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Essay Galaxy - Civil War
The Civil War
For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was
an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first
mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German
American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian
Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American
youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington,
D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from
recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some
citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in
crowded city tenements until an Italian American from Brooklyn
turned that around. In the New York Senate, Democrat Francis
Spinola had been a vigorous foe of Republican policies and
Lincoln. But now he swore his loyalty with stirring words, "This
is my flag, which I will ....
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