Tag: irish
Recruiting the Irish Brigade, Creating the Irish American
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Defeat at Bull Run had left the Union war plan in tatters. Lincoln had assumed that the Confederate rebellion could be suppressed…
Thomas Meagher: The Man Who Created the Irish Brigade
Originally published May 10, 2012 in the Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger In 1862, the Irish Brigade would become one of the most famous…
The Democratic Party and the Racial Consciousness of Irish Immigrants Before the Civil War
Originally posted February 3, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Anthropologists like to remind us that race is not a…
Irish Green and Black America: Race on the Edge of Civil War
Originally posted January 27, 2012 by Patrick Young in The Immigrants’ Civil War In 1841, leading figures in Ireland sent a petition signed by 60,000…
Immigrant Regiments on Opposite Banks of Bull Run
Originally Posted July 20, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The 1st Louisiana Tigers Special Battalion was a unit mostly composed of Irish immigrants. They hunkered down in…
Why Did the Irish Fight When They Were So Despised?
Originally Posted June 24, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. In the mid-1800s, the abuse that newly arrived Irish in the US had taken from the…
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…
Immigrants Rush To Join the Union Army—Why?
Originally Posted June 9, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. If you have been reading The Immigrants’ Civil War, you know that one-in-four soldiers fighting for the…
Immigrant Day Laborers Help Build First Fort To Protect Washington
Originally Posted May 20, 2011 by Patrick Young The Irish 69th Regiment of the New York State Militia may have earned the nickname “The Fighting…
New York’s Irish Rush to Save Washington
Originally Posted May 12, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, left Washington, DC, isolated and alone. With Virginia moving…