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Published, printed materials detailing military and civilian participation in the American Civil War are found here. Racial, ethnic, cultural and religious groups are represented. Selected unit histories, veteran memoirs, and studies of the war's impact on immigrant and racial minority soldiers make up the greatest part of this guide. Books about the war's effects on immigrant and minority civilians are also presented. Included works on or by prominent individuals include biographies/memoirs of General Patrick Cleburne, Frederick Douglass, General Thomas Meagher, General Ely Parker, General Franz Sigel, Robert Smalls, Harriet Tubman, Loreta Janeta Velazquez and General Stand Watie.
Individuals who remained citizens of foreign countries are included in each cultural group when identified.
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Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era
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The Blessed Place of Freedom: Europeans in Civil War America
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The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
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Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict
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The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle
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Foreigners in the Confederacy
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Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy
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Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War
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Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War
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Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments
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Race and Radicalism in the Union Army
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True Sons of the Republic: European Immigrants in the Union Army
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The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: A History and Roster
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African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
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Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War
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Blacks in Gray Uniforms: A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865
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Black Soldiers - Black Sailors - Black Ink: Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526-1900
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Black Soldiers in the War of the Slaveowners' Rebellion: Selected Letters and Papers
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Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies
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Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy
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Borrowed Identity: 128th United States Colored Troops: Multiple-name Usage by Black Civil War Veterans Who Served with Union Regiments Organized in South Carolina
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Captaining the Corps D'Afrique: The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin
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The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry: How a Confederate Artillery Battery and a Black Union Regiment Defined the War
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The Combahee River Raid: Harriet Tubman & Lowcountry Liberation
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Duty Driven: The Plight of North Alabama's African Americans During the Civil War
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The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
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For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops
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Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
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Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
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Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York
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German-Speaking Officers in the U. S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867
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Glory at Fort Wagner: The 54th Massachusetts Strikes a Key Blow Against Slavery
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A History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Infantry in the Civil War: The Real Story Behind the Movie Glory
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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
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I Freed Myself: African American Self-emancipation in the Civil War Era
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Lincoln and the U. S. Colored Troops
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Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War
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Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War
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Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory
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The Negro as a Soldier in the War of the Rebellion
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Negroes and the National War Effort, an Address by Frederick Douglass
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The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity
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Out of the Briars: An Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers
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Paying Freedom's Price: A History of African Americans in the Civil War
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The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
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Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
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President Lincoln's Recruiter: General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
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Race and Recruitment
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A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
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Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder
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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers
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Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland, 1863-65
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
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The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
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The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
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Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit
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Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels
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Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America
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U. S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry: Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864
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Union County's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War
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United States Colored Troop: Importance in Civil War
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African Canadians in Union Blue: Enlisting for the Cause in the Civil War
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My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
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Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War
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Chinese Yankee: A True Story from the Civil War
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Australian Confederates: How 42 Australians Joined the Rebel Cause and Fired the Last Shot in the American Civil War
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En marge de la Guerre de sécession: recrutements en Belgique pour les troupes fédérales, 1864-1865
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La Belgique et la guerre de sécession: 1861-1865: étude diplomatique
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The Second Battle: A Story of Our Belgian Ancestors in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
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Vechten met Lincoln: de Belgen in de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog, 1861-1865
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Battle-Field of the South: From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh: With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps
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British Ships in the Confederate Navy
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Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate
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A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden
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My Dear Parents: An Englishman's Letters Home from the American Civil War
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Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
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Canada and the American Civil War: Prelude to War
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Canadian Blood, American Soil: The Story of Canada's Contribution to the American Civil War
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Canadians in the Civil War
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Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era, 1861-1865
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In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces
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Les Canadiens français et la guerre de Sécession, 1861-1865: une autre dimension de leur migration aux États-Unis
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Quebec/Canada et la Guerre de Secession Americaine 1861-1865
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Voisins et ennemis : la Guerre de Sécession et l'invention du Canada
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Dengang Jeg Drog Af Sted ...: danske immigranter i Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig
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I krig for Lincoln: dansk blod i den amerikanske borgerkrig
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Louis Dobbelmann, 1837-1901: Yankee en Rotterdammer
