Tag: irish

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 69th” during…

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…

  Originally Posted April 29, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, it was not clear what New York’s best-known regiment…

Originally Posted April 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. Last week, The Immigrants’ Civil War looked at the reaction of immigrants to the attack on Fort Sumter. Maryann…

Originally Posted March 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq.   The spread of revolts across the Arab world this year has been compared to the…

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Tuesday July 14, 1863 was the second day of the Draft Riots. Early that…