Melting Pot Soldiers : : The Union Ethnic Regiments / / William L. Burton.
Melting Pot Soldiers is the story of the way immigrants responded to the drama of the Civil War. When the war began in 1861, there were, in most states in the North (primarily from Western Europe), large populations of immigrants whose leaders were active in American politics at the local, state, an...
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Burton, William L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Melting Pot Soldiers : The Union Ethnic Regiments / William L. Burton. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021] ©1998 1 online resource (282 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The North's Civil War Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Ethnic Politics -- 3 "The War Is Commenced" -- 4 Recruiting the Ethnics -- 5 The German Regiments -- 6 The Irish Regiments -- 7 The Others -- 8 Song and Story -- 9 The Ethnic Factor -- 10 "What Then Is the American, This New Man?" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Melting Pot Soldiers is the story of the way immigrants responded to the drama of the Civil War. When the war began in 1861, there were, in most states in the North (primarily from Western Europe), large populations of immigrants whose leaders were active in American politics at the local, state, and national levels. Just as native-born Americans, both individually and collectively, reacted to war, so did these newcomers. A characteristic feature of the formation of the Union armies was the role played by politicians in the recruitment of the regiment, the basic unit of the army. Ethnic politicians (and a few were women!) like their native-born counterparts, actively recruited young men into regiments- in this case regiments based upon the country of origin of the recruits. There were dozens of such regiments, mostly German and Irish, but also a Scandinavian unit, a polygot outfit, and there was an attempt to form a Scottish regiment. AS the war progressed and casualties mounted, these regiments gradually lost their ethnic composition. Ethnic entreprenuers were the key figures in the organization of these regiments, and such men ordinarily intended to parlay their military service into a post-war political career. Burton examines the impact ethnic entreprenuers had during the war, both by their key role in the organization of their regiments and by their post-war political careers. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 9783110743296 print 9780823218288 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296071 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823296071 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823296071/original |
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