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The Know Nothings: From Triumph to Collapse

Originally posted December 16, 2011  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger August 6, 1855, was supposed to be election day in…

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The Know Nothings Launch a Civil War Against Immigrant America

Originally posted on December 9, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In 1841, New York City’s public schools used Protestant…

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The Evolution of the Know Nothings

Posted December 1, 2011 by Patrick Young in The Immigrants’ Civil War. The Know Nothing Party sprang to life in the wake of the massive immigration from Ireland and…

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Inside the Mind of a Know Nothing

Originally published November 16, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Henry Winter Davis served in Congress in the 1850s and…

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When Hatred of Immigrants Stopped the Washington Monument from Being Built

Originally published on November 10, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In the darkness of the early morning hours of…

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Lincoln Dashes German Immigrants’ Hopes for Emancipation

Originally published November 4, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The Germans of St. Louis had been the shock troops of emancipation in the…

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Jews Fight the Ban on Rabbis as Army Chaplains

Originally posted October 21, 2011 in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The 65th Pennsylvania Regiment 5th Cavalry was not a “Jewish regiment.”…

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St. Louis Germans Revived by Missouri Emancipation Proclamation

Originally published on October 14, 2011 in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The Union defeat at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek convinced Missouri’s German immigrants that…

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After Bull Run: Mutineers, Scapegoats, and the Dead

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Three regiments filled with Irish and Scotch immigrant New Yorkers struggled to survive in the days after Bull Run. The Seventy-Ninth New York Highlanders was a proud…

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English-Only in 1861: No Germans Need Apply

Originally published August 19, 2011  in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger. Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter, the federal government accepted into…

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