Many will assume that with such a title the book is meant to be humorous, but it is not. I doubt even the redoubtable Ned Buntline, in one of his alcoholic hazes, would have dared publish such a yarn and claim that it was factual. Based upon what the author James Mic Regan’s grandfather told him as a child, this book purports that the dreaded Irish-American gang of thugs and murderers who infested New York before and after the Civil War, went West, where they became spies for the Army and


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