The Cambrian Guards in the American Civil War is a Welsh Voices* presentation.

*Welsh Voices is a series of monthly free virtual seminars on Zoom, presented by experts on Welsh and Welsh North American culture and history. It is a project of The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska. For more details and links, visit greatplainswelsh.org/events

The Cambrian Guards in the American Civil War - Presented by Dr. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University

Dr. Jerry Hunter has extensively researched the men who served in the Cambrian Guards, a division of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment comprised mainly of Welsh Americans from Racine. Motivated by patriotism and opposition to slavery, the Cambrian Guards enthusiastically answered the call to arms before marching south through Kentucky and Tennessee and taking part in the siege of Atlanta. Their experiences brought them face to face with the harrowing realities of slavery, war and imprisonment, which they documented in letters and diaries written in Welsh.

​A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Jerry Hunter is an acclaimed scholar of Welsh literature, eisteddfod winner and novelist in the Welsh language. He teaches at Bangor University, and collaborates with Dr. Richard Wyn Jones on the award-winning literary podcast, Yr Hen Iaith.

Obtain the Zoom Link Here - from The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska.