Category: Civil War

Originally posted February 3, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Anthropologists like to remind us that race is not a…

Originally posted January 27, 2012 by Patrick Young in The Immigrants’ Civil War In 1841, leading figures in Ireland sent a petition signed by 60,000…

Published originally on January 13, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger More than a decade of Know Nothing violence and propaganda had a dramatic impact on the immigrant communities  that were…

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…

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.”…