02915cam a2200349 4500 759675670 TxAuBib 20210111120000.0 210119s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020041255 9781631495144 hbk. $28.95 1631495143 hbk. $28.95 (OCoLC)1231994596 DLC eng rda FSP FSP OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Jordan, Brian Matthew, 1986-, author. A thousand may fall [Book] : life, death, and survival in the Union Army / Brian Matthew Jordan. First edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-342) and index. "From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads with the 107th Ohio, an ethnically German infantry regiment whose members battled nativism no less than Confederate rebels. The 107th was at once ordinary and exceptional: its ranks played central roles in two of the war's pivotal battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, even as language, identity, and popular perceptions of their loyalties set them apart. Drawing on many never-before-used sources, Jordan shows how, while enduring the horrible extremes of war, the men of the 107th Ohio contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict-from personal questions of citizenship to the overriding matter of emancipation. A pioneering account from the view of the ordinary, immigrant soldier-200,000 native Germans fought for the Union, in total-A Thousand May Fall overturns many of our most basic assumptions about the bloodiest conflict in our history"-- Provided by publisher. 20210111. United States Army Ohio Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865.) German American soldiers Ohio History 19th century. Immigrants Ohio History 19th century. Ohio History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, German. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, German American. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, Immigrant. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories. RV8