French-Canadians in the Civil War

By John Walters on Tuesday, May 27, 2003.

Thousands of them fought in the Union Army. One was a teenager named Remi Tremblay. Years after the war, he wrote a novel about the war called Un Revenantand it?s been called the Gone With The Wind of French literature. It?s just been published in English for the first time as One Came Back. Margaret Langford, professor of French at Keene State College, is the translator. She?ll talk about the role of French-Canadians in the Civil War and the particularly interesting life of Remi Tremblay.
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