Author: Patrick Young

I was up in Oxford, Connecticut to see a reported stop on the Underground Railroad. I have visited a number of these over the years…

Originally Posted April 19, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. When the first Union Navy ships reached Confederate New Orleans on April 25, 1862, they were met with…

Originally posted May 3, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger While the Union held military control of New Orleans after April 1862,…

Originally posted April 27, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War General Benjamin Franklin Butler may have been the third most hated man in the Confederacy….

Originally posted April 10, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger New Orleans was the only major city in the Confederacy,…

Although the Smithsonian is a separately chartered agency that is not accountable to the presidency, the White House has set next week as the deadline…

Usually when I drive up to Connecticut, I bring  Dave Pelland’s authoritative book on that state’s Civil War monuments. Two weeks ago I was up…

Originally published April 5, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The North was an ethnically polarized region at the start…

Originally published on March 29, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On April 9, 1862, young German-born officer William Mank surveyed…

Originally published March 16, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In March 1862, after the Confederate army had captured parts of New Mexico…