"Joseph Reinhart has offered us yet another welcome opportunity to become acquainted with the German American soldier of the Civil War. The letters of Lieutenant Friedrich Bertsch and Chaplain Wilhelm
Civil War letters from soldiers serving in a German regimentOrganized by Colonel August Willich, a former Prussian army officer who led troops during the German Revolution of 1848, Indiana's German 32
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regimentThousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by nati
Reinhart has written a history of the regiment. Here he translates the two texts to provide a different perspective on serving in a Union regiment from a border state. He alters the punctuation slight
