Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory /
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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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2007. |
Series: | North's Civil War.
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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.