Table of Contents:
  • Introduction ; German Immigrants and Politics in the Civil War Era ; German Immigrants in the Union Army
  • Letters ; Eastern Theater ; Otto Albrecht ; Private Alexander Dupre, Emile Dupre, and Lottie Dupre ; Wesslau Family ; Christoph Barthel, Anna-Katharina Odensass, and Jacob Odensass ; Augustin Family ; Corporal Robert Rossi ; Private Friedrich Schmalzried ; First Lieutenant Alphons Richter ; Corporal Wilhelm Albrecht ; Carl Hermanns ; Caroline Eversmeier ; Dunnebacke Family ; Captain August Horstmann ; Private Wilhelm Hoffmann ; First Lieutenant Peter Boffinger ; Sergeant Wilhelm Francksen ; First Lieutenant Emil Cornelius Knoebel ; Surgeon Carl Uterhard ; Johann Philipp Heubach ; Corporal Jakob Heinzelmann ; Private Gustav Keppler ; Sergeant Albert Krause ; Christian Harring ; Barbara Pack and Nikolaus Pack ; Matthias Leclerc ; Private August Strohsahl (alias Henry Johnson, alias August Warner) ; Petty Officer Eduard Treutlein (alias Edward Smith) ; Jakob Kessler ; Victor Klausmeyer ; Kaspar Herbst and Agatha Herbst ; Muller Family
  • Western Theater ; Surgeon Magnus Brucker ; Monn Family ; Private Dietrich Gerstein ; Corporal Ludwig Wilhelm Kuhner and Private Karl Friedrich Kuhner ; Johann (John) Dieden ; Private Paul Petasch ; Second Lieutenant Friedrich Martens ; Private David Bopple and Family ; Christian Bonsel ; Sergeant Ferdinand Krieger ; Private Franz Schorse ; Bernhard Buschmann ; Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Weinrich ; First Lieutenant Karl Adolph Frick and Alwine Frick ; Private Georg Bauer ; Private Ludwig Muller (Louis W. Miller) ; Private Carl Anton (Charles) Ruff ; Private Johann Christoph Penzler ; Private Anton Herman Bullenhaar ; Heinrich Stahler ; Kessel and Ruckels Families ; Dr. Hermann Nagel ; Captain Robert Voigt, CSA ; Captain Ernst Cramer and Ferdinand Simon ; Private Georg Wilhelm Schwarting ; Private Ludwig (Louis) Lehmann, CSA, and Friederike Lehmann ; Epilogue: Reconstruction.