Tag: immigrants civil war
The Rabbi Who Seceded From the South
Originally Posted April 15, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Bertram Korn, rabbi and scholar of 19th century American Jewish history, observed a half century ago…
The Suppression of Pat Cleburne’s Confederate Emancipation Plan
Nearly three years before Patrick Cleburne presented his commanding general with a plan to raise a black Confederate army by ending slavery, the Vice President of the…
Pat Cleburne: The South Can’t Use Black Soldiers Without Ending Slavery
The proposal Patrick Cleburne made on January 2, 1864 to arm blacks to fight for the Confederacy is often understood as either promoting the use…
Pat Cleburne: The Irish Confederate’s “Emancipation Proclamation”
On January 12, 1864 Major General W.H.T. Walker of the Confederate Army of Tennessee forwarded a confidential document to President Jefferson Davis. The words in…
Immigrant America on the Eve of the Civil War
Originally Posted March 2, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. The…