Gettysburg's hidden history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle
Documents the Battle of Gettysburg through the views of women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. Features the experiences of Mag Palm, a free black woman who was threatened by the arrival of the Confederate Army; Carl Schurz, a German exile and abolitionist for the Union Army; and Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old girl who assisted a Union doctor at a field hospital.
