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English-Only in 1861: No Germans Need Apply
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…
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…
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…
The Germans Save St. Louis for the Union
Originally Posted May 6, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Missouri was a border state. That meant that it was a slave state lying between…
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,…
In 1868 Irish Immigration Was Down and German Immigration Was Up in Ohio
This report gives numbers on immigrants passing through and settling in Ohio in 1868. A few interesting notes: 1. The number of Irish was down…
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon published by University of Tennessee Press (2020) $40.00 Hardcover. Author David…
“Irishmen And Germans Read This” The Mongrel Party’s Attack on Immigrants June, 1868
With the election of 1868, Democratic propaganda combined immigrant fears of the latent Know Nothingism of some Republicans and white immigrants’ concerns about their own…