Front cover image for Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory

Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory

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

eBook, English, 2007
Fordham University Press, New York, 2007