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- 29009286 abstract "This is a collection of personal letters written by the eminent German- American statesman, Carl Schurz (1829-1906), to his immediate family and close friends. Schurz maintained a legal residence in Watertown, Wisconsin from 1855 to 1866, even though lecture tours and campaign speeches took him all across the northern United States. Several of these letters deal with Schurz's Wisconsin years, and most are published here for the first time in English. They are filled with descriptive insights about German immigrants and native-born Americans as well as about the newly developing urban centers of the Upper Midwest. Schurz was a political revolutionary during his university years in his native Germany. When he emigrated to the United States, he became an outstanding spokesman for the anti-slavery cause and the Republican party. One of his missions was to mobilize German-American communities against slavery, but his rhetorical skills in English as well as German soon won him a broader following. Later, Schurz became an ardent champion of civil service reform. His other contributions to American life ranged from farming and practicing law to serving as Ambassador to Spain (1861-62), Civil War general (1862-63), Senator from Missouri (1869-75), organizer of the Liberal Republican Party (1872), and Secretary of the Interior (1877-81), where he made the conservation of natural resources an object of policy for the first time. Schurz was also considered one of the leading journalists of his day, editing the New York Evening Post (1881- 83) and writing for Harper's Weekly (1892-1901). His biographies of Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln are still read today.".
- 29009286 contributor B731237.
- 29009286 contributor B731238.
- 29009286 created "1928.".
- 29009286 date "1928".
- 29009286 date "1928.".
- 29009286 dateCopyrighted "1928.".
- 29009286 description "This is a collection of personal letters written by the eminent German- American statesman, Carl Schurz (1829-1906), to his immediate family and close friends. Schurz maintained a legal residence in Watertown, Wisconsin from 1855 to 1866, even though lecture tours and campaign speeches took him all across the northern United States. Several of these letters deal with Schurz's Wisconsin years, and most are published here for the first time in English. They are filled with descriptive insights about German immigrants and native-born Americans as well as about the newly developing urban centers of the Upper Midwest. Schurz was a political revolutionary during his university years in his native Germany. When he emigrated to the United States, he became an outstanding spokesman for the anti-slavery cause and the Republican party. One of his missions was to mobilize German-American communities against slavery, but his rhetorical skills in English as well as German soon won him a broader following. Later, Schurz became an ardent champion of civil service reform. His other contributions to American life ranged from farming and practicing law to serving as Ambassador to Spain (1861-62), Civil War general (1862-63), Senator from Missouri (1869-75), organizer of the Liberal Republican Party (1872), and Secretary of the Interior (1877-81), where he made the conservation of natural resources an object of policy for the first time. Schurz was also considered one of the leading journalists of his day, editing the New York Evening Post (1881- 83) and writing for Harper's Weekly (1892-1901). His biographies of Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln are still read today.".
- 29009286 extent "xx p., 2 l., 491 p.".
- 29009286 format "s".
- 29009286 hasFormat "Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.".
- 29009286 identifier lhbum.09286.
- 29009286 isFormatOf "Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.".
- 29009286 isPartOf "Collections / State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; vol. XXX".
- 29009286 issued "1928".
- 29009286 issued "1928.".
- 29009286 language "eng".
- 29009286 publisher "Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin,".
- 29009286 relation "Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.".
- 29009286 subject "F576 .W81 vol. 30".
- 29009286 subject "Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Correspondence.".
- 29009286 title "Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869, translated and edited by Joseph Schafer ...".
- 29009286 type "text".