Tag: irish
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 69th” during…
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…
The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War
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…
The First Deaths of the Civil War Were All Irish Immigrants—Was This a Coincidence?
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…
1848: The Year that Created Immigrant America
Originally Posted March 18, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The spread of revolts across the Arab world this year has been compared to the…
The Draft Riots End in a Sea of Blood
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…
The New York City Draft Riots Begin
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook The months following the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg had been days of desperate re-examination by…
Before the Draft Riots: The Cultivation of Division
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook In 1860, immigrants made up nearly half of the population of New York…
Five Points on the Edge of the Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Five Points was the most economically downtrodden neighborhood of all of New York. When starving…