History of the 24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Old Hecker Regiment).
Author: William Wagner
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 46
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Author: William Wagner
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 46
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781333930172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from History of the 24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment: Old Hecker Regiment The regiment was composed entirely of American citizens of German birth Who on the call to arms by President Lincoln promptly responded in defense of their adopted country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: W. Wagner
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 5871952895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe following history of the 24th Illinois Infantry Regiment was compiled in 1864 by Dr. William Wagner, the surgeon of the Regiment. It was written in German and is now reprinted and a translation given — on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of whe muster-in of the Regiment. The regiment was composed entirely of American citizens of Grerman birth who on the call to arms by President Lincoln promptly responded in defense of their adopted country. Chicago, July, 1911.
Author: Sabine Freitag
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780963980472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFriedrich Hecker (1811-1881) lived the first half of his life in the Grand Duchy of Baden, a small state in southern Germany. He was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. There he spent the second half of his life as a farmer in southern Illinois, helping to found the Republican Party and campaigning among his countrymen in local and national elections. During the Civil War he served bravely, fighting in some of the most important battles. Although much better known in Germany than in America, he founded a remarkable family in the Midwest that is still flourishing and is a major example of the melding of the European and American traditions of liberty. The work draws heavily from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library.
Author: Kristopher A. Teters
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1469638878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent in its support of liberating the slaves in general, in spite of Union army officers' differences of opinion. By 1863 and the final Emancipation Proclamation, the army had transformed into the key force for instituting emancipation in the West. However, Kristopher Teters argues that the guiding principles behind this development in attitudes and policy were a result of military necessity and pragmatic strategies, rather than an effort to enact racial equality. Through extensive research in the letters and diaries of western Union officers, Teters demonstrates how practical considerations drove both the attitudes and policies of Union officers regarding emancipation. Officers primarily embraced emancipation and the use of black soldiers because they believed both policies would help them win the war and save the Union, but their views on race actually changed very little. In the end, however, despite its practical bent, Teters argues, the Union army was instrumental in bringing freedom to the slaves.
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 644
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKV. 3 no. 1 has supplement: Gustav Körner, deutsche-amerikanischer jurist, staatsmann, diplomat und geschichtschriber. Ein lebensbild von H. A. Rattermann.
Author: Harold Holzer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0451489020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society. Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 398
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 586
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