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