Battle of Wilson’s Creek Drowns Immigrants’ Dream of Free Missouri
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger One thing was certain at the end of May 1861: The St. Louis Germans could not defeat the pro-secession governor of Missouri…
The St. Louis Germans Set Out To Free Missouri
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…
Should Lincoln Have Lost His Citizenship?
Originally Posted April 8, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The New York Times has a weekly blog about the Civil War called Disunion. A recent post by…
Civil War Anniversaries: History, Marketing, and the Pesky Notion of Human Rights
The 150th anniversary of the Civil War will hopefully be dramatically different than the one that preceded it 50 years ago. The 100th Anniversary was…
Immigrant Regiments on Opposite Banks of Bull Run
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…
The Irish Tigers From Louisiana
Originally Posted July 8, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. As the Irish Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment in the New York State Militia was training for battle near Alexandria,…
The “Sons of Garibaldi” Join the Union Army
Originally Posted June 30, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Giuseppe Garibaldi was the 19th century’s rock-star revolutionary. He had participated in liberal revolts in Uruguay,…
Why Did the Irish Fight When They Were So Despised?
Originally Posted June 24, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. In the mid-1800s, the abuse that newly arrived Irish in the US had taken from the…
Why the Germans Fought for the Union
Originally Posted June 17, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Within weeks of Lincoln’s election, Southern states had started to leave the Union. Lincoln would not even…
Immigrants Rush To Join the Union Army—Why?
Originally Posted June 9, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. If you have been reading The Immigrants’ Civil War, you know that one-in-four soldiers fighting for the…