Hispanic Confederates Genealogy Book

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Hispanic Confederates. Third Edition
Author: O'Donnell-Rosales, John
Softbound    volume  totaling
154
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Although it is not generally acknowledged, thousands of      soldiers of Hispanic ancestry fought on behalf of the Confederacy during the      American Civil War. As a result of the Spanish colonial settlement of the      Gulf Coast states and Mexican control of the territories that were to become      Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a significant number of Hispanic-Americans      were affected by the outbreak of the Civil War. As John O’Donnell-Rosales      explains in the Introduction to the new Third Edition of his ground-breaking      list of Hispanic Confederate soldiers, many of these individuals (including      businessmen and sailors living in cities like New Orleans, St. Louis,      Natchez, Biloxi, and Mobile) would have to choose between their cultural      aversion to American slavery–which had been outlawed throughout Latin      America prior to 1860–and the desire to protect their way of life in the      South.
After consulting a number of primary and secondary sources,      including numerous rosters of Confederate soldiers, the author has compiled      the only comprehensive roster of Hispanic Confederate soldiers in print. The      number of soldiers listed here has grown to 6,175 men, a number nearly twice      as large as identified in the first edition. Included among the soldiers are      (1) persons of Jewish descent whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in      1492, (2) mestizos of Spanish/Native American ancestry who joined many of      the Texas regular and militia units, (3) mulattos of Spanish/African      ancestry, (4) soldiers of Asian descent whose forebears had emigrated from      the Philippines to Louisiana and other places along the Gulf of Mexico, (5)      Minorcans of Florida whose ancestors had intermarried with Italians,      Corsicans, and Greeks and settled in Florida under British rule, and (6)      white Spaniards.
The author has arranged the Hispanic Confederates in      alphabetical order. For each person he gives the individual’s full name,      rank, and unit. In many cases we also learn something about the individual’s      tour of duty (e.g., “Confederate Spy in Baltimore from 1861-1862,” “captured      on the Blockade Runner Stingaree off the Brazos River, TX” and so on.) At      the back of the book is a bibliography of the sources the author used in      compiling this unique list.
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