Category: Civil War

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”…

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…

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…

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…

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger One thing was certain at the end of May 1861: The St. Louis Germans could not defeat the pro-secession governor of Missouri…