Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory / Christian B. Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Christian B.

Series:

North's Civil War.

The North's Civil War series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863.

German American soldiers--History--19th century.

German American soldiers.

German Americans--History--19th century.

German Americans.

German Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

Nativistic movements--United States--History--19th century.

Nativistic movements.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, German American.

United States.

United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 11th.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 battle and its aftermath.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3489-4

0-8232-4754-6

0-8232-2652-2

1-4416-4473-3

OCLC:

647876370