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Cornelia Adair lost both her first husband and her father (General James Wadsworth) in the American Civil War. She later married Jack Adair, owner of the Glenveagh Estate in Co. Donegal, a location with which she became famously connected. #Donegal #ForgottenIrish 
Cornelia's younger sister Elizabeth also married into an Irish Family, joining the Irish gentry by marrying Lord Barrymore, with connections to Co. Cork: fotahouse.com/from-free-soil…
Adair himself was notorious for the Derryveagh Evictions, which you can read about here: thesilvervoice.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/rem…
1863 commission of #Cork emigrant Roger Warner as a First Lieutenant in the 53rd Illinois Infantry. The 29-year-old father of four was never mustered at the rank- he drowned when the steamer he was on was burned by a Rebel agent in September 1863. #ForgottenIrish #IrishDiaspora
A carpenter in Ottawa, LaSalle County, Roger had left Ireland as a teenager, sailing on the "Yeoman" which was bound for Philadelphia from Cork in 1851. He travelled with his mother, brother and sister. Their father had gone ahead to pave the way.
Roger married fellow Irish emigrant Ellen Fenlon in 1853. They lived in New York's 22nd Ward until the late 1850s, probably moving West to pursue employement opportunities. When war came, Roger joined with Captain Michael Leahy's strongly Irish American company in his new state.
How Peter Keefe in Kilkenny Came to Lose His Leg– A Story of American Coastal Raids, Escape Tunnels & Prison Breaks: irishamericancivilwar.com/2020/01/11/how… #IrishDiaspora #ForgottenIrish
I think this is an amazing story, and one I have been researching on and off for a number of years.
@irishhistory you might be interested in this one, seeing as he is a fellow Kilkenny man and came home– he definitely had a story to tell!
