A Swiss View on the American Civil War

Authors

Dr. Hans Rudolf Guggisberg, Freie Universitat in Berlin

Keywords

Swiss, American Civil War

Abstract

About a year ago, the Ticino chapter of the Swiss Officers' Society published a special supplement to tis journal, the Rivista militare della Svizzera italiana. It is a little book of about 120 pages, nicely printed, well edited, and embellished with a number of good illustrations. The contents are of surprising interest to students of Swiss military history as well as to those of the America Civil War. This is the reason why we believe that the volume should be brought to the attention of the readers of the SAHS Newsletter. It contains the first publication of the repots of the American Civil War, written for and sent to the Federal Military Department of Berne by Colonel Augusto Fogliardi in the year 1863. The original manuscripts are preserved in the Federal Archives of Switzerland. They are presented here with a well-written introduction and an abundance of documentary footnotes by Dr. Giuseppe Martinola, a noted specialist of Ticinese history.

Recommended Citation

Guggisberg, Dr. Hans Rudolf (1967) "A Swiss View on the American Civil War," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 3: Iss. 3, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol3/iss3/11