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Melting Pot Soldiers - The Union Ethnic Regiments (Hardcover, 2)
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Melting Pot Soldiers - The Union Ethnic Regiments (Hardcover, 2)
Series: The North's Civil War
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Melting Pot Soldiers is the story of how immigrants responded to
the drama of the Civil War. When the war began in 1861, there were,
in most states in the North, large populations of immigrants
(primarily from Western Europe) whose leaders were active in
American politics at the local, state, and national level. 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. There were dozens of such regiments, mostly
German and Irish, but also a Scandinavian unit, 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 entrepreneurs 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.
Some succeeded; some lost their lives. The book stresses the social
and political situation in the Union states from which the
phenomenon of the ethnic regiments emerged, the individual leaders
involved, relationships with the larger society, political fighting
within and between the various ethnic groups, and the impact the
war had on the ethnics. Central to this book is the theme that the
war promoted assimilation - something of a paradox given the
creation of separate regiments. Most immigrant volunteers, by the
way, served in regiments that were not of specific ethnicity.
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