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Vechten voor het beloofde land: Nederlanders in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog (1861-1865)
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1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis
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Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era, 1861-1865
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A Frenchman Fights for the Union: Victor Vifquain and the 97th Illinois
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Héros oubliés: les généraux français de l'armée confédérée
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Le 1er bataillon de zouaves de Louisiane: un régiment français dans l'armée confédérée durant la guerre de Sécession
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Voyage en Amérique, 1861-1862: un prince français dans la guerre de sécession / Philippe d'Orléans ; texte établi, annoté et présenté par Farid Ameur
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"Für Gans America Gehe ich nich Wieder Bei die Solldaten-- " : Briefe des Ochtruper Auswanderers Theodor Heinrich Brandes aus dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg 1862/63
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August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
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Blood Shed in This War: Civil War Illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana
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Carl Bornemann's Regiment: The Forty-first New York Infantry (Dekalb Regt.) in the Civil War
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Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
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The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War, Translated and Edited with Supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War
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A Civil War Campaign Through Missouri: Recollections of a German Soldier: Including the Original German Transcript
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Civil War Letters of Louis Lehmann: with Alexander Terrell's and James B. Likens' Texas Cavalry Regiments, 1863-1864: Copies of Original Letters of Louis Carl Lehmann, Translated from German, Reproduced with Commentary
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Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg
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Der Turner Soldat: A Turner Soldier in the Civil War: Germany to Antietam: A Biographical Narrative of a German Immigrant Who Served as a Pvt. in the 20th Reg., New York Vol.s, the United Turner Rifles: Comm. Work for the 125th Anniv. of the Am. Civil War
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Deutsche im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg: Briefe von Front und Farm, 1861-1865
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Die Deutschen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkriege
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Erinnerungen aus dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkriege: Ernstes und heiteres aus bewegter zeit
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German-Speaking Officers in the U. S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867
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German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830-1877
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A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry
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A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher
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The Germans in Texas during the Civil War: Taken from the Records of Judge August Siemering, 1876
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The Germans in the American Civil War: With a Biographical Directory
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Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home
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The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans During the Civil War Period, 1850-1870
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Giesecke's Civil War Diary: The Story of Company G of the Fourth Regiment of the First Texas Cavalry Brigade of the Army of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
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The History of a German-Polish Civil War Brigade
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An Immigrant Story
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Kriegstagebucher des 19 Jahrhunderts: Entstehung, Sprache, Edition
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Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry
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Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary
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Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
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Michael Zimmer's Diary: Ein Deutsches Tagebuch aus dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg
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Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
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New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army
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Preussens und Sachsens Beziehungen zu den USA während des Sezessionskrieges, 1860-1865
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This Day We Marched Again: A Union Soldier's Account of War in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi, the Civil War Diary of Jacob Haas
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A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army
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The Twenty Fourth Illinois Infantry Regiment: The Story of a Civil War Regiment
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Two Germans in the Civil War: The Diary of John Daeuble and the Letters of Gottfried Rentschler, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
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Yankee Dutchman: The life of Franz Sigel
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Yankee Dutchmen under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
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Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
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Your Friend, As Ever, A. Lincoln: How the Unlikely Friendship of Gustav Koerner and Abraham Lincoln Changed America
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Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863-1866
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The Civil War, 1840s-1890s
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Civil War in Texas and New Mexico Territory
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Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Josʹe Gonzales
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Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez
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Hispanic Confederates
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Hispanos y Españoles en la Guerra de Secesión Americana
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An Imposter of No Ordinary Rank: the true story of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, alias Confederate Lt. Harry T. Buford, and her Civil War memoir, The woman in battle
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Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate soldier impersonator, media celebrity, and con artist
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A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate: Las Memorias de un Mexicoamericano en la Confederación
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Loreta Janeta Velázquez: Cuban Confederate Soldier
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Mexican Texans in the Union Army
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Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de La Garza and Manuel Yturri
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Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
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The Woman in Battle: a narrative of the exploits, adventures, and travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez
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The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
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Béla Estván: Hungarian Cavalry Colonel in the Confederate Army
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Hungarian Emigres in the American Civil War: A History and Biographical Dictionary
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Lincoln's Hungarian Heroes: The Participation of Hungarians in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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Magyarok az észak-amerikai polgárháborúban, 1861-1865
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America's Wild Geese: The Irish in the Civil War
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Brothers 'Til Death: The Civil War Letters of William, Thomas, and Maggie Jones, 1861-1865: Irish Soldiers in the 48th New York Volunteer Regiment
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Campaigning with the Irish Brigade: Pvt. John Ryan, 28th Massachusetts
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Chicago's Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War
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The Civil War Letters of Patrick Farrington: First Sergeant, Company G, Second New York State Militia Regiment (82nd New York Infantry), 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac
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Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
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Dick Dowling: Galway's Hero of Confederate Texas
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The Faces of Irish Civil War Soldiers
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The Greatest Brigade: How the Irish Brigade Cleared the Way to Victory in the American Civil War
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Green, Blue and Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War
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The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America
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The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865
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The History of the Irish Brigade: A Collection of Historical Essays
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The History of the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June, 1861-June, 1864
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The Irish at Gettysburg
