@article{1477734,
      recid = {1477734},
      author = {Keller, Christian B., },
      title = {Chancellorsville and the Germans : Nativism, Ethnicity,  and Civil War Memory /},
      pages = {1 online resource (238 p.) :},
      abstract = {Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of  Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps,  composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers.  Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by "Stonewall" Jackson  and became the scapegoat for the Northern defeat, blamed by  many on the "flight" of German immigrant troops. The impact  on America's large German community was devastating. But  there is much more to the story than that. Drawing for the  first time on German-language newspapers, soldiers'  letters, memoirs, and regimental records, Christian Keller  reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the  German-American perspective, military and civilian. He  offers a fascinating window into a misunderstood past, one  where the German soldiers' valor has been either minimized  or dismissed as cowardly. He critically analyzes the  performance of the German regiments and documents the  impact of nativism on Anglo-American and German-American  reactions-and on German self-perceptions as patriots and  Americans. For German-Americans, the ghost of  Chancellorsville lingered long, and Keller traces its  effects not only on ethnic identity, but also on the  dynamics of inclusion and assimilation in American life.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477734},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291144},
}