The Reconstruction Era

Originally posted April 10, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger New Orleans was the only major city in the Confederacy,…

Although the Smithsonian is a separately chartered agency that is not accountable to the presidency, the White House has set next week as the deadline…

Usually when I drive up to Connecticut, I bring  Dave Pelland’s authoritative book on that state’s Civil War monuments. Two weeks ago I was up…

Originally published April 5, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The North was an ethnically polarized region at the start…

Originally published on March 29, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On April 9, 1862, young German-born officer William Mank surveyed…

Originally published March 16, 2012  in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In March 1862, after the Confederate army had captured parts of New Mexico…

Posted on March 2, 2012 on The Immigrants Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On March 8, 1862, a massive Confederate ship, clad in…

Originally published on February 24, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger As 3,000 Confederates moved north along the Rio Grande River towards…

Originally published February 17, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger On October 21, 1861, the Texas Confederate army began its…

Originally published on February 10, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Not all “immigrants” crossed oceans to become American citizens in 1848. One…