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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Martin W. Ofele. German-Speakinq Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863–1867. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2004. Pp. xviii, 320. $55.00.

Martin W. Ofele's book is a well-underpinned and impressive piece of scholarship on an arcane but quite interesting subject. German Americans, while a quite heterogeneous group, were united in belief that U.S. colored troops needed well-qualified officers. There were approximately 1,000 foreign-born applicants for commissions in the U.S. Colored Troops, and slightly more than 400 of these came from German-speaking countries. Two hundred and sixty-five German-speaking immigrants eventually became officers in the U. S. Colored Troops, and 131 (49.4 percent) of these had been born in German states excluding Prussia.

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