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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.
The 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that was a part of the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] The members of the regiment were primarily of German descent and the unit was the first almost all-German unit to enter the Union Army. [2]
Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War (1861–1865) reflected the conflict's international significance among both governments and their citizenry. Diplomatic and popular interest were aroused by the United States' status as a nascent power at the time, and by the war's central cause being the globally divisive issue of slavery. [ 2 ]
Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals and Soldiers, 2V, Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, 1895, Vol. 2, pp. 572–575. Tafel, Gustav. "The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War." Translated and edited with Supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
32nd Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry was a Union Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War.It was also known as Indiana's "1st German" regiment because its members were mainly of German descent.
The XI Corps was an amalgamation of two separate commands. These were John Fremont's Army of the Mountain Department and Louis Blenker's division of German immigrants. . Blenker had led a German brigade at First Bull Run, although it was held in reserve and saw no major fighting, and afterward became a division commander in the new Army of the Pot
The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War (Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Co.), 2010. ISBN 978-1-932250-86-2 [Original title: Geschichte der Deutschen Cincinnati's im Bürgerkriege. Translated and edited with supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.] ISBN 1-932250-86-7. Attribution
45th N. Y. Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument at Gettysburg Flank marker. The 45th New York Infantry Regiment, also known as the 5th German Rifles, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.