Germans in the Civil War
The Letters They Wrote Home
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2006
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New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3044-4 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3044-4 (ISBN)
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German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a different angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience.
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 German 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.
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 German 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.
WALTER D. KAMPHOEFNER is professor of history at Texas A&M University. WOLFGANG HELBICH is professor emeritus of North American history at Ruhr Universitat Bochum. They have collaborated on four previous books, including News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home and German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Civil War America
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2006 |
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Reihe/Serie | Civil War America |
Übersetzer | Susan Carter Vogel |
Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8078-3044-5 / 0807830445 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-3044-4 / 9780807830444 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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