Tag: chancellorsville and the germans
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Joseph R. Reinhart Responds to Chancellorsville and the Germans Review
I recently received a long and interesting email from TOCWOC reader Joseph R. Reinhart about my review of Christian Keller’s book Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. Mr. Reinhart has been researching German-American involvement in the Civil War for over 15 years. He is the editor of August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: […]
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Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller
Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely […]
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Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller
I received Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory in the mail on Tuesday from Fordham University Press. As a German-American, this particular book has special meaning for me. Christian B. Keller ties the scapegoating of the predominantly German Union XI Corps after Chancellorsville to a slowed process of assimilation by German-Americans […]