Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Willie Grills talk about the first and second waves of German immigration to Missouri, their social and political tendencies, and their place in the American Civil War.

Related Books - Walter Kamphoefner, Germans in America: A Concise History  and Walter Forster, Zion on the Mississippi 

Visit our website - A Brief History of Power

Get the Family Bible Commentary by Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz

Check out the Fathers of Lutheran Orthodoxy project

Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID,  Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO, and Luther Classical College

Dr Koontz - Trinity Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church

Music thanks to Verny