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Carl Schurz - A Biography (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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Carl Schurz - A Biography (Paperback, 2 Ed)
Series: The North's Civil War
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The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the
age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became
involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the
revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the
siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to
rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin.
This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852,
Schurz was nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin on the
Republican ticket. He quickly rose in the party and was the head of
the Wisconsin delegation at the 1860 National Convention. He worked
hard for the cause, and Lincoln rewarded him with the post of
Minister to Spain. At the outbreak of war he returned to join the
Union Army, became a Major General, and took part in several
important battles. After the war, he moved to Missouri, was elected
Senator from that State, and became a role model for his fellow
German Americans. In 1871 he became one of the main figures in the
Liberal Republican movement, and in 1877 President Rutherford B.
Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Interior. After his retirement
from the cabinet, Schurz became active in the politics of New York,
as an advocate of municipal and civil service reform. He was a
leading Mugwump who supported Grover Cleveland in 1884 and at the
end of his life became a violent opponent of imperialism. He died
in 1906. Carl Schurz, the man, his story, his ideals and his
example, are particularly appropriate today because of the light
his life sheds on the never-ending problems of immigration,
assimilation, and the retention of ethnic identity. Carl Schurzas
career furnishes a modelexample for all of these.
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