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English: Carl Schurz was a German revolutionist in 1848 and an American general, statesman, journalist and reformer. He was the first German-American to become a member of the U.S. Senate.
Deutsch: Carl Schurz, manchmal auch Karl Schurz, (* 2. März 1829 in Erftstadt-Liblar; † 14. Mai 1906 in New York) war ein deutscher Revolutionär der Märzrevolution in den Staaten des Deutschen Bundes, hier insbesondere der badischen Revolution von 1848/1849, und im politischen Exil in den USA als einer der so genannten Forty-Eighters US-amerikanischer General, Publicist und Staatsmann. Er war der erste Deutsch-Amerikaner, der Mitglied des amerikanischen Senates wurde.
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Date of birth | 2 March 1829 Liblar (Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia) Carl Christian Schurz. | ||||
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Gallery
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Carl Schurz 1860
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Carl Schurz
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Carl Schurz
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Carl Schurz in “Visit to Boston” program of 1881
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Frontispiece of Faust's The German Element in the United States, v. 2
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Portrait from Die Gartenlaube of 1888
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Portrait from Collier's Encyclopedia of 1921
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Portrait from Appleton's Cyclopædia of 1891
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Signature from Appletons' Cyclopædia
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Carl Schurz Park, New York City
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Statue by Karl Bitter (1913) in New York City
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Postage stamp from Germany 1976
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Postage stamp
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Memorial relief for Carl Schurz, Part of the wall of the Frankfurter Paulskirche
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Carl Schurz in 1860
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Carl Schurz in 1863
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Carl Schurz in 1880
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Carl Schurz in 1890
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Portrait by Arthur Ferraris (1900)
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Carl Schurz meets Ute delegation, 1880
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Schurz and Hayes meet Indians, Harper's Weekly, Jan. 22, 1881
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Ehrenbankett frontispiece (1899)
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Schurz 70th Birthday banquet program engraving (1899)
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Cabinet meeting of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes
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Carl Schurz in 1903
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Bas-relief by Victor David Brenner
A Selection of Harper's Weekly cartoons
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April 9, 1870, p. 232.
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February 3, 1872, p. 109.
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February 10, 1872, p. 132.
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March 9, 1872, p. 185.
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March 9, 1872, p. 200.
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March 16, 1872, p. 201.
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March 16, 1872, p. 208.
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March 23, 1872, p. 225.
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March 23, 1872, p. 232.
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March 23, 1872, p. 232.
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March 30, 1872, p. 241.
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April 6, 1872, p. 271.[2]
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April 6, 1872, p. 272.
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April 13, 1872, p. 284.
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April 20, 1872, p. 320.
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April 27, 1872, p. 321.
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May 4, 1872, p. 345.
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May 4, 1872, p. 351.
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May 4, 1872, p. 352.
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May 11, 1872, p. 361.
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May 11, 1872, p. 364.
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May 11, 1872, p. 384.
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May 18, 1872, p. 392.
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May 18, 1872, p. 395.
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May 25, 1872, p. 401.
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June 15, 1872, p. 468.
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June 22, 1872, p. 496.
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July 6, 1872, p. 536.
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August 10, 1872, p. 627.
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August 17, 1872, p. 633.
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August 24, 1872, p. 649.
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September 7, 1872, p. 693.
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November 2, 1872, p. 845.
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November 23, 1872, p. 905.
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January 11, 1873, p. 40.
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November 15, 1873, p. 1024.
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May 23, 1874, p. 432.
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June 6, 1874, p. 480.
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March 20, 1875, p. 241.
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July 29, 1876, p. 616.
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January 26, 1878, p. 65.
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February 2, 1878, p. 100.
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March 30, 1878, p. 260.
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December 21, 1878, p. 1005.
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December 28, 1878, p. 1040.
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January 25, 1879, p. 61.
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February 21, 1880, p. 128.
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February 28, 1880, p. 144.
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February 26, 1881, p. 129.
Cartoons by William Allen Rogers
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July 14, 1900, p. 639.
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September 15, 1900, p. 880.
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September 22, 1900, p. 881.
