Etiqueta: IMMIGRANTS CIVIL WAR

This page lists all articles in The Immigrants’ Civil War about the Gettysburg Campaign. 1. An Irish Soldier Between Chancellorsville and Gettysburg 2. Lee’s Army Moves...

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony recalled the Collar Laundry Union of Troy, New York as “the best organized” union of women workers that “I ever...

All the articles discussing women. 1. Immigrant America on the Eve of the Civil War   - Take a swing around the United States and...

Henry Sweeney had a successful stint as head of the Freedmen’s Bureau at Helena, Arkansas in the first two years of Reconstruction. The Irish-born...

In 1866, Irish immigrant Henry Sweeney was a man who had to constantly balance the interests of tens of thousands of white and black...

When Irish immigrant Henry Sweeney became the first head of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Helena, Arkansas, he was already a respected officer in the...

When Irish immigrant Henry Sweeney finally received his long-sought-after promotion to the rank of captain in 1863, it was to command Black troops from...

The 32 year-old Irish immigrant knew he had the makings of an officer. So did the many officers who knew him as an intelligent...

When Fort Sumter was attacked in 1861 and young volunteers flooded into the Union Army to put down the “Rebellion,” Henry Sweeney was already...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook On March 26, 1865 Major General Alexander McDowell McCook of the Union army occupying Arkansas wrote a report...