases like “Remember Fontenoy,” and I know of at least a couple of widely-read Irish immigrant newspapers that ran both fictionalized and non-fiction stories of the Irish Brigade in France. These papers, like the Boston Pilot and New York Irish-American, were hugely influential at the time of the Civil War, and they used the Irish military tradition in America (whether in the Mexican American War, War of 1812, or especially the Revolution) as a way to rally Irish immigrants to the Union’. The most famous of these US Civil War regiments was the New York based ‘Fighting 69th’ with its battlecry of “Faugh a Ballagh;” which is the Gaelic for “Clear the Way.” Interestingly, to this very day the Royal Irish Regiment in the British Army uses the same battlecry , “Faugh a Ballagh”.