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Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel 121st New York Infantry
University of Alabama Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-8173-5975-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1552-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8147-9 Library of Congress Classification E523.5 121st.R46 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7447092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces
Sergeant William Remmel was a German immigrant who had settled with his parents and family in far upstate New York. His letters collected in Like Grass before the Scythe cover more than two full years of his service and provide details on military and social history in the eastern theater of operations and on the experience of the home front in upstate New York among a largely immigrant, working-class family and community. Remmel wrote in English and apparently his parents responded in German. In addition to the important material on an immigrant family’s experience, Remmel also deals with the question of slavery, illness and hospital care (when he was wounded), the problem of hard war/total war, as well as the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. See other books on: Army | Bender, Robert Patrick | Personal narratives | Regimental histories | Soldiers See other titles from University of Alabama Press |
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Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel 121st New York Infantry
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Alabama Press, 2007
Paper: 978-0-8173-5975-1
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1552-8
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8147-9
Paper: 978-0-8173-5975-1
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1552-8
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8147-9
Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces
Sergeant William Remmel was a German immigrant who had settled with his parents and family in far upstate New York. His letters collected in Like Grass before the Scythe cover more than two full years of his service and provide details on military and social history in the eastern theater of operations and on the experience of the home front in upstate New York among a largely immigrant, working-class family and community.
Remmel wrote in English and apparently his parents responded in German. In addition to the important material on an immigrant family’s experience, Remmel also deals with the question of slavery, illness and hospital care (when he was wounded), the problem of hard war/total war, as well as the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
Sergeant William Remmel was a German immigrant who had settled with his parents and family in far upstate New York. His letters collected in Like Grass before the Scythe cover more than two full years of his service and provide details on military and social history in the eastern theater of operations and on the experience of the home front in upstate New York among a largely immigrant, working-class family and community.
Remmel wrote in English and apparently his parents responded in German. In addition to the important material on an immigrant family’s experience, Remmel also deals with the question of slavery, illness and hospital care (when he was wounded), the problem of hard war/total war, as well as the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
