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The Civil War - Online Term Paper

The Civil War

For minorities, as for other Americans, 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 vigorous foe ...

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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 rare executive skill."
Italian American privates also won the ...

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Added: 10/28/2006 10:31:04 PM
Category: American History
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