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The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870
A Study and Research Compendium
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The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870
A Study and Research Compendium
About this book
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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Yes, you can access The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 by Andrea Mehrländer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & American Civil War History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Robert N. Rosen
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. The “Period of the Great German-American Symbiosis”: Immigration & Settlement, 1820–1860
- II. In the Land of Masters and Slaves: the Urban South as the New Home of German Immigrants
- III. Know-Nothing Nativism in Richmond, New Orleans, and Charleston in the 1850’s: the Dress Rehearsal for 1861.
- IV. The Antebellum Militias of South Carolina and Virginia up to December, 1860: Organization and Significance
- V. Goliath and his Pygmies: The German Antebellum Militias in New Orleans
- VI. The Military Participation of the Ethnic German minority in Charleston, Richmond, and New Orleans (1861–1865)
- VII. Anaconda & Martial Law: The Germans of the Confederacy in the Stranglehold of the Enemy
- VIII. The First Phase of Reconstruction, 1865–1870: a New Beginning for the Ethnic German Minority
- Conclusions
- Bibliography and Sources
- Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections
- Contemporary Sources
- Other published Primary Sources
- Newspapers
- Secondary Sources and Reference Works
- Appendix A: Ethnic German Companies of South Carolina
- Appendix B: Ethnic German Companies of Virginia
- Appendix C: Ethnic German Companies of Louisiana
- Appendix D: Comparative Population Statistics: Germans in the South (1850–1870)
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- Index