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Carl Schurz : A Biography / Hans Trefousse.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The North's Civil WarPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823218554
  • 9780823295227
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- I Youth -- II Revolution -- III Exile -- IV America -- V Antislavery and the Beginning of Ethnic Politics -- VI Victory and Secession -- VII Radical Minister to Spain -- VIII Radical Brigadier General -- IX Radical Major General -- X Reconstruction -- XI The Triumph of Ethnic Politics -- XII The Break with Grant -- XIII The Liberal Republican Debacle -- XIV Independent Liberal Leader -- XV Secretary of the Interior -- XVI Mugwump -- XVII Independent -- XVIII Anti-Imperialist: The Last Years -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852, Schurz was nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket. He quickly rose in the party and was the head of the Wisconsin delegation at the 1860 National Convention. He worked hard for the cause, and Lincoln rewarded him with the post of Minister to Spain. At the outbreak of war he returned to join the Union Army, became a Major General, and took part in several important battles. After the war, he moved to Missouri, was elected Senator from that State, and became a role model for his fellow German Americans. In 1871 he became one of the main figures in the Liberal Republican movement, and in 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Interior. After his retirement from the cabinet, Schurz became active in the politics of New York, as an advocate of municipal and civil service reform. He was a leading Mugwump who supported Grover Cleveland in 1884 and at the end of his life became a violent opponent of imperialism. He died in 1906. Carl Schurz, the man, his story, his ideals and his example, are particularly appropriate today because of the light his life sheds on the never-ending problems of immigration, assimilation, and the retention of ethnic identity. Carl Schurz’s career furnishes a model example for all of these.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- I Youth -- II Revolution -- III Exile -- IV America -- V Antislavery and the Beginning of Ethnic Politics -- VI Victory and Secession -- VII Radical Minister to Spain -- VIII Radical Brigadier General -- IX Radical Major General -- X Reconstruction -- XI The Triumph of Ethnic Politics -- XII The Break with Grant -- XIII The Liberal Republican Debacle -- XIV Independent Liberal Leader -- XV Secretary of the Interior -- XVI Mugwump -- XVII Independent -- XVIII Anti-Imperialist: The Last Years -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852, Schurz was nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket. He quickly rose in the party and was the head of the Wisconsin delegation at the 1860 National Convention. He worked hard for the cause, and Lincoln rewarded him with the post of Minister to Spain. At the outbreak of war he returned to join the Union Army, became a Major General, and took part in several important battles. After the war, he moved to Missouri, was elected Senator from that State, and became a role model for his fellow German Americans. In 1871 he became one of the main figures in the Liberal Republican movement, and in 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Interior. After his retirement from the cabinet, Schurz became active in the politics of New York, as an advocate of municipal and civil service reform. He was a leading Mugwump who supported Grover Cleveland in 1884 and at the end of his life became a violent opponent of imperialism. He died in 1906. Carl Schurz, the man, his story, his ideals and his example, are particularly appropriate today because of the light his life sheds on the never-ending problems of immigration, assimilation, and the retention of ethnic identity. Carl Schurz’s career furnishes a model example for all of these.

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