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The ethnonym appears in Latin as Teutonēs or Teutoni in the plural, and less commonly as Teuton or Teutonus in the singular. [2] It transparently originates from the Proto-Indo-European stem *tewtéh₂-, meaning "people, tribe, crowd," with the addition of the suffix -ones, which is frequently found in both Celtic (e.g., Lingones, Senones) and Germanic (e.g., Ingvaeones, Semnones) tribal ...
After the US entered the war, anti-German sentiment increased across the country. In 1917, the year the United States declared war on Germany, half of the city's residents could speak German, and many spoke only German. [25] The community had organized German schools and frequently held religious services in German at many churches.
Maria Stein (German, literally "Mary's stone" or "Mary of the Rock") is a census-designated place in central Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The community and the Maria Stein Convent lie at the center of the area known as the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches , where a missionary priest , Father Francis de Sales Brunner ...
Between 1836 and 1860, four German militia units had been formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. [3] In 1861, in response to a call to arms by President Abraham Lincoln and subsequently by Ohio Governor William Dennison, these units swelled with hundreds of volunteers. Gustav Bergmann, a Cincinnati public school teacher, was the first volunteer to join ...
The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War (Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Co.), 2010. ISBN 978-1-932250-86-2 [Original title: Geschichte der Deutschen Cincinnati's im Bürgerkriege. Translated and edited with supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.] ISBN 1-932250-86-7. Attribution
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The day after, a mob of nativists attacked the German Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, causing a riot in which several men died. The mob managed to destroy the ballots in two German wards. [ 1 ] The Germans organized into militia units, built a barricade across Vine Street , and successfully defended their territory.