During the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Dona

Covers D'Arensbourg's early years in Europe to his death in Louisiana.

The purpose of this book is to determine the places of origin of the families recruited by John Law in 1720, and to re-examine the migration within the context

German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention h