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Originally Posted by goat314
Yes, for the Union and Confederacy. It's estimated that 38% of African Americans have some Irish ancestry. Many Irish were overseers or masters on Southern plantations. Where do you think these black O'Neals, Murphys, and Kellys come from?
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Those were mostly Scots-Irish: Scottish colonizers of Ireland (Ulster County, i.e. today's Northern Ireland) who then moved to the southern US. They mostly came over before the Irish.