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Civil War - School Essays

Civil War

For minorities, as for other Americans, the was
an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first
mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German
American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian
Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American
youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington,
D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from
recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some
citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in
crowded city tenements until an Italian American from Brooklyn
turned that around. In the New York Senate, Democrat Francis
Spinola had been a ...

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for the Union was Captain Constatin Blandowski,
one of many immigrants who earlier had fought for freedom in
Europe and then joined Lincoln's army. Born in Upper Silesia and
trained at Dresden, Germany, he was a veteran of democratic
struggles - a Polish revolt at Krakow, the Polish Legion's
battles against Austria, and the Hungarian fight for
independence. Some nationalities contributed more than their
share of Union soldiers.
Some immigrants earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Italian American officer Louis di Cesnola, was the Colonel of
the 4th Cavalry Regiment. At Aldie, Virginia, in 1863, he earned
the Medal of Honor and was appointed a general. He charged
unarmed at the foe, read his citation, "rallied his men ...until
desperately wounded and taken prisoner in action." In 1879
Cesnola became director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The museum then became, wrote a critic, "a monument to his
energy, enterprise, and ...

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