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German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the
Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union
troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily
lives-both on the battlefield and on the home front-during the war.
This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends
and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of
the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions
about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published
in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three
hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and
women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their
missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering,
motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement
altogether. Although written by people with a variety of
backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly
German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim
that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic
antagonisms.
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