“Whiskey Has Cost Me My Own Life” – Civil War Interview with John Lanahan (1861)

“Whiskey Has Cost Me My Own Life” – Civil War Interview with John Lanahan (1861)

In one of my first blog posts here, I shared the sad story of John Lanahan back in December 2016. The Irish immigrant joined the United States Army during the Civil War and his life ended on a gallows outside of my adopted hometown of Frederick, Maryland on December 23, 1861. You can read that original story here. Thanks to my friend Damian Shiels, a renowned historian of the Irish experience during the American Civil War era, I can now share mo…