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The majority of German settlers in the valley belonged to Anabaptist denominations, such as the Mennonites, the Dunkers (now known as the Brethren), and others. Smaller and later numbers of settlers were German Catholics or German Jews. Such German Americans were the earliest European settlers of the Shenandoah Valley, mostly in the northern ...
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed].More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
An alternative interpretation commonly found among laypeople and scholars alike is that the Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is an anglicization or "corruption" (folk-etymological re-interpretation) of the Pennsylvania German autonym deitsch, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general.
Following the War of 1812 in North America, a wave of German immigrants came from the Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, and Bohemia. Many fled from Germany between 1812 and 1814, during the War of the Sixth Coalition , (1812-1814), the last of the series of French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars , in order to avoid military conscription ...
Germantown Township occupied the area known as the Germantown Tract surveyed by Thomas Holmes in 1683, [1] and depicted on his map of about 1687. The survey was prepared for Francis Daniel Pastorius, agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, and 13 German families, known as the "Original Thirteen Families", from Krefeld, Germany and nearby areas.
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
In 1729, German settlers arrived in what later became Frederick County in 1748 then a part of the British colonial Province of Maryland. The first settlement created by the settlers of the county was Monocacy, [ 3 ] which was founded between 1725 and 1730, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] making it the oldest settlement in Western Maryland. [ 3 ]
The 75th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was composed almost entirely of German-speaking residents of Philadelphia and newly arrived German immigrants. Total enrollment, over the course of the war, was 1,293 officers and men. [1]