Germans in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germans in the Civil War write by Walter D. Kamphoefner. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Germans in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Germans in the Civil War
Germans in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germans in the Civil War write by Walter D. Kamphoefner. This book was released on 2017-11-30. Germans in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home
The Germans in the American Civil War
The Germans in the American Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Germans in the American Civil War write by Wilhelm Kaufmann. This book was released on 1999. The Germans in the American Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This singular account of an estimated 216,000 Germans, mostly newly-arrived immigrants and about 300,000 Americans of German descent, who served in the American Civil War is an unprecedented event in the publication of material on U.S. military history. Written by a successful German immigrant, publishing entrepreneur and journalist, Wilhelm Kaufmann, 1847-1920, this book was originally published in 1911 by Munich Publisher R. Oldenbourg in the German Language only. In their Civil War Centennial book, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography, published in 1967, the distinguished contributors, Allen Nevins, James I. Robertson, Jr., and Bell I. Wiley, wrote of Kaufmann's history: Finally, after two world wars and the consequent anti-German sentiment and the neglect that discouraged publication, a new Edition -- in English for the first time -- is now available. Scholars, general readers, genealogists and people who wish to explore their own German heritage will welcome this penetrating account -- now with enhanced features: readable type, larger maps (36 in all) designed for clarity; and now, most importantly, fully indexed for more effective reference use. Available in both a quality genuine clothbound as well as an economical paperback edition, this history deserves a place on your permanent library shelf. 392pp., 36 maps, bibliography, end notes, index.
German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era write by Alison Clark Efford. This book was released on 2013-05-20. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study reframes Civil War-era history, arguing that the Franco-Prussian War contributed to a dramatic pivot in Northern commitment to African-American rights.
The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870
The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 write by Andrea Mehrländer. This book was released on 2011-05-26. The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war. A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana, with names, place of origin, rank, occupation, income, and number of slaves owned. This book is a highly useful reference work for historians, military scholars and genealogists conducting research on Germans in the American Civil War and the American South.
