Yep. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Also, I think you dropped a zero, should be at least 50,000. One whole corps of the Army of the Potomac was made up of and led by 1848ers. It was considered the most unlucky, if not inept corp in the Union Army. They probably spent a lot of time sitting around the campfire discussing the fine points of the surplus theory of value.:o) Although in all fairness it should be remembered that they were engaged in some of the hardest fighting in the uncivil war.
The Yates essay that is packged along with the eye-strain of Cultural Logic is pretty good. Mike as usual hits all of the sore spots.
I've always liked the old motto, give the people light and they will find their own way. I guess I've got a lot of faith in the average good common sense of people. If you give people the basic tools it's amazing what they can come up with---I see it every day!
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Michael Hoover wrote:
> > Weydemeyer was his name.
> >
> > James Farmelant wrote:
> > > As I recall, one of Marx's old friends who joined the 1848 exiles
> > > in America, enlisted in the Union army as an officer, eventually rising
> > > to the rank of general.
> >
> > > >1848 German exiles in America and their Marxist influenced thinking
> > > >and
> > > >participation in the American Civil War.
> > > >Tom L.
> > --
> > Michael Perelman
>
> Joseph Weydemeyer was one of about 5,000 German "48er" emigres to the
> US who fought in the Union army...a member of the Communist League and
> a financial contributor to the *Neue Rheinische Zeitung* newspaper of
> which Marx was chief editor, he fled Germany in 1851...an abolitionist
> and labor movement activist in New York City during the 1850s, he
> edited several journals aimed at working class immigrants, supported
> Lincoln's presidential candidacy in 1860 and volunteered for the Union
> army in 1861...he was made an artillery captain because of his earlier
> artillery training in the Prussian military...he became a lieutenant
> colonel assigned to a command in the Missouri Ozarks...Weydemeyer
> resigned his command in 1864 following a mutiny and he died in 1866
> from cholera...Michael Hoover