Immigration Paper

Immigration Paper
<Tab/>Since the beginning of this nation there has been immigration. It is in fact what makes this country so great, and what it is today. If people weren't willing to take the already deadly trip across the Atlantic, America might not even be here today. The immigrants I will be focusing on, which were part of the first major wave of immigrants to ever come to America. They were also a major part of the American Civil War. The moment they got off the ship there were union recruiters. There is perhaps no other ethnic group so closely identified with the Civil War years and the immediate aftermath of the war as Irish Americans. Of those Irish who came over much later than the founding generations, fully' 150,000 of them joined the Union army. Unfortunately, statistics for the Confederacy are sketchy at best; still, one has but to listen to the Southern accent, and listen to the sorts of tunes Southern soldiers loved to sing, to realize that a great deal of the South was settled by Irish immigrants. …