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As a further element of

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personalization of the tour
and also relatively close to the New York

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Irish Brigade Monument will be the monument
to the 28th Massachusetts,

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which is also in the Irish brigade
and it was recruited in Boston.

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Sometimes the colonel liked to test
his guests a little bit to find out

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if they knew something more.

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But besides the fact that the battle is
fought in Gettysburg

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now, one of the things he did
was to point to the particular sign

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that's above me that says Faugh A Ballaugh.

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And he asked President Kennedy
if he knew what that meant.

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President Kennedy immediately
said clear the way.

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And Colonel Sheads knew that

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Kennedy knew something about that
Irish battle cry

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that dates back to 1798.

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So in this area on July 2nd, 1863,
Colonel Patrick Kelly's

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Irish Brigade swept into this area,
confronted Kershaw's

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South Carolinians, and were much later
driven back further down the hill.