 They provided the bodyguard at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, and at his funeral in April 1865.In the Camp Jackson Affair, a large force of German volunteers helped prevent Confederate forces from seizing the government arsenal in St. Louis just prior to the beginning of the war.After the Civil War the national organization took a new name, "Nordamerikanischer Turnerbund" and supported German language teaching in the public high schools, as well as gymnastics.