| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863–1867. By Martin W. Öfele. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xviii, 320 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2692-X.)

From its title, it would be easy to assume that Martin W. Öfele's German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863–1867, is either an encyclopedic catalog or a narrow treatise on a relatively obscure subject. It is neither. Using the 265 Germans who served in the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) as his sample, Öfele has developed a remarkably thoughtful analysis of the backgrounds and motivations of his subjects and of the greater German American community that is more nuanced than Ella Lonn's pioneering study Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy (1951), more analytical and objective than the early works of German historians such as Wilhelm Kaufmann (Die Deutschen im amerikanischen Bürgerkriege, 1911), and significantly more penetrating than William L. Burton's inadequate treatment of German Americans in Melting Pot Soldiers (1988).

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