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Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers.
Damn Dutch
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Authors: David L. Valuska
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Highlights the Pennsylvania Dutch regiments and post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Germans in the Civil War
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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 h
The Germans in the American Civil War
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Authors: Wilhelm Kaufmann
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This singular account of an estimated 216,000 Germans, mostly newly-arrived immigrants and about 300,000 Americans of German descent, who served in the American
Civil War Citizens
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