German-Americans were a strong base for radical Republicanism after the war https://twitter.com/SelimSeesYou/status/1251679521918660609 …
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Probably the only immigrant groups that had more people on confederate than union side were Jews, Croats and Serbs. There were few Slavonic regiments mainly made from New Orleans Dalmatians.
A Civil War regiment is 1,000 men and there were only about 3,000 Croatians total in the whole South, so that's a bit of an exaggeration. There were two "Slavonian" companies in what was called the European Brigade of New Orleans.
