The Reconstruction Era

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 November 4, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The Germans of St. Louis had been the shock troops of emancipation in the…

Originally posted October 21, 2011 in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The 65th Pennsylvania Regiment 5th Cavalry was not a “Jewish regiment.”…

Originally published on October 14, 2011 in Immigrants’ Civil War. by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger The Union defeat at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek convinced Missouri’s German immigrants that…

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Three regiments filled with Irish and Scotch immigrant New Yorkers struggled to survive in the days after Bull Run. The Seventy-Ninth New York Highlanders was a proud…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…