German Immigrant Diaries in Western Theaters?

[marchemmes]

Hello- I'm looking for any easily accessible German Immigrant Diaries or Memoirs in the Western Theatre and Trans Mississippi. I'm especially looking for documentaion of relations between German Immigrants and their American counterparts.

Thank You-

[Annette Bethke]

Re: German Immigrant Diaries in Western Theaters?

Have you tracked down the book Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home (Civil War America) by Walter D. Kamphoefner.

Also Lone Star and Double Eagle: Civil War Letters of a German-Texas Family; this one might be available as an online book.

Death on the Nueces: German Texans, Treue Der Union,

[J.H.Berger]

Re: German Immigrant Diaries in Western Theaters?

Read "Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill" ona of my favourites. Although he is not so much focussing on the ethnic thing s except for some occasions it is a splendid book giving you tons of details in the Western and later Shermans Army.

[FlatLandFed]

Re: German Immigrant Diaries in Western Theaters?

Marc, there's always "Marching with the 1st Nebraska" -- journal (translated from his original German) or western theater campaign by German immigrant. I haven't read all of this volume, yet, but it is a good account of a regiment in the transmiss that morphed from infantry to mounted infantry/calvary. Covers the period after Shiloh.

As I understand from one of the book's editors (Potter) Auggie may have been going out of his way to be "American" but he of course does write in German and has comments about comrades and civilians and gov't officials.

Hope you enjoy it.
Paul Hadley