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Carl Schurz Meets With Lincoln To Arm the Germans
Originally Posted May 26, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. The week after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, Carl Schurz insisted on meeting with Abraham Lincoln….
Immigrant Leader Carl Schurz to Lincoln: Stand Firm Against Slavery
Originally Posted March 29, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. When Lincoln ran for election to the presidency in 1860, he had a highly…
Carl Schurz: From German Radical to American Abolitionist
Posted March 25, 2011 by Patrick Young, Esq. This is the third installment of The Immigrants’ Civil War. Before he even became a citizen of…
Carl Schurz Warned That a “System of Terrorism” Was Taking Hold in the Post-War South in 1865
Carl Schurz arrived in South Carolina in the middle of July, 1865. He had been sent by new president Andrew Johnson to investigate the condition…
German General Carl Schurz Begins His Investigation of the Post-War South
Union General Carl Schurz began his inspection tour of the South just a month after the last Confederate forces surrendered. Schurz, a German refugee, embarked…