The German soldier in the wars of the United States, and related letters and clippings, 1885-1886 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Two different printed copies of J.G. Rosengarten's work The German soldier in the wars of the United States, bound together with the following related items (tipped in): 13 original letters addressed to Rosengarten, dated 16 January to 13 April 1886; and 47 clippings, dated May 1885 to September 1886. The 2 printed works comprise the first 2 published forms of the work: 1) in the United Service magazine, in the numbers for June, July, and August 1885; and 2) reprinted as a separate pamphlet of 49 pages, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, in 1886, under the title: The German soldier in the wars of the United States: an address, read before the Pionier-Verein, at the hall of the German Society. The letters are all from individuals responding to Rosengarten's gift of a copy of the work. Of the 13 correspondents, 3 are writing from Germany (Maximilian Bille and W. Roth are physicians in Dresden; J. Scheibert is in Berlin), and the rest are writing from cities in the United States. Five of the correspondents served in the military in the Civil War (4 as officers and one as an army chaplain); and 4 others are authors of works on either the American Revolution or the Civil War. Three of the correspondents (F.A. Muhlenberg, Scheibert, and Daniel Coit Gilman) make comments in their letters that can be seen reflected in material added by Rosengarten to a new expanded 175-page version of the book that was published by Lippincott later in 1886 (with a foreword from Rosengarten dated 21 April 1886). Of the clippings, 12 are from the Nebraska Tribüne, a German-language newspaper based in Omaha, and comprise serial installments of a German translation of Rosengarten's essay (Der deutsche Soldat in den Kriegen der Vereinigten Staaten) that appeared between 20 June and 29 October 1885. The other clippings are all either notices or reviews of Rosengarten's work. Of these, 13 are from German-language newspapers, with 12 from German-American newspapers in 8 different states, and 1 from Berlin; and the remaining 22 clippings are from American English-language periodicals, including newspapers in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Chicago; the Nation; the Army and Navy Journal; and the Journal of the Military Service Institution. Several of the reviews in 1886 refer not to the versions of the work included here but to the expanded version of 175 pages. A piece of one of the clippings is detached, and is stored in the same box with the volume. Tipped in on a front flyleaf of the volume is a small print depicting Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown