Category: Immigrants’ Civil War
Union General Ben Butler Leverages Immigrant Politics in New Orleans
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,…
Union Leader Ben Butler Seeks Support in a Hostile New Orleans
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….
Did Immigrants Hand New Orleans Over to the Union Army?
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,…
The Know Nothing Colonel and the Irish Soldier
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…
A German Regiment Fights for “Freedom and Justice” at Shiloh
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…
Confederates Capture Santa Fe and Plot Extermination
Originally published March 16, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In March 1862, after the Confederate army had captured parts of New Mexico…
The Swedish Immigrant Who Saved the U.S. Navy
Posted on March 2, 2012 on The Immigrants Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On March 8, 1862, a massive Confederate ship, clad in…
The Confederate Army in New Mexico Strikes at Valverde
Originally published on February 24, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger As 3,000 Confederates moved north along the Rio Grande River towards…
Nuevomexicanos Rally As Confederates Move Towards Santa Fe—But For Which Side?
Originally published February 17, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On October 21, 1861, the Texas Confederate army began its…
The Confederates Move Against Latino New Mexico
Originally published on February 10, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Not all “immigrants” crossed oceans to become American citizens in 1848. One…









