Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory /

Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory /

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Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Drawing on German-language newspapers, soldiers' letters, memoirs and regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battl...

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Author / Creator: Keller, Christian B.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Series:North's Civil War.
Subjects:
United States. > Army of the Potomac. > Corps, 11th.
United States. > Army of the Potomac. > Corps, 11th
1800-1899
Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863.
German American soldiers > History > 19th century.
German Americans > History > 19th century.
German Americans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Nativism > History > 19th century.
Nativistic movements > United States > History > 19th century.
German American soldiers
German Americans
German Americans > Social conditions
Military participation > German American
Nativistic movements
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, German American.
United States
Virginia > Chancellorsville
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • German Americans, Know Nothings, and the outbreak of the war
  • Before Chancellorsville : Sigel, Blenker, and the reinforcement of German ethnicity in the Union Army, 1861-1862
  • The battle of Chancellorsville and the German regiments of the Eleventh Corps
  • "Retreating and cowardly poltroons" : the Anglo American reaction
  • "All we ask is justice" : the Germans respond
  • Nativism and German ethnicity after Chancellorsville
  • Chancellorsville and the Civil War in German American memory.

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