Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870
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- ISBN 9783110236880
- Weight: 905g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2011
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war.
A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana, with names, place of origin, rank, occupation, income, and number of slaves owned.
This book is a highly useful reference work for historians, military scholars and genealogists conducting research on Germans in the American Civil War and the American South.
Andrea Mehrländer, Managing Director of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Berlin
