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In the year of 1845, the country of Ireland was struck with the great potato famine. Devastating the primary food way to obtain the common man, causing hundreds of thousands to starve to death. In 1847, the British government, stressed with the starving Irish, made a decision to unburden itself by relocating over two . 5 million Irish people to America. To save money, the British used the starving Irish people as ballast on cargo ships packing 3 to 4 hundred Irish people into the cargo your hands on cargo ships which were soon to be nicknamed the coffin ships. This is the story of the great humane endeavor of the Irish people nicknamed the Potato Eaters. A individuals who arrived in their new home of America that was struggling with growing pains of its. The Potato Eaters would be part of America's best tragedy, having to pick edges in America's bloodiest battle of all, the Civil Conflict. Where unidentified brothers in two different army's would be trapped in a life or death struggle to endure.