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About one in ten Union soldiers was born in Germany. Over 200,000 German immigrants to the United States were recruited by the Union, many as they stepped off the boat. Some were drafted. Some Germans served in the Confederate military. To find information about Germans who fought in the Civil War, see [[United States Military Records]]. | About one in ten Union soldiers was born in Germany. Over 200,000 German immigrants to the United States were recruited by the Union, many as they stepped off the boat. Some were drafted. Some Germans served in the Confederate military. To find information about Germans who fought in the Civil War, see [[United States Military Records]]. | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/638433?availability=Family%20History%20Library William L. Burton.''Melting pot soldiers : the Union's ethnic regiments.''Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press, 1988. FHL 973 M2bw] | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/424136?availability=Family%20History%20Library Ella Lonn. ''Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy'' reprint New York, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. FHL 973 M2Le] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/424136?availability=Family%20History%20Library Ella Lonn. ''Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy'' reprint New York, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. FHL 973 M2Le] | ||
*[Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, eds. ''Germans in the Civil War : the letters they wrote home.'' University of North Carolina Press, 2006. FHL 973 F2kw] | |||
== Locating Military Records == | == Locating Military Records == | ||