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  • Welcome to Elusive Freedom!
    • About This Project
    • About the Author
    • Brothers: Benjamin and Leo
      • National Climate in 1860
        • Ft Sumter and National Tensions
        • Border Fighting and Secret Recruiting
          • Along the Ohio
          • Cincinnati, Louisville and New Orleans
          • Kentucky – A House Divided
      • Their Units
        • Secret Enlistment Across the Ohio River
        • Camp Clay (Ohio)
        • Camp Dennison
        • 2nd KY Volunteer Infantry
        • 4th U.S. Light Artillery
        • 39th KY (Mounted) Infantry
    • Contact
  • Into the Storm
    • West Virginia Campaigns
      • Steamboats on the Ohio
      • Counter-Insurgency
        • Mountain Warfare
        • Corporal Benjamin Henderman 2nd KY INF
    • Battle of Gauley Bridge
    • Battle of Shiloh (TN)
      • Advance to Corinth (MS)
    • Louisville – Nashville
      • Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky
      • Leo in the Hospital – Louisville
      • Leo on the Run
      • Benjamin 2nd KY INF Louisville – Perryville
        • Pursuit Skirmishes with Bragg
      • Battle of Perryville
      • Duty at Wildcat Creek
      • Fort Negley (Nashville)
      • Tullahoma Campaign
    • Battle of Stones River
    • Battle for Chattanooga
      • Battle of Chickamauga (GA)
      • Duty at Bridgeport (AL)
  • Family, Feds and Fugitives
    • Leo Becomes an Outlaw
      • Captured and Tried
      • Leo Re-deployed 39th Kentucky Infantry
    • The Road Home
  • History and Perspective
    • Lincoln, Douglass and Rosecrans
    • Economic Considerations
    • Preserve the Union
    • Lincoln and Kentucky
    • “Native America” in the 1800’s
    • Immigration in the 1800’s
      • German Immigrants
    • Global Slavery
      • American Slavery
        • Slave Trade in the 1800’s
          • The Slave Ships at Ft. Sumter
          • White Slaves and Forced Labor
          • Emancipation – Stones River, TN
    • Life After the War
      • The Façade of Reconstruction
        • The Rise of Domestic Terror
        • Slavery By a New Name
          • Forced Labor
        • Changing the Southern Narrative
          • The “Lost Cause”
          • The Fear of Law Enforcement
    • Where Do We Go from Here?
      • 2021 Still A House Divided
        • Modern Slavery
          • Global Conditions
          • Human Trafficking
        • Critical Race Theory
          • Black Lives Matter
        • The Juneteenth Façade
        • The Rise of Socialism
    • So What Can We Do?

Elusive Freedom

The Epic Journey of Benjamin and Leo. Two Young German Immigrants Who Fought for the Union and Survived the Bloodiest Battles of the American Civil War.

Immigration in the 1800’s

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