Shown on the walls of the large, one-room gallery and in nine display cases are the battleflags, pistols, swords, uniforms and cannon balls one would expect to find in any battlefield retrospective.
With the first primaries of the 1998 cycle less than a month away, congressional candidates in both parties are planting their battleflags on political terrain that is shifting in sudden and unpredictable ways.
When Abraham Lincoln struggled to preserve our young union, more than 100, 000 Irish and Irish Americans joined the cause, with units like the Irish Brigade charging into battle -- green flags with gold harp waving alongside our star-spangled banner.