Tag: fernando wood
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…
Copperhead Mayor Fernando Wood and Union Gen. John Dix Graves in Manhattan
When I mention the Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan, most New Yorkers will tell me about visiting there as a child, typically to see the…