Category: Immigrants’ Civil War

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Defeat at Bull Run had left the Union war plan in tatters. Lincoln had assumed that the Confederate rebellion could be suppressed…

Originally published on May 17, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Thomas Francis Meagher was to found the Irish Brigade, one…

Originally published May 10, 2012 in the Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In 1862, the Irish Brigade would become one of the most famous…

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,…

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…