[steve-b]

Some of the Irish in New York City were sympathetic to the Confederacy.... None of this was depicted.

WTF? The movie included repeated clear depictions of the Irish mob disdain for the Union (e.g. the vegetable bombardment of the Uncle Tom's Cabin stage play).

[Wallace T.]

The vegetable bombardment of the Uncle Tom's Cabon show was a mixed message. It was the nativist leader played by Daniel Day-Lewis who led the vegetable bombardment. The placards saying, "New York Should Secede," were held by people not identified as either Irish Catholic or English Protestant. As I mentioned previously, "Bill the Butcher" is shown as anti-Lincoln and pro-slavery. In actuality, the former Know Nothings, largely working class men of English Protestant background, migrated to the Republican Party after the American and Whig parties collapsed. A real life Bill the Butcher would have been pro-Union and pro-Lincoln.