SERGEANT JAMES HICKEY.
Death of a Brave American Soldier and Devoted
Irish Patriot,
(From the Irish World of Aug. 3.)
The announcement of the death of Sergeant Jas.
Hickey, which the Irish World makes this week,
will cause a pang of regret to many a friend who
knew and admired him as a noble specimen of true
manhood. Sergeant Hickey was born in Barna,
Co. Galway, about 47 years ago, received a good
education, and coming to America settled in Boston.
When the war for the Union broke out, he, the pic¬
ture of health and vigor, joined among the first in
volunteering for duty. The "Irish Ninth" was form¬
ed and he entered Company A. Capt. James F.
McGunnigle in command. No man in that famous
regiment was better liked or did braver service. He
was twice wounded. When the war was over and
men were called upon to follow Gen. John
O'Neill in the Fenian invasion of Canada, Sergeant
Hickey (alias Burke) took his place under the Green
Flag. He was in the battle of Ridgway, but later,
when the failure to sustain its victors left them at
the mercy of the enemy, he was one of those cap¬
tured and sentenced to death. The late Archbishop
Lynch prepared him for the scaffold, which, how¬
ever, he escaped by a commutation of his sentence
to twenty years' imprisonment. He spent 5 years
and 8 months of this in jail near Toronto, and was
reprieved about 16 years ago. Sergeant Hickey
then returned to Ireland and took charge of his
farming property. The Land League came and
found in the brave American soldier as enthusiast¬
ic an advocate as there was in Ireland. He organ¬
ized the tenants, fought the landlord candidates
and succeeded in bettering the condition of his
neighbors by calling attention to their condition.
For all this, however, he had to pay dearly. A
marked man, he was singled out for vengeance
and made to feel the bitterest wrongs of the system
against which he battled with Michael Davitt.
Ruin stared him in the face and he again sailed for
America, a year ago last November, leaving his
wife and four children behind him, to begin the
battle of life over. Those who met him could trace
but little of the handsome regular features of the
dashing soldier, whose courage was the boast of
his comrades. Prematurely gray and almost
broken down, he was hardly fitted for the strug¬
gle before him. After a short time in Boston, he
came on to New York, and through the influence
of a friend and comrade, he was given a position
by Postmaster Van Cott, on the 10th of July, and
he seemed to feel that fortune beamed upon him
for good. He had made himself popular with every
one in our great Federal building in the last three
weeks, from the Postmaster down. On Sunday last,
while preparing for Mass at the home of his cous¬
in Mr. Patrick Carrick, foreman of the Irish
World composing room, in Washington Av., Brook¬
lyn, Mr. Hickey was suddenly stricken down, and
within fifteen minutes his earthly troubles were
over. On Tuesday the sod was turned upon his
remains in Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush, L. I.,
and the sorrow of those who knew and admired
him for his devotion to liberty, both here and in
Ireland was given vent to by most affectionate tri¬
butes. May God rest his soul and inspire others
with equal zeal for the betterment of our kind and
our race is the wish of the editor of The Irish
World.
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