Chester A Arthur was the Quartermaster General of the State of New York and held the rank of Brigadier General United States Volunteers during the Civil War. Although he did not see action he was instrumental in supplying a large number of Union Troops during the Rebellion.
{| |- | New York was well north of the Mason Dixon Line. New York was a very populated state during the time of the Civil War. Many regiments were provided to the Union Army by the citizens of New York. There were those 'Copperheads' that were totally against the war against the South. |}
In the US Civil War, since the North lost more men than the South did, and New York had the most men...probably New York lost the most men.
No, John Steinbeck didn't fight in World War II. He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II, though.
He fought in WW1, not the Civil War..Enlisted at age 29.
New York was a Northern state.
During the Civil War New York was a Union state.
during the civil war, teams were divided into: mets yankees giants dodgers.
They were names of prisons that held people during the Civil War.
Draft riots.
Draft riots.
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No. He was from New York and served in the New York militia to help fight for the North during the Civil War. (His young wife was, however, a private Southern sympathizer, because she had kin-folk in Virginia.) His father was a stauch abolitionist.
Horace Greeley
The two most influential newspapers during the US Civil War era were the New York Tribune and the New York Herald. Both had a national readership, and were located in New York City.
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They mostly fought for the Union. Since the major port of entry was New York City, and most Irish immigrants had settled in Union states, it was just natural that the Union would see a larger percentage of the Irish immigrants in their ranks than the Confederates.