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which they were a strong element turned the
tide of the election of 1860 in favor of the
Republican candidate. Professor A. B..
Faust in his book on "The German Element in
the United States" speaks of abundance OF
evidence of the fact, we'll established by re-
cent historical monographs, that the balance
of power securing the election of Lincoln,
with all its far-reaching consequences, lay
with the German vote in the Middle Vest.
His election was assured by the 60 electoral
votes of the northwestern States populated
by Germans.
One author relates an ironical query by
Abraham Lincoln after his Inauguration as
President when the clamor of office-seekers
was giving him no rest: "Where are the
Dutch?'' The Germans, vulgarly referred to
as "Dutch", were not in evidence when it
came to Fostering the President for jobs.
Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency
because of his ~outspoken anti-slavery stand,
gave the signal for the South's secession from
the Union.
Germans in the Union Army
Students Of our Civil War know what a
prominent part the Turnerbund Of st. Louis
played just before the outbreak of the war
in winning the doubtful State of Missouri for
the Union. So soon as the war famed forth,
enthusiastic Union supporters Of German
birth or parentage in all the northern and
western States rushed to arms. An official
statistical work by DR.. B. A. Gould estimates
that 1857 men born in Germany volun-
teered for service in the Union Army. Inclu-
ding those Of German parentage there were
more than 100000 volunteers, to whom must
be added the German Americans who were
drafted for service, as was also the case In
the Confederacy. OF whole regiments re-
cruited from the German elements In the
North's population there were nearly so, a.
mong them such famous regiments as the
9TH and 9Th New York Infantry, the 74th and
10Th Pennsylvania Infantry, the 18th, 37th
and 9th Ohio, the 32nd Indiana, the oath
Illinois with the 9th and 10Th Wisconsin,
who suffered the heaviest casualties of any
northern regiment in the war.
The list of German born military leaders
on both sides in the Civil War is well nigh
innumerable, among them such well-known
men as Ammen, B%allier, Blenker, Won Bless
ing, Won Bohlen, Won Borcke, Btchel, Bum
bart. Buchholz, Burstenbinder, Buschbeck,
Custer (Ktster), Dickel, Dilgen, Engelmann,
E%rdelmeyer, Frey, Won elisa, Greble, Hagner,
Hartranft, Hambricht, Hassendeubel, Haupt,
Hecker, Heine, Heintzelmann, Hennigsen,
Hotaling, Kargo, Won Kautz, Won Knobels-
dorff, Koltes, Kuffner, Krez, Laiboldt, Mat
thies, Moor, Osterhaus, Pennypacker, Raith,
Raster, Rosecrans, Prince Salm, Won Setback,
Schimmelpfennig, Schiras, Schapfer, Won
Schrader, Schriver, Schurz, Schuttner, Siber,
Sigel, Won Steinwehr, Stollemann, Won Ire
bra, Wagner, Wengelin, Weber, Weitzel, Viii
helm, Which, Wister and young Count Won
Zeppelin, who served as our first aerial OBJ
server in the war.
President Lincoln commissioned m 80
Of them as generals. How they all, German
officers and men, served Lincoln in war would
fill more than one book. So would a detailed
account. of the civil services of Lincoln's Ger
man supporters.
Three German Advisers
Let three examples suffice! President Lin
coins German friend, the jurist Franz Lieb-
er, was his chief adviser on points OF inter-
national law after Lincoln's Secretary OF
State, William Henry Seward. Lieber prac-
tically revolutionized international law in re-
gard to the treatment Of war prisoners, his
reforms finding acceptance by most civilized
nations.
In financial matters Lincoln's most trusted
advisor was the German banker Franz Spinn-
err, whom he later appointed U. S. Treasurer.
Spinner helped float the Unions bond in
Germany. His integrity gained him the pop
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