The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 : A Study and Research Compendium （2011. XIV, 442 S. 56 b/w ill., 49 b/w tbl. 240 mm）

Mehrlaender, Andrea

DE GRUYTER（2011発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 440 p.
• 商品コード 9783110236880

Full Description

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.