MEAGHER, Thomas Francis statue in front of the Montana State House in Helena, Montana by Charles J Mulligan

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THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
American soldier and statesman; Brigadier General United States Army; Raised and organized the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac, and personally comanded it in the Battles of Fair Oaks, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, White Oaks Swamp, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Antietam, and Chancellorsville; Appointed to the command of the Etowah District as Acting Major General in November 1864; Acting Governor of Montana from Sept, 1865 to July 1, 1867 when he was drowned in the Missouri River at Fort Benton, Montana.

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"My heart, my arm, my life are pledged to the national cause, and to the last it shall be my highest pride, as I conceive it to be my holiest duty and obligation to share its for it fortunes."
From speech at Jones' Woods, New York 1861.
"The true American knows, feels, and with enthusiasm declares that of all human emotions, of all human passions, there is not one more pure, more noble, more conducive to good and great and glorious deeds than that which bears us back to the sopt that was the cradle of our childhood, the playground of our boyhood, the theatre of our manhood."
From address delivered in Virginia City, Montana, March 17, 1866

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Thomas Francis Meagher
Irish patriot and orator; born in the city of Waterford, Ireland, August 3, 1823; Sent to Paris in 1848 by the Irish Confederation and the citizens of dublin to present an address of congratulation to the French people on the establishment of the Republic; Indicted and tried at Clonmel, Ireland, Sept 1848 for active participation in the Irish insurrectionary movement against English rule, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Sentence commuted to transportation for life to the convict colony of Van Dieman's land.

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"Abhor the sword, stigmatize the sword. No, my Loard, for at its blow the giant nation started from the waters of the Atlantic and by its redeeming magic and in the quivering of its crimson light the crippled colony sprang into the attitide of a p roud republic prosperous, limitless, and invincible."
From speech at Conciliation Hall, Dublin , July 28, 1846
"If in the vicissitudes to which all nations are exposed, danger should fall upon the great republic, and if the choice be made to us to desert or befriend the land of Washington and Franklin, I, for one, will prefer to be grateful to the Samaritan rather than be loyal to the Levite."
From speech on American Benevolence, Irish gratitude, Rotunda Bublin 1847

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"To the end, I see the path I have been ordained to walk, and upon the grave which closes in that path, I can read no cowards epitaph."
From speech on the transportation of Mitchell, 1848
"In Ireland, in America, he invited no man to danger he was not ready to share. Never forget this; he gave all, lost all for the land of his birth. He resked all for the land of his adoption, was her true and loyal soldier and in the end died in her service."

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Medium: Bronze
Artist: Charles J Mulligan
Related subjects: Civil War
Location: 1301 East 6th St Montana, Helena

Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number MT000037 (dcMem ID #6901 )

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MEAGHER, Thomas Francis statue in front of the Montana State House in Helena, Montana
by Charles J Mulligan

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