Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon

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BOOK REVIEW: Brigadier General August Willich was a German nobleman, young radical, a highly trained Prussian officer, a revolutionary commander, a refugee, a communist man of action, an immigrant, a workingman, a journalist, a military recruiter, a prisoner of war, and a Union general. David Dixon's new biography of this fascinating character captures the high stakes game of revolutionary intrigue that Willich waged against the King of Prussia, Karl Marx, slavery, the Confederacy, and capitalism itself. A must read for those interested in the Civil War, immigrant or labor history. Willich was an American original made in Germany.
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PatYoung said:
BOOK REVIEW: Brigadier General August Willich was a German nobleman, young radical, a highly trained Prussian officer, a revolutionary commander, a refugee, a communist man of action, an immigrant, a workingman, a journalist, a military recruiter, a prisoner of war, and a Union general. David Dixon's new biography of this fascinating character captures the high stakes game of revolutionary intrigue that Willich waged against the King of Prussia, Karl Marx, slavery, the Confederacy, and capitalism itself. A must read for those interested in the Civil War, immigrant or labor history. Willich was an American original made in Germany.
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I've read a very little about Willich at Chickamauga, but I had no idea he was this interesting. May have to get a copy of this book.
 
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I like August Willich! He was the most accomplished of the immigrant generals, too. At Stones River he was captured and spent about six months at Libby Prison. When he got out he was hugely popular with the Germans. The war had also changed while he was locked up and he embraced fully what he considered the new objective - with the Empancipation Proclamation, it was not about nationality any longer but 'in the interest of all humanity' as he said.
 
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I like August Willich! He was the most accomplished of the immigrant generals, too. At Stones River he was captured and spent about six months at Libby Prison. When he got out he was hugely popular with the Germans. The war had also changed while he was locked up and he embraced fully what he considered the new objective - with the Empancipation Proclamation, it was not about nationality any longer but 'in the interest of all humanity' as he said.
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and that's were all the troubble starts: disappointed with what happens under johnson in the south he goes back to germany, gets more radical and blows up a certain party at versailles. dependending on who doesn't survive that you could run havoc in the history of europe.

if both wilhelms (you may need to beam the younger there) as well as bismarck buy a farm and friedrich survives heavily injured and therefore quits smoking (which killed him) there will be a time of furor teutonicus for france (the government will claim that some frenchmen planted the bomb whether they believe it or not) untill friedrich is back on the bridge and we'll get another heinrich as emperor when friedrich finally succumbs to his wounds in 1897.
 
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Willich was a Prussian, I think - did he have the same head dress? Head dress fascinates me because that's the first thing the enemy sees of a warrior, so it's got to send a message. The Hessians at Trenton certainly sent one with their pointy head dresses!
 
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Willich was a Prussian, I think - did he have the same head dress? Head dress fascinates me because that's the first thing the enemy sees of a warrior, so it's got to send a message. The Hessians at Trenton certainly sent one with their pointy head dresses!
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serving in the artillery means sth like that


militärische antiquitäten emig
 
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