The Civil War Ended more than 150 Years Ago, Yet Our Nation remains fiercely divided over its legacy. In^i Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, creating an absorbing chronicle of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an ethnically German regiment whose loyalties were questioned by a nativist Northern press. As Jordan reminds us, this most American of wars was waged, in part, by immigrants: one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to prove their patriotism. Jordan reveals that even as the men of the 107th endured the horrible extremes of war, including brutal fighting at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, they managed to contemplate the deeper meanings of the conflict-from personal questions of belonging to the overriding matter of emancipation. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation's history. Book jacket.