Editing Pennsylvania Dutch (section)

===Pennsylvania Dutch during the Civil War===
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[[File:Flag--PA-79th_Infantry_Regt_(State_Color)(1985_129).jpg|right|thumb|Battle flag of the [[79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment|79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment]], composed of Pennsylvania Dutch]]
Nearly all of the regiments from Pennsylvania that fought in the [[American Civil War]] had German-speaking or Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking members on their rosters, the majority of whom were Fancy Dutch.<ref name="donaldbkraybill">{{cite book |title=The Amish and the State
|author=Donald B. Kraybill|year=2003|publisher=JHU Press|pages=45}}</ref>

Some regiments like the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry were entirely composed of Pennsylvania Dutch soldiers.<ref name="damndutch" /> The [[47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment]] also had a high percentage of German immigrants and Pennsylvania-born men of German heritage on its rosters; the regiment's K Company was formed with the intent of it being an "all-German company."<ref>''[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=d90fb765cd0cf9e7bdb007dd740c9fa1&c=moa&idno=ABY3439.0001.001&view=toc%20 History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature]'', Vol. I, pp. 1150-1190. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.</ref><ref>Snyder, Laurie. "[https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/about/ About the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers]," in ''47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment's Story''. Pennsylvania: 2014.</ref><ref>Schmidt, Lewis. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15166408 A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers]''. Allentown, Pennsylvania: L. G. Schmidt, 1986.</ref>

Pennsylvania Dutch companies sometimes mixed with English-speaking companies. (The Pennsylvania Dutch had the habit of labeling anyone who did not speak Pennsylvania Dutch "English.") Many of the Pennsylvania Dutch soldiers who fought in the Civil War were recruited and trained at [[Camp Curtin]], Pennsylvania.<ref name="damndutch" />

Pennsylvania Dutch regiments composed a large portion of the Federal Forces who fought in the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] at [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.<ref name="johngsabol">{{cite book |title=Gettysburg Unearthed: The Excavation of a Haunted History|author=John G. Sabol Jr.|year=2007|publisher=AuthorHouse|location=United States of America|pages=172}}</ref>