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Originally Posted by Skybird
The article also says that in the Civil War, almost one quarter of the North's army was German, 516 thousand men - of which 210 thousand even had been born in Germany.
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Probably felt quite at home fighting on battlefields with names that ended in 'burg.
There was a General Adolph von Steinwehr from Brunswick at Gettysburg, whose brigade got badly beaten up. But then almost everybody got badly beaten up at Gettysburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_von_Steinwehr