‘A Baptism of Blood’

Fighting for the Union in the US Civil War, Welsh soldiers discovered that the cost of assimilation was the loss of their native language.

Brigadier General  Joshua T. Owen, 1860-65. Courtesy US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Brigadier General Joshua T. Owen, 1860-65. Courtesy US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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