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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticMayer, Friedrich
Title, AnalyticAus den Erlebnissen eines Achtundvierzigers in Amerika
Journal TitleDeutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund
Date of PublicationJanuar 1914
Volume ID25
Issue ID1
Location in Work8-10, 12
AbstractBegins: "Ich kam als junger Pfarrer nach Jackson [Michigan]. Mein Gemeindlein war recht klein, es galt neue Glieder herbeizuziehen." Mentions the presidential election of 1896; Mayer heard Theodore Roosevelt and Karl Schurz speak Recounting a conversation with a man from his home village, we learn about that man's Civil War service and how he was present at the execution of the four alleged co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
NotesGerman-American author
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsForty-eighters/ Autobiography/ Immigrants, German/ Personal narratives/ Slavery/ Civil war, 1861-1865/ German Americans -- Michigan