Germans in the Civil War : the letters they wrote home /
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 book contains a collection of lette...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935- editor. Kamphoefner, Walter D., editor. Vogel, Susan Carter, translator. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English German |
| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006. |
| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction ; German Immigrants and Politics in the Civil War Era ; German Immigrants in the Union Army
- Letters ; Eastern Theater ; Otto Albrecht ; Private Alexander Dupre, Emile Dupre, and Lottie Dupre ; Wesslau Family ; Christoph Barthel, Anna-Katharina Odensass, and Jacob Odensass ; Augustin Family ; Corporal Robert Rossi ; Private Friedrich Schmalzried ; First Lieutenant Alphons Richter ; Corporal Wilhelm Albrecht ; Carl Hermanns ; Caroline Eversmeier ; Dunnebacke Family ; Captain August Horstmann ; Private Wilhelm Hoffmann ; First Lieutenant Peter Boffinger ; Sergeant Wilhelm Francksen ; First Lieutenant Emil Cornelius Knoebel ; Surgeon Carl Uterhard ; Johann Philipp Heubach ; Corporal Jakob Heinzelmann ; Private Gustav Keppler ; Sergeant Albert Krause ; Christian Harring ; Barbara Pack and Nikolaus Pack ; Matthias Leclerc ; Private August Strohsahl (alias Henry Johnson, alias August Warner) ; Petty Officer Eduard Treutlein (alias Edward Smith) ; Jakob Kessler ; Victor Klausmeyer ; Kaspar Herbst and Agatha Herbst ; Muller Family
- Western Theater ; Surgeon Magnus Brucker ; Monn Family ; Private Dietrich Gerstein ; Corporal Ludwig Wilhelm Kuhner and Private Karl Friedrich Kuhner ; Johann (John) Dieden ; Private Paul Petasch ; Second Lieutenant Friedrich Martens ; Private David Bopple and Family ; Christian Bonsel ; Sergeant Ferdinand Krieger ; Private Franz Schorse ; Bernhard Buschmann ; Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Weinrich ; First Lieutenant Karl Adolph Frick and Alwine Frick ; Private Georg Bauer ; Private Ludwig Muller (Louis W. Miller) ; Private Carl Anton (Charles) Ruff ; Private Johann Christoph Penzler ; Private Anton Herman Bullenhaar ; Heinrich Stahler ; Kessel and Ruckels Families ; Dr. Hermann Nagel ; Captain Robert Voigt, CSA ; Captain Ernst Cramer and Ferdinand Simon ; Private Georg Wilhelm Schwarting ; Private Ludwig (Louis) Lehmann, CSA, and Friederike Lehmann ; Epilogue: Reconstruction.