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The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns: With Some Account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers
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Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the Army of the Potomac
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Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers
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The Irish in the American Civil War
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An Irishman in the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan, Sergt., Company K, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers
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Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: The 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865
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The Last Full Measure of Devotion
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Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne (1830-1911)
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Memoirs of Chaplain Life: Three Years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac
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Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, Comprising the Leading Events of His Career Chronologically Arranged, with Selections from His Speeches, Lectures and Miscellaneous Writings, Including Personal Reminiscences
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A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on the Life and Career of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
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My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry
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My Sons Were Faithful and They Fought: The Irish Brigade at Antietam
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Paddy Owen's Regulars: A History of the 69th Pennsylvania "Irish Volunteers"
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Rebel Sons of Erin: A Civil War Unit History of the Tenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Irish) Confederate States Volunteers
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Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era
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Thomas Francis Meagher
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Thomas Francis Meagher and the Irish Brigade in the Civil War
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Through American and Irish Wars: The Life and Times of General Thomas W. Sweeny, 1820-1892
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Conquer or Die: The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry, Garibaldi Guard: A Military History
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Garibaldi Guard-Garibaldi Legion: voluntari italiani nella Guerra civile americana
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Italiani nella Guerra Civile americana, 1861-1865
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Sons of Garibaldi in Blue and Gray: Italians in the American Civil War
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Unità o libertà: Italiani e padani nella Guerra di secessione americana
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The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen
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American Jewry and the Civil War
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The Jewish Soldier from Michigan in the Civil War
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Passages Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War
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The Sons of Joshua: The Story of the Jewish Contribution to the Confederacy
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Where They Lie: The Story of the Jewish Soldiers of the North and South Whose Deaths--Killed, Mortally Wounded, or Died of Disease or Other Causes--Occurred During the Civil War, 1861-1865: Someone Should Say Kaddish
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Muslim Americans in the Military
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Albert C. Ellithorpe, the First Indian Home Guards, and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier
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The American Civil War in the Indian Territory
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The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
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The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy
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American Indians and the Civil War
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An Argument to the President of the United States: On Behalf of the 1st, 2d & 3d Indian Regiments, for Bounty, as Provided for in the Act of July 22, A. D. 1861
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Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War
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Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
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The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory
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Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict
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Communication of the Delegation of the Cherokee Nation to the President of the United States, Submitting the Memorial of Their National Council, with the Correspondence between John Ross, Principal Chief, and Certain Officers of the Rebellious States.
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The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles
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A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson
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Genealogical Records on the Confederate Indian Troops
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General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians
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Honey Springs Depot: Elk Creek, Creek Nation, Indian Territory
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Indices of Choctaw and Chickasaw Confederate Soldiers
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Letters Home from the Brothertown Boys
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The Life of General Stand Watie: The Only Indian Brigadier General of the Confederate Army and the Last General to Surrender
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Native American Mounted Rifleman 1861-65
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Oklahoma History's Grand Hoax of the Civil War
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The Prairie Was on Fire: Eyewitness Accounts of the Civil War in the Indian Territory
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Red Fox: Stand Watie and the Confederate Indian Nations During the Civil War Years in Indian Territory
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Reply of John W. Wright, Attorney for the Cherokee and Creek Indians, to Certain Libelous Statements: Published in New York Tribune, and in a Certain Pamphlet Signed by James G. Blunt
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Reply of the Southern Cherokees to the Memorial of Certain Delegates from the Cherokee Nation, Together with the Message of John Ross, ex-Chief of the Cherokees, and Proceedings of the Council of the "Loyal Cherokees," Relative to the Alliance with the So
Report of James G. Blunt, Attorney for the First Regiment (Creeks) Indian Brigade, Relative to Alleged Frauds on Payments of Pensions, Bounties and Back Pay.
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A Seneca Indian in the Union Army: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker, 1861-1865
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Stand Watie: An Analytical Study
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Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation
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Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers
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A Trail of Tears: The American Indian in the Civil War
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Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief
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Warriors in Mr. Lincoln's Army: Native American Soldiers Who Fought in the Civil War
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The Civil War Letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg
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Colonel Heg and His Boys: A Norwegian Regiment in the American Civil War
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Nordmenn i dødsleirene: tusen norske soldater døde i den amerikanske borgerkrigen = Norwegian Soldiers in the Prison Camps During the American Civil War
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Rogalendinger i den Amerikanske Borgerkrigen
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The History of a German-Polish Civil War Brigade
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Memories of Ludwik Zychlinski: Reminiscences of the American Civil War, Siberia, and Poland
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Polacy w wojnie secesyjnej 1861-1865
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Relacje polskich uczestników wojny secesyjnej
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George Pomutz: A Romanian Soldier of Distinction in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: The Story of His Life and Times
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George Pomutz: The Legend Lives On
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Blue Bonnets over the Border: The 79th New York Cameron Highlanders
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Life in the Confederate Army: Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the American Civil War
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The Lincoln Monument, in Memory of Scottish-American Soldiers, Unveiled in Edinburgh, August 21, 1893
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Azules y grises: una historia de la Guerra de Secesión y sus combatientes españoles
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España y la Guerra Civil Americana, o, La globalización del contrarrevolucionismo
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Hispanos y españoles en la Guerra de Secesión americana
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Elddop vid Shiloh : svenska volontärer i amerikanska inbördeskriget 1861-1865
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Swedish Immigrants in Lincoln's Time
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A Kansas Soldier at War: The Civil War letters of Christian & Elise Dubach Isley
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Llwch cenhedloedd: y Cymry a Rhyfel Cartref America
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