Category: Immigrants’ Civil War
The First Casualties of the Civil War Were All Irish Immigrants—Was This a Coincidence?
Originally Posted April 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Last week, The Immigrants’ Civil War looked at the reaction of immigrants to the attack on Fort Sumter. Maryann…
Carl Schurz Meets With Lincoln To Arm the Germans
Originally Posted May 26, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The week after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Carl Schurz insisted on meeting with Abraham Lincoln….
Immigrant Leader Carl Schurz to Lincoln: Stand Firm Against Slavery
Originally Posted March 29, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. When Lincoln ran for election to the presidency in 1860, he had a highly…
Carl Schurz: From German Radical to American Abolitionist
Posted March 25, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. This is the third installment of The Immigrants’ Civil War. Before he even became a citizen of…
1848: The Year that Created Immigrant America
Originally Posted March 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The spread of revolts across the Arab world this year has been compared to the…
Immigrant America on the Eve of the Civil War
Originally Posted March 2, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. The…
The Immigrants’ Civil War: Preview of an Upcoming Series
Originally Posted February 25, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq I wrote this fourteen years ago explaining my new series The Immigrants’ Civil War. I thought…