Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides On March 10

On March 10

the three major anniversary celebrations

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John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861

“…an empty stone house and fenceless yard were all that was left the widow of seventy years

Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides On March 10More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was the USS Jamestown, a converted warship, which left Boston in March 1847 loaded with precious food for Ireland. In an unprecedented move by Congress, the warship had been placed in civilian hands,