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August 9, 1902, p. 1088.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper cartoons
[edit]Cartoons by Matt Morgan
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Grant's Civil Service Exam, January 13, 1872
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Sales of Arms to French Agents, March 2, 1872
Cartoons by Joseph Keppler
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Credit Mobilier, March 8, 1873
Puck cartoons
[edit]Cartoons by Joseph Keppler
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Grant and Schurz in St. Louis, 1872
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Our western men, 1872
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Schurz in Hayes “cabinet” 1877
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c. 1878
Cartoons by Bernhard Gillam
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Schurz front and center in Bernhard Gillam cartoon of 1884
Cartoon from unknown newspaper
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c. 1878[3]
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The Germany of Schurz's Reminiscences
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Die Gracht — birthplace of Carl Schurz
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Schloss Gracht (from a 1909 edition of v. 1)
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Heribert Jüssen (maternal grandfather of Carl Schurz — the Burghalfen)
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Frau Jüssen (maternal grandmother of Carl Schurz)
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Christian Schurz (father of Carl Schurz)
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Marianna Jüssen Schurz (mother of Carl Schurz)
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The Cologne Cathedral
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University of Bonn (main building)
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Gottfried Kinkel
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Friedrich Wilhelm III, king of Prussia (d. 1840)
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Carl Schurz in 1848
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Friedrich Wilhelm IV, king of Prussia in 1848
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Bonn City Hall
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Louis Philippe of France
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Berlin — March 1848 — palace courtyard
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Prince Metternich, chancellor of Austria (resigned 1848)
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Rolandseck and the Seven Mountains (could be seen from Schurz's adolescent home)
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Prussian emmisary with summons for Rastatt's surrender
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Karl Marx
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Kinkel in Chains (artist's misconception)
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French actress Rachel (Portrait by Edouard Dubufe)
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Rachel as Phèdre
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Farmer Hensel drove Kinkel's escape carriage
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Herr Leddihn was a general assistant in Kinkel's escape
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Innkeeper Krüger assisted in Kinkel's escape
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Gottfried Kinkel's Escape from Spandau Reformatory
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Schurz and Kinkel's Escape Route
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Gottfried Kinkel and Carl Schurz after Spandau escape
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Gottfried Kinkel signature
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Carl Schurz signature (not very typical)
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Imaginary portrait of Schurz
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Schurz as “Student” in London (1851)
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Mazzini letter to Schurz (London, 1851)
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Carl Schurz and Margarethe Meyer Schurz
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Carl Schurz in 1852
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New York City in 1854
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James and Lucretia Mott
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Washington D. C. in 1852
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William H. Seward in 1851
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Jefferson Davis in 1853
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Chicago in 1858
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Friedrich Hecker
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Milwaukee in 1858
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Lájos Kossuth in 1851
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Abraham Lincoln in 1858
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Stephen Douglas in 1858
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Scene of Lincoln-Douglas debate in Quincy, Ill.
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United States Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
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Benjamin Butler
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1860
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Judge Goodrich of Minnesota
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Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania (fellow canvasser in Minnesota)
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Frank Blair of Missouri (fellow canvasser in Minnesota)
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U.S. President James Buchanan
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Edward Everett of Massachusetts
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Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts
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John F. Potter of Wisconsin
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Potter-antagonist and “fire-eater” Roger A. Pryor of Virginia
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Salmon P. Chase (aspired to presidency)
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Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio, Chicago convention speaker
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George William Curtis of New York, Chicago convention speaker
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Seward political manager Thurlow Weed
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The “Wigwam” in Chicago
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Abraham Lincoln shortly after nomination in 1860
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Carl Schurz in 1861 (ambassador to Spain)
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Charles Francis Adams, ambassador to U.K.
