I think your confusing older scots-Irish with mid 19th century immigrant Irish. The potato famine wasn’t until 1847 which is when immigration really ramped up
150000 Irish fought on the union side
25000 fought for the confederacy
Most Irish soldiers were probably 19 and 20 year old peasants that had grown up in squalor and hunger in Ireland and emigrated to the us.
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