Germans in the Civil War The Letters They Wrote Home / edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich ; translated by Susan Carter Vogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935-

Kamphoefner, Walter D.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil war America Germans in the Civil War.

Standardized Title:

Deutsche im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.

Immigrants--United States--Correspondence.

Immigrants.

German Americans--Correspondence.

German Americans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Immigrant.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred lette

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Editorial Approach; INTRODUCTION; German Immigrants and Politics in the Civil War Era; German Immigrants in the Union Army; Letters; EASTERN THEATER; 1. Otto Albrecht; 2. Private Alexander Dupré, Emile Dupré,and Lottie Dupré; 3. Wesslau Family; 4. Christoph Barthel, Anna-Katharina Odensaβ, and Jacob Odensaβ; 5. Augustin Family; 6. Corporal Robert Rossi; 7. Private Friedrich Schmalzried; 8. First Lieutenant Alphons Richter; 9. Corporal Wilhelm Albrecht; 10. Carl Hermanns; 11. Caroline Eversmeier; 12. Dünnebacke Family

13. Captain August Horstmann14. Private Wilhelm Hoffmann; 15. First Lieutenant Peter Boffinger; 16. Sergeant Wilhelm Francksen; 17. First Lieutenant Emil Cornelius Knoebel; 18. Surgeon Carl Uterhard; 19. Johann Philipp Heubach; 20. Corporal Jakob Heinzelmann; 21. Private Gustav Keppler; 22. Sergeant Albert Krause; 23. Christian Härring; 24. Barbara Pack and Nikolaus Pack; 25. Matthias Leclerc; 26. Private August Strohsahl (alias Henry Johnson, alias August Warner); 27. Petty Officer Eduard Treutlein (alias Edward Smith); 28. Jakob Kessler; 29. Victor Klausmeyer

30. Kaspar Herbst and Agatha Herbst31. Müller Family; WESTERN THEATER; 32. Surgeon Magnus Brucker; 33. Monn Family; 34. Private Dietrich Gerstein; 35. Corporal Ludwig Wilhelm Kühner and Private Karl Friedrich Kühner; 36. Johann (John) Dieden; 37. Private Paul Petasch; 38. Second Lieutenant Friedrich Martens; 39. Private David Böpple and Family; 40. Christian Bönsel; 41. Sergeant Ferdinand Krieger; 42. Private Franz Schorse; 43. Bernhard Buschmann; 44. Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Weinrich; 45. First Lieutenant Karl Adolph Frick and Alwine Frick; 46. Private Georg Bauer

47. Private Ludwig Müller (Louis W.Miller)48. Private Carl Anton (Charles) Ruff; 49. Private Johann Christoph Penzler; 50. Private Anton Herman Bullenhaar; 51. Heinrich Stähler; 52. Kessel and Rückels Families; 53. Dr. Hermann Nagel; 54. Captain Robert Voigt, CSA; 55. Captain Ernst Cramer and Ferdinand Simon; 56. Private Georg Wilhelm Schwarting; 57. Private Ludwig (Louis) Lehmann, CSA and Friederike Lehmann; Epilogue: Reconstruction; Glossary; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; Bibliography; Donors of Letters and Materials; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O

PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

"Originally published in German with the title Deutsche im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg : Briefe von Front und Farm, 1861-1865, 2002, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-503) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908807-9-6

1-4696-0541-4

0-8078-7659-3

OCLC:

704594602