Category: Immigrants
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…
Five Points on the Edge of the Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Five Points was the most economically downtrodden neighborhood of all of New York. When starving…
German Monument Comfort Texas: One of the First Civil War Monuments in Texas
Back in the 1980s I was traveling from Austin to the border with Mexico when I came upon the 1866 Civil War monument in Comfort,…
The Civil War Origins of the 14th Amendment & Birthright Citizenship Panel Discussion
Video is at bottom of article! A couple of weeks ago I was part of a panel discussion put on by Emerging Civil War on…