
Radio War Nerd EP 315 — The US Civil War, Part 7: German '48ers, with Matt Christman
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The German Revolutionary Army in the South
So willage comes to america. He works at the brooklyn navy yard for a while, acouple of years,. Then he is given the position of editor of a german language newspaper called the republiconor. And when he's there, he is very aapt active in the nascent labor movement. He's also abolitionist. Is there when the war is a war breaks out, and he joins, even though he's in his late 40s or early fifties. Gains command an attempts to a run in the middle of this national army that is trying to preserve the union. Runs a tiny revolutionary army within it. His troops are overwhelmingly german immigrants,
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