The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870

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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.

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Andrea Mehrländer

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Civil War History of Emigration to the USA History of U.S. Slavery North American History Nordamerikanische Geschichte Sezessionskrieg Auswanderungsgeschichte USA

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