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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The North's Civil War
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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