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[[File: Battle_of_Fredericksburg,_Dec_13,_18621905footballteamyale.png|thumbnail|left|195px250px]]==== [[Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish SoldiersTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?]] ====During The headline at the American Civil Wartop of the right hand column in The Chicago Sunday Tribune on November 26, 1905 screamed, "Football Year's Death Harvest - Record Shows That Nineteen Players Have Been Killed; One Hundred Thirty-seven Hurt - Two Are Slain Saturday." [1] Contemporary numbers differ on the Battle exact number of Fredericksburg was but one meeting ground of Irish immigrants from both football fatalities suffered on the Union and Confederacy. Once fellow countrymenplaying field in 1905, these soldiers but young men were forced to assume new perspectives on their identities amidst the chaos of war. The ability to consider themselves Irish immigrants vanished when they donned a blue or gray uniformdying playing football.{{Read more| Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish SoldiersTheodore Roosevelt really save Football?}}