The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War period, 1850-1870 : a study and research compendium /

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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 immig...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mehrländer, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011.
Temas:
1800-1899
Germans > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Germans > Virginia > Richmond > History > 19th century.
Germans > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Allemands > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Allemands > Virginie > Richmond > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Allemands > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Germans
Military participation > German
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, German.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Richmond (Va.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
New Orleans (La.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Louisiana > New Orleans
South Carolina > Charleston
United States
Virginia > Richmond
USA > Südstaaten
Deutsche
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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).

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