Category: Immigrants
Brief Submitted to Supreme Court in Defense of the Reconstruction Right to Birthright Citizenship
On February 25, 2026 two historians submitted an amicus brief in a case challenging President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing Birthright Citizenship from children born in…
St. Patrick’s Day in the Irish Brigade
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Although Ireland is one of the smallest countries in Europe, Irish Americans form the…
Pat Cleburne: Arresting a General, Becoming a General
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Civil War regiments were the products of a democratic society. Many officers were…
Killing Pat Cleburne: Know Nothing Violence
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Pat Cleburne had left his job as a druggist behind and become a lawyer…
Patrick Cleburne: The Irish Confederate & The Know Nothings
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook When Pat Cleburne went for a walk with his friend Thomas Hindman on…
Recruiting the Irish Brigade, Creating the Irish American
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…
Thomas Meagher: The Irish Rebel Joins the Union Army
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…
Thomas Meagher: The Man Who Created the Irish Brigade
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…
Washband Tavern Stop on the Underground Railroad in Oxford Ct
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…
Did New Orleans Immigrants See Union Soldiers as Occupiers or Liberators?
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…