TFSmith121
Banned
Minor sidelight on this issue:
The US Civil War was, obviously, a conflict where there was amounted to a mass mobilization (volunteers and conscripts) across the US: a significant percentage of the officer and enlisted personnel were foreign-born.
Of those, three general officers (not brevets) were born in France (Cluseret, de Trobriand, and Duffie); two were prewar emigrants (de Trobriand and Duffie), while Cluseret was a French national who offered his services when the war broke out.
In comparison, 12 were born in the German states (since Germany, as such, did not exist yet); 12 in Ireland; five in Great Britain; and a half-dozen elsewhere in Europe (Austria and the Austrian Empire, Russian and the Russian Empire, Sweden, and Spain).
Minor note to this sidelight, of course, is that anti-Catholicism was very much a spent force by the 1860s; seems rather unlikely that generals Cluseret, de Trobriand, Duffie, Busteed, Connor, Corcoran, Gamble, Kiernan, Lawler, Meagher, Sweeny, Krzyzanowski and Ferrero (much less Turchinov and Salomon) felt they were discriminated against on the basis of religion...
Best,
The US Civil War was, obviously, a conflict where there was amounted to a mass mobilization (volunteers and conscripts) across the US: a significant percentage of the officer and enlisted personnel were foreign-born.
Of those, three general officers (not brevets) were born in France (Cluseret, de Trobriand, and Duffie); two were prewar emigrants (de Trobriand and Duffie), while Cluseret was a French national who offered his services when the war broke out.
In comparison, 12 were born in the German states (since Germany, as such, did not exist yet); 12 in Ireland; five in Great Britain; and a half-dozen elsewhere in Europe (Austria and the Austrian Empire, Russian and the Russian Empire, Sweden, and Spain).
Minor note to this sidelight, of course, is that anti-Catholicism was very much a spent force by the 1860s; seems rather unlikely that generals Cluseret, de Trobriand, Duffie, Busteed, Connor, Corcoran, Gamble, Kiernan, Lawler, Meagher, Sweeny, Krzyzanowski and Ferrero (much less Turchinov and Salomon) felt they were discriminated against on the basis of religion...
Best,