Category: Civil War
True Valor at Gettysburg Monument in Lyons, New York
A new monument to a Civil War regiment, the 111th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, was unveiled on August 22, 2026 in Lyons, N.Y.. This…
Emancipation: “All men are created equal, whether black or white”
Karl Frick was in his early twenties when he arrived in the United States from Germany just six years before the Civil War. He married…
NY Times Recalls the Search by Its Reporter for His Son at Gettysburg
Dan Barry, a modern reporter for the New York Times, has a story in today’s paper about a Times reporter on July 4, 1863 wandering…
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…
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…
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…