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Schurz arrived in america before the civil war.
Carl Schurz
A revolutionary, journalist, general, and statesman, Carl Schurz was already a prominent figure in the German-American community when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. Born in Prussia, Schurz attended the University of Bonn and became an active writer championing democratic reforms amidst the revolutions of 1848.
After Prussia quelled the rebellion, Schurz fled to Switzerland, France, and eventually London, where he taught the German language. In 1852, Schurz, along with numerous other Forty-Eighters, immigrated to the United States, living initially in Philadelphia but eventually migrating to Watertown, Wisconsin.
There, he continued his political activism with the abolition movement and quickly joined the rising Republican Party.
Becoming a popular midwestern Republican, Schurz was an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln and spoke on his behalf, bolstering his popularity among the German American community.
Though admitted to the Wisconsin bar, Schurz took more