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The German-Irish Mutiny at Fort Jackson
Fort Jackson in 1862 saw the breaking point of human will. For twelve days, Union ships rained shells on the Confederate fort, turning it into a flooded hell.
German and Irish immigrants from New Orleans made up most of the 1,100 untrained defenders who huddled in wet, cracked casemates with no food or clean water. After a week of this torture, they’d had enough…