My paternal grandmother used to talk about one of her uncles who, she told us, fought at Gettysburg--also wearing blue. I have looked through the records of the PA troops, though, and can find no listing for either a James (Jim) or Francis (Frank) Giblin in the rosters. So, if one or them was there, he must have been from someother Northern state.

Incidently, My grandmother's father, Patrick Giblin, lived next door to his brother James, in Carbondale, PA, after the Civil War. There apparently was some feud between them because they never spoke and refused to let the cousins play with each other. It was years later that my father, one of Patrick's grandchildren, and a cousin, one of James' grandchildren, became very good friends. Families are strange.