 | Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Americas Bloodiest Conflict Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Participation Immigrant; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Participation German American; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Participation Irish American; United Sta; At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also became part of this struggle to exercise rights stripped from them by legislation, court rulings, and the prejudices that defined the age. Ural Susannah J. : Susannah J. Ural is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of War and Society. She is the author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (NYU Press, 2006). |
