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Chancellorsville and the Germans - Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (Hardcover)
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Chancellorsville and the Germans - Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (Hardcover)
Series: The North's Civil War
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Often called Leeas 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
aStonewalla Jackson and became the scapegoat for the Northern
defeat, blamed by many on the aflighta of German immigrant troops.
The impact on Americaas large German community was devastating. But
there is much more to the story than that. Drawing for the first
time on German-language newspapers, soldiersa letters, memoirs, and
regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battle and
its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and
civilian. He offers a fascinating window into a misunderstood past,
one where the German soldiersa valor has been either minimized or
dismissed as cowardly. He critically analyzes the performance of
the German regiments and documents the impact of nativism on
Anglo-American and German-American reactionsaand on German
self-perceptions as patriots and Americans. For German-Americans,
the ghost of Chancellorsville lingered long, and Keller traces its
effects not only on ethnic identity, but also on the dynamics of
inclusion andassimilation in American life.
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