"Spaniards in the ACW " Topic

Interesting thread here …

"As Become fond of to Military History one of my great passions it is the History of the Civil War that got rid between the States of the North and the South in North America between years 1861 and 1865. The causes are known this War very well: Interpretation different from the original pact that it created the United States of America, for an indissoluble nation and a other Union of States with decision capacity to remain or not in the same one; the federal laws that benefitted to the industrialized North and harmed the agricultural South in monoculture of the cotton; a form of life different between States from the North with a mighty enterprise class and an important working class that it appeared in the new industries and that mainly fed on the flows of European immigration and States of the South with landowners owners of great plantations and whose manual labor was based on the slavery of the black man; the abolicionistas ideas whose implantation would not influence anything in the North but would mean the ruin of the South when having to emancipate the slaves; etc.

But it is not reason for this article to analyze the causes of the War of Secession but to present the participation in the same one some Spaniards and to remove from the forgetfulness some from his names as well as those from the Regiments in which they served and the Armies by which they fought.

In this War there were some general outstanding and admirals who by one or another cause maintained some type of relation with Spain. Perhaps the most mentioned he is the one of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. Son of a Spanish of Menorca was first American sailor in obtaining the use of Admiral granted by the North American Congress after his performance in the Civil War like high official of the Union. His father Jorge Farragut had been sent by his ancestors to study to Barcelona but the young person Jorge eager for adventure enlisted itself in a boat that in the heat of arrived at the American coasts War of Independence getting ready in the Revolutionary army where it would reach the commission rank. In 1801 Admiral would be born his son the future…"
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