Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict

Contents

2 vii Contents Introduction 1 Susannah J. Ural 1 Yankee Dutchmen: Germans, the Union, and 11 the Construction of Wartime Identity Stephen D. Engle 2 “With More Freedom and Independence Than the 57 Yankees”: The Germans of Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans during the American Civil War Andrea Mehrländer 3 “Ye Sons of Green Erin Assemble”: 99 Northern Irish American Catholics and the Union War Effort, 1861–1865 Susannah J. Ural 4 Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels: The Irish Confederates 133 David T. Gleeson 5 The Jewish Confederates 157 Robert N. Rosen, Esq. 6 Native Americans in the Civil War: Three Experiences 187 William McKee Evans 7 The African American Struggle for Citizenship Rights 213 in the Northern United States during the Civil War Joseph P. Reidy About the Contributors 237 Index 239 ...