James William Fitzgerald

One of the first members of John O'Mahony's Fenian Brotherhood

Later a Prominent Senate Wing leader from Cincinnati, Ohio

Founder of the Irish Republic newspaper of Chicago

Below is a scan of an Irish American article about Fitzgerald.

On June 1st, one week after this article, Fitzgerald arrived with the Cincinnati Fenians to Buffalo where the Cincinnati soldiers apparently integrated into the 18th Fenian Ohio Regiment and then joined Fenian Colonel John O'Neill in the Senate Wing Fenian invasion of Canada. Fitzgerald arrived according to Scian Dubh [James O'Carroll] in his account of Ridgeway but nothing verifying his actual participation in the battle.

Before the second Fenian Senate Wing invasion of Canada in 1870 by the now Fenian General John O'Neill, Fitzgerald issued a proclamation withholding Cincinnati Fenians from participation in what was later called O'Neill's Folly.