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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456582803321

Autore

Keller Christian B

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8232-3489-4

0-8232-4754-6

0-8232-2652-2

1-4416-4473-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

The North's Civil War series

Disciplina

973.7/33

Soggetti

Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863

German American soldiers - History - 19th century

German Americans - History - 19th century

German Americans - Social conditions - 19th century

Nativistic movements - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.