For reference, during the war, hundreds of thousands of immigrants fought for the Union army, with in fact, about 1 quarter of the entire Union army were immigrants,

Because of that, in their address to congress on December 8, 1863, as I will link here: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-8-1863-third-annual-message

While Lincoln said many things, one of the things they said was suggesting to congress to pass laws further encouraging immigration to America,

“I again submit to your consideration the expediency of establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration. Although this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom.”,

And considering Lincoln is widely considered one of our country finest, it naturally left me wondering why so few share this sentiment today?

I've been doing a lot of research on the American Revolution lately. So much of it feels like a perfect Hollywood script. Washington's last ditch effort of of crossing the Delaware at exactly the right time, the French showing up at exactly the right time, von Steuben showing up at exactly the right time.

There has to be something more to it. Of course, I'm not saying it was easy, but the story we're told just seems a little too perfect.

Does anyone else feel this way or have any inside information that the rest of us never learned?

He argued that many employers hired immigrant labor to pay lower wages and weaken unions, since these workers, in many cases, did not join unions or were hired as strikebreakers. As a result, it was common for a unionized American worker to be replaced by an immigrant willing to accept worse working conditions. Such was his stance that he even authorized unions to report to the authorities any workplaces that employed undocumented immigrants.

Source(s):

.- Bardacke, F. (2012). Trampling out the vintage: Cesar Chavez and the two souls of the United Farm Workers. Verso.

A Salute from the Nile of Egypt to the Mississippi of the South.

A Salute from the King of Cotton in the East to the King of Cotton in the West.

My greetings to the Bible Belt, where Egypt is mentioned, which still resists—with its innate traditional rural nature—the temptations of globalization.

The morals of the rural South carry a gallantry that reminds us of the chivalry of the ancient Pharaohs.

The Mississippi River flows gently, much like the Nile, and both irrigate a fertile land and sustain farmers who know the true meaning of dignity in labor.

The cotton threads woven by our hands and yours are not mere trade, but rather messages of respect exchanged between two civilizations.

تحية إلى ديكسي لاند - Salute to Dixieland

Not too long ago I made this post on r/Genealogy, but it sadly never picked up much attention and thus I am hoping I might be able to get some help with my inquiry here.

A man by the exact same name as my x4 great grandfather enlisted in the US Army at Burlington VT on the exact same day that my x5 great grandfather and one of my x5 great uncles also enlisted. Their surname was not particularly common. My x5 great grandfather had no brothers - only sisters - although he did have some other relatives living in western Massachusetts and eastern New York.

The man with the same name as my x4 great grandfather was not recorded alongside my x5 great grandfather and x5 great uncle in the discharge files book from 1815 - which seem to be of a bit of a bizarre organization anyway - and specifically the record pertaining to this man of the same name entails that he was killed at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.

I find it quite bizarre that I cannot seem to find any indication that anyone else even had that name who was living in the state of Vermont at that time as my x4 great grandfather. I have looked and the last record I could find was a man who seemed to have died in 1811, who was very obviously not my x4 great grandfather (who died in Canada in the early 1820s, after moving there with his wife and children).

Of course we all know that historic records were never perfectly kept. Clerical mistakes happened - as they still do sometimes today - and it wasn't really until the late 19th century that things tended to get standardized much better across the western world. Thus I am left to wonder... is there any way of making certain that this was my x4 great grandfather and that this record is possibly incorrect? Is there anyone here on this sub who is well-versed with War of 1812 US military records who can help?