If you haven't read The Killer Angels, I highly recommend it. Kilrain is full of great lines like this. I was so disappointed when I found out he was the only entirely fictional character in the whole book, because I wanted to go learn everything I could about him. Also, as someone who had relatives in the Union Army who were recent German immigrants, as well as a 3rd great-grandfather who was just Canadian and joined a Maine regiment (not the 20th, sadly), I do love the "from a hundred foreign lands/Now we're all Americans" line so much.

@@erraticonteuse Killer Angels is fantastic. Loved it. I read it after hearing the song. Kilrain really is a great character.

He always looks great "in between wives"

Keep pretending it was about slavey.

Justine has a good voice, but he can't touch his father's.

At Fredericksburg, the New York Irish Brig was facing the Confederate Irish Brigade . When the smoke cleared the Union troops were decimated. And the Confederate Irish stood and saluted their countrymen

Columbus day is about Italian-Americans

Alec, it's more about historical revisionism, especially considering Italy wasn't even a concept yet when Columbus came to the America's and started a genocide.

@@alechachman9599 : Nothing gets by you, Alex.

What are your sources for that number? Because, from what I can find only 258 Irish-Americans have earned the Medal of Honor, which it’s still the most out of any foreign nationality. That being said, most people forget that more Germans fought in the Civil War than Irish.

He can do that; he wrote both songs.

Yes sir lol

65sparx be always proud of being Liverpool Irish like half of the Beatles.

Steve Earle is great, but this song buys into revisionist history.

mel obrien exactly

@@melvynobrien6193 what revisionist history?

@@melvynobrien6193 Or you buy into an earlier revisionist history.

Aww somebody believes the propaganda of the lost cause and his feels are hurt by the truth.

Maybe to you. I talk like him and he’s a poet well needed for the south.

A traitor to traitors is a good thing to be.

how is he the traitor when its the southerners that rebelled against america?

That “guy” is Steve Earl, writer of some of the best songs that have to do with the south. It was a joke buddy

Not really you see the war is over we lost hence we are Americans and all on the same side.

It's very much deep rooted in racism though, having originated in blackface minstrel shows. Plus the civil war was mostly fought over the legality of owning slaves so this song and to that extent southern american culture has its roots in racism.

@@SchizophrenicFrankie thanks for being the smartest person on earth

george gremillion Steve has always supported the down trodden and oppressed, he’s not going to sing songs glorifying slavers and the poor whites who drank up their snake oil.

Hayes Hartman It wasn't about slavery,it was about the north trying to force the south to belp pay the norths debt to the bankers

@@ByJingo76 - need to learn true history. Name any other country that ended slavery by means of war? Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant and racist. During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

Says the guy whose page links to arguably the worst songs every recorded in English.

I thought you were exaggerating, kilkee526, so I clicked over. It's probably been five years since somebody reminded me of "Sister Golden Hair." What'd I ever do to you?

@@kilkee526 kind makes him an expert then, no?

@@LookMeInTheStraps It would if they were described as the worst songs in history. It doesn't when he thinks they're great.

@@kilkee526 Omg, you replied to someone who commented on a 4year old post? Wow

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