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Radical Warrior - August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General (Hardcover, Edition, Maps By Hal Jespersen Ed.)
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Radical Warrior - August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General (Hardcover, Edition, Maps By Hal Jespersen Ed.)
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An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army
during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary
foreign-born population. One of these, Prussian Army officer Johann
August Ernst von Willich, led a remarkable life of integrity,
commitment to a cause, and interaction with leading lights of the
nineteenth century. After resigning from the Prussian Army due to
his republican beliefs, Willich led armed insurrections during the
revolutions of 1848-49, with Friedrich Engels as his aide-de-camp.
Ever committed to the goal of universal human rights, he once
dueled a disciple of Karl Marx-whom he thought too conservative.
Willich emigrated to the United States in 1853, eventually making
his way to Cincinnati, where he served as editor of the daily labor
newspaper the Cincinnati Republican. With exhaustive research in
both English and German language sources, author David T. Dixon
chronicles the life of this ingenious military leader-a man who
could also be stubborn, impulsive, and even foolhardy-risking his
life unnecessarily in the face of overwhelming odds. As soon as
shots were fired at Fort Sumter, fifty-year-old Willich helped
raise a regiment to fight for the Union. Though he had been a
lieutenant in Europe, he enlisted as a private. He later commanded
an all-German regiment, rose to the rank of brigadier general, and
was later brevetted major general. Dixon's vivid narrative places
the Civil War in a global context. For Willich and other so-called
"Forty-Eighters" who emigrated after the European revolutions, the
nature and implications of the conflict turned not on Lincoln's
conservative goal of maintaining the national Union, but on issues
of social justice, including slavery, free labor, and popular
self-government. It was a war not simply to heal sectional divides,
but to restore the soul of the nation and, in Willich's own words,
"defend the rights of man.
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