Category: Immigrants

Originally posted January 27, 2012 by Patrick Young in The Immigrants’ Civil War In 1841, leading figures in Ireland sent a petition signed by 60,000…

Originally Posted January 19, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. in The Immigrants’ Civil War Rumors circulated during Lincoln’s 1860 run for the presidency that he…

Published originally on January 13, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger More than a decade of Know Nothing violence and propaganda had a dramatic impact on the immigrant communities  that were…

Originally posted December 16, 2011  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger August 6, 1855, was supposed to be election day in…

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…

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…

Originally published on November 10, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In the darkness of the early morning hours of…

Originally published August 19, 2011  in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger. Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter, the federal government accepted into…

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…

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…