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Thackeray's lampoon of Schurz's presentation at the Spanish Court
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Queen Isabella II of Spain and the Prince Consort
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William Seward (U.S. Secretary of State) and daughter Fanny
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Charles Sumner of Massachusetts
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Brigadier General Schurz (1862)
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General John C. Frémont
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General George B. McClellan
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General Franz Sigel
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Carl Schurz in Virginia
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Major General Schurz (1863)
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Col. Friedrich Hecker
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General H. W. Slocum
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Lincoln and McClellan after Antietam
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General Ambrose E. Burnside
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General Joseph Hooker
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Chancellorsville Battlefield
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St. Joseph's (on the way to Gettysburg)
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Town of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg Battlefield
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General George G. Meade
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General Meade's headquarters at Gettysburg
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General Winfield S. Hancock
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General Alexander Schimmelfennig
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Schurz aide and future son-in-law Fritz Tiedemann
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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General Grant at Missionary Ridge
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General Joseph Hooker
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General H. W. Slocum (post-war photo)
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Jefferson Davis, Confederate president
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Charleston in 1865
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Richmond commander Otho C. Ord
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Jacob Thompson, Confederate agent to Canada
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Clement C. Clay, Confederate agent to Canada
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Lincoln successor Andrew Johnson
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Oliver O. Howard (Civil War photograph)
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Oliver O. Howard (1893)
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William L. Sharkey, provisional governor of Mississippi
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H. W. Slocum, Mississsippi commander (post-war photo)
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E.R.S. Canby, Department of Louisiana commander
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Preston King, Senator from New York
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Jim Lane, Senator from Kansas
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Conciliatory Senator John Sherman
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Conciliatory Senator Lyman Trumbull
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William P. Fessenden, Chair of Senate reconstruction committee
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Radical reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens
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Abolitionist Wendell Phillips
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Prematurely ejected Senator John Potter Stockton
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Fellow delegate Senator Zachariah Chandler
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Emil Preetorius, a proprietor of the St. Louis Westliche Post
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President Johnson impeached and acquitted
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Schurz visits Bismarck in January 1868 (and again in 1888)
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Chancellor Bismarck's Palace on Wilhelmstraße
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German General von Moltke (subject of Bismarck anecdote)
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Kaiser Wilhelm I (Bismarck's boss)
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Napoleon III (Bismarck's future opponent)
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Horatio Seymour, 1868 Democratic presidential candidate
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Frank Blair, 1868 Democratic vice-presidential candidate
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John B. Henderson, Schurz's predecessor in the U.S. Senate
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Charles D. Drake, Schurz's Missouri colleague in the Senate
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U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant
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Alexander T. Stewart nominated for Treas. Sec. but not confirmed
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Vice-president Schuyler Colfax
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U.S. Senator from Missouri Carl Schurz (1871)
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Carl Schurz in 1905
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Schurz portrait by Arthur von Ferraris (1901)
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Wreath, Volume One title page
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Charles Sumner (front view)
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Charles Sumner (side view)
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Samuel Bowles
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Charles Francis Adams
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Horace Greeley
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James G. Blaine
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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James Garfield
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Thomas F. Bayard
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Grover Cleveland
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William McKinley
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Carl Schurz in 1879
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Bas-relief by Winifred Holt (1903)
Images from Life of Henry Clay[6]
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Henry Clay
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Henry Clay signature
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Henry Clay birthplace
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Ashland
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Francis P. Blair, Sr.
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Francis P. Blair, Sr., signature
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John M. Clayton
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John M. Clayton signature
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Thomas Corwin
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Thomas Corwin signature
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John J. Crittenden
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John J. Crittenden signature
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Thomas Ewing
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Thomas Ewing signature
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Richard Rush
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Richard Rush signature
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David Wilmot
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David Wilmot signature
Notes
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- ↑ Cartoon by T.C.H.
- ↑ From the papers of Carl Schurz in the Library of Congress
- ↑ Carl Schurz, Reminiscences, 3 vols., New York: McClure Publ. Co., 1907. Portions were serialized in McClure's Magazine. It appeared in a German edition published by Georg Reimer in Berlin. Portions of the first volume of the German edition were extracted for a German reader published by Allyn and Bacon of Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1913. The images presented in the gallery are arranged in chronological order. In a later edition of volume 1 (London: J. Murray, 1909), the Ferraris portrait of Schurz appeared as the frontispiece instead of the 1906 photograph, and a photograph of Schloss Gracht was added.
- ↑ By Frederic Bancroft and William A. Dunning. Bancroft and Dunning's work was written as a supplement to Volume III of Carl Schurz's Reminiscences.
- ↑ Carl Schurz, Life of Henry Clay, 2 vols., Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (American Statesmen series), 1896 and 1899.