03496cam a22004211 4500 8743208 20260506145720.6 820929s1928 wiucf 000 0aeng 8743208 7 cbc premver u ncip 19 y-gencatlg LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-644, LCAPM-893 29009286 (DLC) 29009286 DLC CarP DLC F576 .W81 vol. 30 E664.S39 A43 E664.S39 S26 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906. Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869. Translated and edited by Joseph Schafer, superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison, Published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928. xx p., 2 l., 491 p. front., pl., ports. 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Wisconsin historical publications. Collections ; vol. XXX 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. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Correspondence. Personal correspondence. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026141 Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941, ed. Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Collection, v. 30. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbum.09286 View online content for this title. Item 00068406389 received in CCS 2009-05-20 gc/lhbum ammem pmpull c-GenColl F576 .W81 vol. 30 Copy 1 PREM c-GenColl F576 .W81 vol. 30 Copy 2 PREM r-MSSRef E664.S39 A43 00068406389 Copy 3 PREM