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After the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1848 and 1849, thousands of Hungarians fled to the United States, an influx dubbed the Kossuth Emigration after failed revolutionary leader Lajos Kossuth. During the American Civil War, many of these Kossuth emigres joined the ranks of the Union or Confederate armies. The book explores their motivations and the military role they played, often challenging the hero-making mechanisms of traditional ethnic history-writing that has gone before.
The lengthy biographical dictionary of all Hungarian-born Civil War participants fills a longstanding gap in Civil War genealogy. With a deft blend of modern Civil War studies, military history, migration and ethnic studies, and historical memory, this study makes a significant contribution to the history of Hungarian-Americans and the often overlooked subject of non-nationals in the Civil War.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Martyrs of Freedom
Part I: History
Chapter One. "To These Shores I Was Driven by Tyranny": Hungarian Emigration to the United States in the 1850s
Chapter Two. "Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita, Si Est Vita, Non Est Ita": Kossuth Émigrés in the United States
Chapter Three. "To See This Great Country United Again": Hungarians' Motivations to Enlist in the Union and Confederate Armies
Chapter Four. Taking Up Arms in the Civil War
Chapter Five. The Triumvirate: the Civil War Careers of Asboth, Stahel and Zagonyi
Chapter Six. An International Fraud: Colonel Béla Estván
Chapter Seven. "'Furreners,' Yankees, and 'Nigger Lovers'": Slavery and Hungarians in the Colored Regiments
Chapter Eight. The Aftermath: Kossuth Émigrés in the Post-Civil War Years
Part II: Biographical Dictionary
Appendix: Misspellings and Anglicized Versions of Hungarian Names in American Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
