Answer:Like Corcoran, he hoped to gain some military training and joined the New York Militia, commanding Company K of the 69th New York. ... Meagher hoped to counter the resentment many Americans felt against the Irish through military service and to support the Union which had given the Irish a refuge during the famine.
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He's important to our history because he was part of the Continental Congress, an author of the Federalist Papers. He created the first bank of the United States, and <span>also played a significant role in generating the </span>Washington<span> administration’s policy of unfriendly neutrality toward the </span>French Revolution<span> and in establishing a rapprochement with Britain.</span>
