Certainly not, as any one who knows Thackeray's "Mulligan of Ballymulligan" is aware.

This point was garrisoned by Colonel Mulligan with about twenty-five hundred men.

Send for Dr. Mulligan at once.

While at Jefferson City, by permission of the General, he had organized a battalion to act as scouts and rangers, composed of two companies of the Third Illinois Cavalry, under Captains Fairbanks and Kehoe, and a company of Irish dragoons, Captain Naughton, which had been recruited for Mulligan's brigade, but had not joined Mulligan in time to be at Lexington.