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1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages) : illustrations, map |
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data file |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, German.
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Germans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
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Germans. |
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South Carolina -- Charleston. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Germans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century.
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Virginia -- Richmond. |
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Germans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mehrländer, Andrea. Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War period, 1850-1870. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011 9783110236880 (DLC) 2011007993 (OCoLC)697459675 |
| ISBN |
9783110236897 (electronic book) |
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3110236893 (electronic book) |
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1283166836 |
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9781283166836 |
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9783110236880 |
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3110236885 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110236897 |
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