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Chancellorsville and the Germans
2007
Overview
Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by StonewallJackson and became the scapegoat for the Northern defeat, blamed by many on the flightof German immigrant troops. The impact on America's large German community was devastating. But there is much more to the story than that. Drawing for the first time on German-language newspapers, soldiers' letters, memoirs, and regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and civilian. He offers a fascinating window into a misunderstood past, one where the German soldiers' valor has been either minimized or dismissed as cowardly. He critically analyzes the performance of the German regiments and documents the impact of nativism on Anglo-American and German-American reactions-and on German self-perceptions as patriots and Americans. For German-Americans, the ghost of Chancellorsville lingered long, and Keller traces its effects not only on ethnic identity, but also on the dynamics of inclusion andassimilation in American life.
Publisher
Fordham University Press,Fordham Unviersity Press
Subject
/ Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863
/ Civil War Period (1850-1877)
/ German American soldiers -- History -- 19th century
/ German Americans -- History -- 19th century
/ German Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
/ HISTORY
/ Nativism
/ Nativistic movements - United States - History - 19th century
/ Participation, German American
/ Soldiers
/ U.S.A
/ United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, German American
ISBN
0823226506, 9780823226504
