Ethnic Groups In American History

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German/Polish
British  
Jewish
American Indian

See also  Irish in the Civil War
and    Black Soldiers

IB044 Melting Pot Soldiers. The Union's Ethnic Regiments
William Burton
The story of how immigrants responded to the call for volunteers for the Union army..
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SCOT004 Him On One Side, Me On the Other.
The CW Letters of Alexander Campbell, 79th NY Infantry and James Campbell, 1st South Carolina Battalion.  One copy left.
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British

GB009P Three Months In The Southern States.
Col. Fremantle.
An Englishman who observed the Confederate forces at Gettysburg. Upon his return to England he published this diary before the end of the War.
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German/Polish

GER002 An Immigrant Soldier in the Mexican War.  Frederick Zeh. 
Translated by W. J. Orr
A well-educated young German immigrant describes his experiences as a laborer in the U.S. Army under Gen. Winfield Scott, One copy left.
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Jewish

JW007 The Jewish Confederates 
Robert N. Rosen.
Demonstrating that Jews participated in every imaginable aspect of battle and home-front life, Rosen relates the experiences of officers and enlisted men, businessmen and shopkeepers, politicians, and peddlers, nurses and seamstresses, rabbis and doctors.  $39.95
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JW001 A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War 
Marcus Spiegel
A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War.  Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
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JW003 Judah P. Benjamin.  The Jewish Confederate. 
Evans   
A definitive biography
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American Indian

IND012 Civil War in the Indian Territory  
S. Cottrell
The war in the Indian Territory proved to be a test of valor and endurance for both sides of the conflict.
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IND009 Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief.  The Life of William Holland Thomas.
Goldbold/Russell
A white man from western North Carolina, he was adopted by a small Cherokee Indian band and later became its chief. Hardcover  Now out-of-print.  One copy left.
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IND002 The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-65
Abel
The author describes the Battle of pea Ridge, a glorious moment for the Cherokee Mounted Rifles
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IND005 Creek Warrior for the Confederacy. The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson.
Born in 1843 near present-day Eufaula, Oklahoma, Grayson served as a confederate army officer during the Civil War 
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