Tag: new york city
Video: George Templeton Strong’s Civil War Diaries Have Just Been Published-An Editor’s Discussion
If you ever watched Ken Burn’s masterful, if flawed, documentary Civil War you no doubt remember the many quotes from George Templeton Strong voiced by…
Merchant’s House in Manhattan Has a Recently Discovered Passage for the Underground Railroad
Merchant’s house in New York City has recently uncovered a hidden passageway that historians say was used by the owners to hide slaves on the…
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…
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…
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…
Convulsion of Violence: Day One of the New York Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Editor’s Note: I have inserted an important discussion of the riot phenomenon in…
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…
Copperhead Mayor Fernando Wood and Union Gen. John Dix Graves in Manhattan
When I mention the Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan, most New Yorkers will tell me about visiting there as a child, typically to see the…