"Chinese in the US Civil War" Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Nov 2018 10:11 p.m. PST |
"In the century after the U.S. Civil War ended, the presence of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) combatants largely receded from memory, often within their own families. But in the past few decades, researchers–chiefly Australia–based Terry Foenander–have identified over 300 API combatants. This number is miniscule in the face of the three million who fought. Given the small population of Asians and Pacific Islanders then in the United States, however, the percentage of men that served was astonishingly high. Moreover, the range of their participation was broad, and the challenges they faced for acceptance during and after the war–particularly the prolonged battles of Chinese veterans for naturalization–are an important yet virtually unknown chapter in this nation's rocky struggle towards a more perfect Union….." Main page mccunn.com/Civil-War.html Amicalement Armand
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Tango01 | 02 Dec 2018 3:15 p.m. PST |
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John the Greater | 03 Dec 2018 4:31 p.m. PST |
Several years ago a Chinese student at the University of Virginia asked if he could fall in with my re-enactment unit for the Battle of Cedar Creek. The natural question naturally is "How many Chinese soldiers were there at Cedar Creek?" After some research, the answer turned out to be at least one. He served with a NY unit. Needless to say, we were happy to welcome him into the ranks. |
Tango01 | 04 Dec 2018 11:33 a.m. PST |
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