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Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Henry Villard first saw future president Abraham Lincoln at the August 27, 1858 debate in Freeport, Illinois. Both...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Damian Shiels’s new book, The Forgotten Irish, opens with the story of a New York “boy” who would...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook I am always on the lookout for new scholarship on immigrant history. Luckily, we have three new books...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Felix Brannigan wrote to his sister that he wanted to leave the army in 1862 when he found...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Felix Brannigan made it into the history books with his July 1862 letter declaring that he did not...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook When Felix Brannigan wrote to his sister in the summer of 1862 he probably did not think that...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook When Confederate gunners opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, black men were barred from serving...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook Nicholas Said, soon to be one of the first African immigrants to serve in the United States Army...

Join The Immigrants' Civil War on Facebook The first two battle-ready black regiments in the Union Army were the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry....