Category: Immigrants’ Civil War
The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War
Originally Posted April 29, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, it was not clear what New York’s best-known regiment…
The Rabbi Who Seceded From the South
Originally Posted April 15, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Bertram Korn, rabbi and scholar of 19th century American Jewish history, observed a half century ago…
The Suppression of Pat Cleburne’s Confederate Emancipation Plan
Nearly three years before Patrick Cleburne presented his commanding general with a plan to raise a black Confederate army by ending slavery, the Vice President of the…
Pat Cleburne: The South Can’t Use Black Soldiers Without Ending Slavery
The proposal Patrick Cleburne made on January 2, 1864 to arm blacks to fight for the Confederacy is often understood as either promoting the use…
Pat Cleburne: The Irish Confederate’s “Emancipation Proclamation”
On January 12, 1864 Major General W.H.T. Walker of the Confederate Army of Tennessee forwarded a confidential document to President Jefferson Davis. The words in…
The First Deaths 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…