Category: Immigrants
The Germans Save St. Louis for the Union
Originally Posted May 6, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Missouri was a border state. That meant that it was a slave state lying between…
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…
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…
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels published by LSU Press 318 pages (2025) Damian Shiels has been researching…
Damian Shiels Talks About His New Book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865”
Gerry Prokopowicz of Civil Wat Talk Radio has an very revealing discussion with our old friend Damian Shiels talk about his new book “Green and…
The Draft Riots End in a Sea of Blood
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Tuesday July 14, 1863 was the second day of the Draft Riots. Early that…
Convulsion of Violence: Day One of the New York Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Editor’s Note: I have inserted an important discussion of the riot phenomenon in…
The New York City Draft Riots Begin
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook The months following the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg had been days of desperate re-examination by…
Before the Draft Riots: The Cultivation of Division
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook In 1860, immigrants made up nearly half of the population of New York…