Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 222 p., [16] p. of plates)
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ill., plans
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24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0823226506
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9780823226504
Series Statement:
The North's Civil War series
Content:
Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Drawing on German-language newspapers, soldiers' letters, memoirs and regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battle and its aftermath
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index
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German Americans, Know Nothings, and the outbreak of the warBefore Chancellorsville : Sigel, Blenker, and the reinforcement of German ethnicity in the Union Army, 1861-1862 -- The battle of Chancellorsville and the German regiments of the Eleventh Corps -- "Retreating and cowardly poltroons" : the Anglo American reaction -- "All we ask is justice" : the Germans respond -- Nativism and German ethnicity after Chancellorsville -- Chancellorsville and the Civil War in German American memory.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823226504
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chancellorsville and the Germans
Language:
English
