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Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (continued):

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REFERENCE:

•  Franz Sigel was a German revolutionary who rose to command a corps largely composed of pro-Unionist German immigrants.
•  This songsheet shows how Sigel’s corps was portrayed in the comedic dialect popular at the time of the war…