After searching for different Irish Brigade tombstones in Calvary, I went out for drinks with the 69th NYVI Color Guard. Standing with them is Patrick Kelly's successor as commander of the 88th.
<p>THE sun shone over the battlefield of Petersburg on June 16, 1864, and 150 years later it shone over Knockma when a man who died at Petersburg during the American Civil War was commemorated on his native heath.</p>
Situated near the town of Tuam in Galway, Knockma Hill offers a beautiful hillside forest walk through a woodland filled with fairy folklore and legend.