Quote Originally Posted by Kid Cossack View Post
If I was going to have to guess . . . I'd guess any kind of St. Patrick tartan would work in a pinch, in honor of the St. Patrick's Brigade that abandoned it's Union loyalties to fight with its coreligionists in the Mexican-American War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Brigade
Wow... that's was some pretty heavy reading for me. I'm not sure how I want to take that article. I need to do quite a bit more research but my great grandfather was Patrick Nicholas Riley, and I am almost certain he had a brother named John. Thank you though, for the very interesting article. It's time to find out if one of my ancestors is considered a "traitor" by history books. There are two sides to every story, but I doubt i'll ever find out his side of the story since he lived the rest of his life in the stockade after the war... Wow, thank you again.