Category: Immigrants’ Civil War
The Know Nothings Launch a Civil War Against Immigrant America
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…
The Evolution of the Know Nothings
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…
Inside the Mind of a Know Nothing
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…
The St. Louis Germans Set Out To Free Missouri
Originally Posted August 3, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Missouri was in a state of civil war even before the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Pro-Confederate…
Should Lincoln Have Lost His Citizenship?
Originally Posted April 8, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The New York Times has a weekly blog about the Civil War called Disunion. A recent post by…
Civil War Anniversaries: History, Marketing, and the Pesky Notion of Human Rights
The 150th anniversary of the Civil War will hopefully be dramatically different than the one that preceded it 50 years ago. The 100th Anniversary was…
Immigrant Regiments on Opposite Banks of Bull Run
Originally Posted July 20, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The 1st Louisiana Tigers Special Battalion was a unit mostly composed of Irish immigrants. They hunkered down in…
The Irish Tigers From Louisiana
Originally Posted July 8, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. As the Irish Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment in the New York State Militia was training for battle near Alexandria,…
The “Sons of Garibaldi” Join the Union Army
Originally Posted June 30, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Giuseppe Garibaldi was the 19th century’s rock-star revolutionary. He had participated in liberal revolts in Uruguay,…
Why Did the Irish Fight When They Were So Despised?
Originally Posted June 24, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. In the mid-1800s, the abuse that newly arrived Irish in the US had taken from the…