Tema: Los Carlistas en la Guerra de Secesión Norteamericana

Había un error en el artículo de Wikipedia de Edward Kirkpatrick (ya se ha corregido). Al parecer, no fue confederado, sino unionista. El error probablemente se debe a una mala comprensión de las memorias de Kirkpatrick (que están en francés). En ellas dice que "je me mesurai dans cette guerre (...) avec le colonel Moseby, de l'armée confédérée". Es decir, "yo me medí en esta guerra (...) con el coronel Mosby, del ejército confederado". Puede comprobarse en este enlace: https://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000227892&page=76

Pero eso no es todo. La necrológica de Kirkpatrick en el Oakland Tribune (Oakland, 17 de mayo de 1925) afirmaba lo siguiente:

“A California Baron. The foreign press carried long accounts of the passing of Baron Edward Kirkpatrick de Closeburn in Paris on April 15 and at the age of 84, and all of them said at the close that the body would be cremated and sent, at his request to San interment. There is room here for no more than a hint of the remarkable life cf this man who saw the world and longed for California. He was author of memoirs of the last Carlist War, a cousin of Empress Eugenie and related to several members of French nobility and in 1914 was in California carrying on active propaganda in favor of France. That much the world may have read in the notices published with his death but there are earlier California chapters which were omitted. General Kirkpatrick, as he was known here, owned 97 acres on the Santa Cruz-WTatsonville highway at the time of his passing. He and his wife were familiar figures in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas, gray- haired and distinguished figures out of old-world fiction. It was not difficult to imagine him in the hero's role. On the Union side he fought in 102 battles in the Civil War, he was on McClellan's staff, and in command of a brigade. And he fought with Don Carlos in Spain, was an officer of the Legion of Honor and the possessor of a score of French decora- tions and the picture is faintly sketched. At the battle of Gettysburg. it is related, everv officer of his regiment except himself, was killed. J. S. Fletcher of Watsonville, one of the general's friends, cherishes a bottle of po- given him by Kirkpatrick in 1904 and at the time the California baron was living in this state.”.

Texto recogido en Llagostera Fernández, Antoni (2015). «Edward Kirkpatrick de Closeburn, la guerra carlista, el jacobitisme escocès (1688-1745), la guerra de Secessió americana (1861-1865) i la primera literatura nord-americana»