Chancellorsville and the Germans : : Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory /

Chancellorsville and the Germans : : Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory / / Christian B. Keller.

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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. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by “Stonewall” Jackson and became the scapegoat for the Northern defeat, blamed by many on the “flight...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Keller, Christian B.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The North's Civil War
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.) :; 20 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 German Americans, Know Nothings, and the Outbreak of the War
  • 2 Before Chancellorsville: Sigel, Blenker, and the Reinforcement of German Ethnicity in the Union Army, 1861–1862
  • 3 The Battle of Chancellorsville and the German Regiments of the Eleventh Corps
  • 4 ‘‘Retreating and Cowardly Poltroons’’: The Anglo American Reaction
  • 5 ‘‘All We Ask Is Justice’’: The Germans Respond
  • 6 Nativism and German Ethnicity after Chancellorsville
  • 7 Chancellorsville and the Civil War in German American Memory
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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