Paula Chrystine Poling Poling 1 Myths, Memories and Realities of the War Between the States Dr. Mary Ellen Rowe and Dr. Larry Olpin December 15, 1999 German, Irish, African and Native are all American 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 Garibaldi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a …showed first 75 words of 1282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1282 total…put a 90’s mentality into an 1860’s event some things are bound to be misconstrued. Poling 7 Works Cited Burton, William L. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union’s Ethnic Regiments. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1988. Grayson, Chief G.W. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy. ed. W. David Baird. Norman: U Oklahoma P, 1988. Hauptman, Laurence M. Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1995. Jones, Paul. The Irish Brigade. New York: Luce, 1969.