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Charleston, South Carolina was one of the major Irish immigration location. Many of these of these immigrants were young and unskilled laborers and thus had little stake in the slave economy of the South. Yet they sided with the states with which they immigrated to. It seems strange that people who were “just off the boat” would feel an obligation to defend a state that they have only recently come to call home.
It is strange that impoverished immigrants would fell the need to stand up and protect an institution that had nothing to do with them and that a few likely opposed. Actually many Irish immigrants were pro-slavery. The treatment of Irish by the British left a sour taste in the mouth of the Irish and affected their view on social class, since the British believed that Irish were inferior beings. The Irish learned the importance of social inclusion and thus confounds their stance on slavery even more. While some may have supported slavery while others did not, it did not seem like their main motivations for siding with the Confederacy. The Irish wished to rework pro-slavery to meet their ends and views so they could improve their home and increase their social standing, but they also wished to bar slaves from social inclusion showing that they did not consider slaves worthy of social inclusion and thus their support for the South.
Home, a term which relates to the place that we believe that we belong too. These immigrants planned on raising their families in their new home. Thus they would feel that they needed to defend it for the sake of their families future. Since the war would likely bring fighting to the areas in which their families lived and the opposing forces would likely not differentiate who was truly siding with the Confederacy, the Irish feared what could happen to their new homes if they did not assist. Even though the Union forces were going to attack or ransack all who they came across, it was a natural fear of all who lived in the possible war zone.