Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History, the names that came out were heir began, omalley, you know, all these irish names. And so they rioted. I will not ever excuse the riot. It was the darkest point in irishAmerican History. They strung up africanamericans, they burned down buildings, they nearly destroyed new york. They would have killed mara because he stuck to the union til the very end had he not been in washington d. C. They wen
Beauty from old line, wasp money, meagher is a fugitive. He writes this beautiful love letter to her where he asks her her hand for her hand in marriage, and he goes, i am here alone, i am a homeless exile, i have nobody, i have no family. Im wanted by the british empire, you know . Im nothing, but the greatest thing in my life was to find you. And if you will take me as your husband, i will share everything with you. Take my past, take my heritage, let us join our lives together its a beautiful letter. And so she gives up everything to marry this irish rebel. Her father promptly disowns her. She ends up living the rest of her life on a 50amonth civil war widows pension, but they were like this. She nursed his wound. Women, i didnt know this, but women could come down to the camps. He was knocked from his horse twice, he had this horrible abscess on his knee, and also his confidence was shattered. He had lost so many people who were so close to him, people he had personally recruited w
A chief negotiator for the Service Employees International Union's national office who accused Israel of committing "genocide" protested the Jewish state alongside his radical wife and violent communist son, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.