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Fri 10 Oct 2008An Irishman's Diary
A MAN called John P. McNally (no relation) has written to me from Minnesota asking for help in tracing information about his grandfather, James Philip McNally, who was born in Kildare circa 1847.
This sort of thing would not normally fall under the Diary's public service remit. But my interest was piqued by two of the known facts of McNally Snr's life, namely: (1) he served under his fellow-Irishman, Capt Walter Myles Keogh, at the Battle of Little Big Horn; and (2) he lived to tell the tale.
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