In the days after the US Army’s disaster at Bull Run, the three-months men came home – and Harrisburg could barely hold all the soldiers. Martin J. Byrne watched it unfold from Camp Curtin in the state capital. A 21-year-old Carbondale schoolteacher who had just joined with the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Byrne wrote to his parents on July 31, 1861. Byrne was the son of Peter Byrne, an Irish-born lawyer who had settled first in New York be…
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