By: Don Mullican
My surname is Mullican, ( IRISH ) Over 300 Mullicans fought in the CSA and some 100 in the USA. Some of the Mullicans came to America as far back as 1630
View ArticleBy: michael macnamara
Sweeny was an interesting guy. He lost an arm in the Mexican war. Despite this he took on General Dodge in a fist-fight which got him into the trouble referred to above. General Sweeny’s Museum is in...
View ArticleBy: Damian Shiels
Hi Michael, Thanks for the comment! Sweeny was an exceptionally interesting man, from the Mexican War through to his time in the West and on to the Civil War. He is often ridiculed for his part as...
View ArticleBy: DeJean Melton
Mullicans are Scottish — a few lived in Ireland in between. I have a lot of info on the American Mullican/kin families and would love to correspond with you. Also, I’d like to communicate with you...
View ArticleBy: DeJean Melton
I forgot to tell you that my great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Mullican b 1840 in Casey Co, KY, d 1921 in Bristol, Ellis Co, TX, was a Civil War vet. He was descended from a line which apparently...
View ArticleBy: Damian Shiels
Hi Dejean, Many thanks for the comment. I am not too well-up on dna testign but I would be happy to help in any way that I can. Also thanks for sharing the info about your Civil War ancestor, always...
View ArticleBy: Jim
Phil Sheridan may well have been born in Cavan, Ireland. Grant, Meade, and Reynolds all had Irish roots. Sherman was the foster child of an Irish family and married their daughter in a Catholic ceremony.
View ArticleBy: Damian Shiels
Hi Jim, There is much debate about whether Sheridan was born in Cavan, on the boat or in the U.S. and there are arguments for each. In later years a relative claims that he was born there and that they...
View ArticleBy: david
Utter rubbish. The big Generals on both sides were Scottish or Scots-Irish. Jackson, Stuart, Pettigrew, Gordon, both Johnstons, on the Confederate side, Grant ( Scottish , not Irish ), McDowell,...
View ArticleBy: Damian Shiels
Hi David, Many thanks for your comment. I am not sure what you are referring to as ‘utter rubbish’- is it that more foreign Civil War Generals were born in Ireland than any other foreign country? This...
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