freiwilligen = volunteer, ein freiwilligenfeuerman in Neuer Schottland, Kanada.. An enjoyable translation. Beter you than me. Dave Cheryl Babbe wrote: > I am not so good at translation, yet I believe this is close to the > Germans in America post about immigration posted earlier today by > Dieter Beutel-- > > > German in America > Exhibition > 1683 achieved the first immigrants from Germany the North > American coast. 13 families from Krefeld created a settlement in > Pennsylvania - natural with the name "Germantown". Between 1749 and > 1754 37,000 further Germans followed. > > Between 1820 and 1860 achieved approximately four million emigrant > from Europe the "new world". From Germany 500,000 humans immigrated, > particularly after the failed revolution of 1848/49. In 19. Century > were then estimated 5.5 million. > > German troops in the civil war > > While the 1848er-Revolution had conquered Ludwig Blenker with > its troops Ludwigshafen and had filled Worms. One the leader of the > revolution of Baden, Gustav of Struve, was a captain and company > commander in 8. Regiment. Its friend and fellow combatant of Baden > Friedrich Hecker befehligte later German 82. Regiment of the > freiwilligen of Illinois. > > Franz sigel, which had been in Germany for some time commanders in > chief of the revolution troops, was promoted in the union army to the > major general and commander of the Ith corps of the army of Virginia. > A popular contemporary song with the title "I'm going to fight with > sigel" in the library of congress of US issued is, contained the lines > "the Deutshen mens with Sigel's bound, A fighting have NO rival". Carl > Schurz, which its Mentor - which revolution leader Gottfried Kinkel - > 1850 had help to the escape from splinter duration the penintentiary, > achieves the rank of a major general likewise in the union army. After > the war Schurz was selected to the senator for Missouri and late > American Minister of the Interior. > > Estimations assume altogether approximately 200,000 Germans on pages > of the victorious union troops fought. In a writing at US president > Abraham Lincoln from 26 January 1862 mentioned Gustav of grains > 100,000 Germans, which fought at present "in the union army". The > native Frankfurt one (a.M.) was one of the first successful > German-American politicians. Grains judge at the national Court of > Justice of Illinois and late vice-governor of this Federal State > became. > > After the American civil war it was not smaller than the > Kommandierende a general of the Konfoerderierten troops (Southern > States), general Robert E. Lee, who was to have explained that the > "Yankees" (north states) would have been defeated without the support > by the Germans. Thus for instance Ludwig Blenker became the "rescuer > of Washington" as its "German brigade" after combat of bulletin run on > 21 July 1861 the konfoederierten troops held to pursue the fleeing > union army. > > Another German, August Roebling, sketched the famous Brooklyn Bridge > in new Nork to 1865, and Margarethe Meyer Schurz opened the first > kindergarten in the USA to 1856. > > In a small district in the south of the Federal State New York a > gedenktafel with the inscription "indispensable is for the > implementation of American independence". The board is in Steuben > County, and baron Friedrich William of Steuben was indispensable. The > native Magdeburger and son of a pioneer second lieutenant as a > Prussian officer in the seven-year-old war had made itself 1756-1763 > earned. After its dismissal and long search for a new activity Steuben > appeared in February 1778 before the congress of continental of the > USA in New York, that accepted its services as a freiwilliger. On it > it announced itself briefly to general George Washington to the > service. It created it up to the major general and received the posts > of the general inspector, its formation manual became the factory of > type of status of the American army. > > Today an itinerant exhibition reminds of the century for a long time > common history of both nations. Under the title of "ways to the > friendship - evolution OF A Friedship 1507-1995" is to be seen > following from 5 to 16 June in Ulm and from 22 June to 3 July in > Magdeburg. > > Current information under: www.mgfa.de > > > http://www.mgfa.de/html/ausstellungen.php?do=display&ident=39fef7169cd5c > > Many greetings > > Dieter Beutel > > > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Eine Erklaerung von Fachbegriffen und die Regeln der SH-ROOTS finden > Sie hier: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/regeln.htm > > > . >