Category: Civil War
The Irish Brigade at Antietam
Warning: This article includes historic photos of the dead at Antietam. The Battle of Antietam was the last act in the Confederate invasion of the North. After…
Private Peter Welsh Joins the Irish Brigade
Peter Welsh was a married carpenter from New York when he went to Boston in 1862 to try to settle a dispute among his relatives. A…
Immigrant Soldiers Chasing Lee Into Maryland
The Union defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run at the end of August 1862 created a crisis in the North. Confederate General Robert E. Lee…
Cross Keys: A German Regiment’s Annihilation in the Shenandoah Valley
The 8th New York Volunteer Regiment was one of the first immigrant regiments to join the Union cause. Organized on the Lower East Side of…
Richmond Burning: The German Immigrant and Black Troops Who Saved the City
Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Early on the morning of April 3, 1864, immigrant Major General Godfrey Weitzel wrote, “a little before two o’clock I…
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio
Before the Civil War, many escaped enslaved African Americans made their way to freedom by crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky into the State of…
National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland
When I was a boy, we would travel to Civil War battlefields. While visiting these parks, I would see hardly a mention of medical care…
National Museum of Civil War Medicine Begins Major Revamp
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine has embarked on a $3.5 million revamp of its galleries. The museum in Frederick, Maryland is thirty years…
Civil War Memorial in Greene, New York
Greene, New York is a small town today and it was even smaller during the Civil War. Lying along the Chenango River, up until 1812…
Dedication of a New Monument to Union Soldiers in Lyons, N.Y,
I drove up to Lyons, New York to see the dedication of a new monument to a Civil War regiment, the 111th New York Volunteer…