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Originally Posted January 19, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. in The Immigrants’ Civil War Rumors circulated during Lincoln’s 1860 run for the presidency that he…

Published originally on January 13, 2012 by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger More than a decade of Know Nothing violence and propaganda had a dramatic impact on the immigrant communities  that were…

Originally published November 16, 2011 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Henry Winter Davis served in Congress in the 1850s and…

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…