Figures
1.1French depictions of abolition in the West Indies by François-Auguste Biard, 1849
2.1Claus L. Clausen photographed on the island of Langeland after the Civil War
4.1Fritz Rasmussen emigrated with his family to Wisconsin in 1847 and eventually settled in New Denmark
4.2Hans Heg’s leadership ability and political savvy earned him the position of colonel when the Civil War broke out
4.3Henry Ward Beecher photographed with his famous sister Harriet after the Civil War
5.1Christian Christensen photographed in New York early in the war
5.2Drawing by Ole Balling depicting Federal troops engaging with a blockade runner near Fort Monroe in September 1861
5.3Self-portrait of painter and officer Ole Balling after the Civil War
5.4The Scandinavian Regiment’s battle flag with the inscription “For Gud og Vort Land” (For God and Our Country)
6.1Illustration of Waldemar Raaslöff, the Danish government’s representative in Washington D.C, 1866
6.2A 1928 photo of the Redfox family with Reverend Mathias B.Ordahl
6.3Count Edward Piper, sitting on the far left, is pictured with fellow diplomats at Trenton Falls, New York, in 1863
7.1A page from the Scandinavian-American newspaper Emigranten in 1863
8.1Painting of the Union Navy’s attack on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip on April 24, 1862
9.1Photos of Ferdinand and Wilhemina Winslöw along with Hans and Gunild Heg
9.2Major-General Samuel Curtis and staff photographed in St. Louis in late 1861 or early 1862
9.3A photographic print from the 1863 cartoon series “Beauties in the Draft”
9.5Ferdinand Winslöw with his brother-in-law Christian Christensen in New Orleans, 1865
10.1Photo of the mill at Dybböl that came to symbolize the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria for generations of Danes
11.1Illustration of Hans Mattson who became one of the best-known Swedish-American politicians after the Civil War
12.1Ulysses S. Grant in the trenches before Vicksburg in 1863 Painting by Ole Balling in 1865
12.2Photo of anti-slavery preacher and chaplain Claus Clausen
12.3Photo of the “Norsk Hotel” (Norwegian Hotel) in Decorah, Iowa
13.1Pastor Eric Norelius, photographed with his wife Inga in 1855
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