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Preliminaries to Emancipation: Race, the Irish, and Lincoln
Lincoln’s September 22, 1862, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. It only announced that slavery would end in the Confederacy if the rebellion in the South…
Private Peter Welsh Joins the Irish Brigade
Peter Welsh was a married carpenter from New York when he went to Boston in 1862 to try to settle a dispute among his relatives. A…
The Irish Brigade at Antietam
Warning: This article includes historic photos of the dead at Antietam. The Battle of Antietam was the last act in the Confederate invasion of the North. After…
Monument to the Immigrants Who Died in Long Island Shipwreck
Many of us have swum off Nassau Beach at Nickerson County Park in Long Beach. If you had been there in the second and third…
The Irish Regiment that Ended “Pickett’s Charge”: Gettysburg July 3, 1863
On July 3, 1863, as the Confederates of George Pickett’s Division closed on the stone wall near the top of Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, they saw…
Iron Brigade Immigrants Go Into Battle the First Day at Gettysburg
On the warm morning of July 1, 1863, the men of the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of the Iron Brigade were among the closest to danger of the…
Iron Brigade Immigrants Arrive at Gettysburg
On July 1, 1863, the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment arrived in Gettysburg. A battle between a large Confederate force and a Union cavalry division had been waged…
Bunker Hill Monuments Set to Lose Quotes From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era
The National Park Service exhibition at the Bunker Hill Monument is undergoing changes in response to President Trump’s 2025 Executive Order “Restoring Sanity” in the…
Pat Cleburne: Arresting a General, Becoming a General
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Civil War regiments were the products of a democratic society. Many officers were…
Killing Pat Cleburne: Know Nothing Violence
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Pat Cleburne had left his job as a druggist behind and become a lawyer…