| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert N. Rosen -- The "period of the great German-American symbiosis": immigration & settlement, 1820-1860 -- In the land of masters and slaves: the urban south as the new home of German immigrants -- Know-nothing nativism in Richmond, New Orleans, and Charleston in the 1850's: the dress rehearsal for 1861 -- The antebellum militias of South Carolina and Virginia up to December, 1860: organization and significance -- Goliath and his pygmies: the German antebellum militias in New Orleans -- The military participation of the ethnic German minority in Charleston, Richmond, and New Orleans (1861-1865) -- Anaconda & martial law: the Germans of the Confederacy in the stranglehold of the enemy -- The first phase of reconstruction, 1865-1870: a new beginning for the ethnic German minority -- Appendices: A. Ethnic German companies of South Carolina -- B. Ethnic German companies of Virginia -- C. Ethnic German companies of Louisiana -- D. Comparative population statistics: Germans in the south (1850-1870) |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Germans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century
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Germans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century
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Germans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Germans
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Military participation -- German
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Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, German
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Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022691
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Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113936
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New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091384
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Louisiana -- New Orleans
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South Carolina -- Charleston
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United States
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Virginia -- Richmond
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USA -- Südstaaten
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Deutsche
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011007993 |
| ISBN |
9783110236897 |
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3110236893 |
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1283166836 |
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9781283166836 |
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9786613166838 |
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6613166839 |
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