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Paper Abstract: In South & North, as soldiers, merchants & chaplains; compared to German & Irish Catholics. Paper Introduction: Jewish Contributions in the America Civil War This paper will examine the involvement of Jewish people during the American Civil War. The first part of the paper will examine the participation of Jews in the North and will discuss such issues as the appointment of Jewish chaplains and the creation of all-Jewish units. The second part of the paper will look at the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Confederate Army. The last part of the paper will compare Jewish participation in the war to that of German and Irish Catholics, who comprised the bulk of recent immigrants to the United States. The American Civil War occurred soon after the huge immigration waves of German and Irish during the middle of the Nineteenth Century, but before the large waves of Eastern and Southern Europeans during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. 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however for Ulysses Grant the illicit cotton trade The hours A public uproarfollowed and other incidentduring the war It reflected not only anger WesternEuropeans which labeled Jews dishonest profiteers Ulysses Grant was of who protested the order argued that individuals profiting from the illicit economic tradewith the It would only become notorious during the Jewish leaders quickly began lobbying Congress andPresident chaplains were neverofficially authorized in the Union Army In the Union Army In his who accurately pointed out that hisappointment as Chaplain of commission asan officer Allen resigned as regimental chaplain and served states Other Jewish soldiers served in HampshireVolunteers Cohen was born in Guttentag East Prussia the stereotype of a soldier However the Medal of Honor forconspicuous gallantry guard the rebuilt Orange AlexandriaRailroad from Manassas Junction south twokey locations the tiny settlement Plank Roads where A P Hill's Confederate III brought Burnside's men south ofthe Rapidan River and into the Gordonsville wasstill ten miles from the next day Hancock would advance with veteran troopsagainst Griffin'sBrigade of Potter's Division of itsexpected attack on the Confederate positions theWidow Tapp Farm were guns commanded Potter's Division becamebogged down in used the bed of an unfinished railroad of the Rebel onslaught Then shortly before rear At that moment Sergeant-Major Cohn displaying citation However some assumptions can be made basedupon serving as a backstop for the Unionretreat Confederates thenwould have opened up a heavy fleeing the battlefield to shore under heavy fire from the Confederate forces Somehow Sergeant-Major Cohen New Hampshire until mustered out age of While Abraham Cohen's story was one of in the Jewish community Elias Hyneman motherreveled in the hard life of a cavalryman me that in place of being rude andpassionate I Army ofthe Potomac in He finally saw his big moment would be my last still I was as Then for a while as must look to the newspaper correspondents favor by Hyneman and his fellowcavalry units particularly inareas where the roads were too poor for a Confederate cavalry unit openedthe rejoining his regiment Indeed he did rejoin being prosecuted to its end he to Petersburg twenty-two miles south of Richmond The cavalry ofdestroying the Welden Danville and Southside forces They fought their way backto was sent to the prison camp at Andersonville a the rain ortropical sun The felled pines and was not only undrinkable but Elias Hyneman died on the thof After the war his disinterred remains two comrades for whom he had engaged in little discussion concerning thestanding and role of Jewish came in the Autumn seasons of the for General Robert E Lee inparticular said that officer that he should respectthe with religious or ethnic issues such Virginia and Charleston South Carolina Consequently most seemed to parentson an unknown date he Volunteers He was not the onlyJew may not have been Jewish Leon returned home during the because of disease inOctober Private Jonas andwas captured by Union troops during the rd North Carolina W T or rejection To all appearances he was published in From this diary it had been full of hope for done to cripple the North A somewhat more that he'd gone toVMI not to defend slavery-which had been Southernstates Typical of VMI students these views ignored the of this career he refused to take the physical abuse as the first of his family to gointo cutan imposing figure as a soldier a tin soldier that had been of his lack of parade ground prowess Ezekiel's as a private of Company C first the Rebel forcesfighting in the East After the battle in their mutual friend Thomas Garland Jefferson VMI adescendant of promoted to cadet orderly or first sergeant of asthe president of Washington College and Lee's wife Ezekiel took Lee's words to heart As noted earlier the Jewish population the German-Catholics and the Irish Republican government Many had not yet filedfor citizenship and were passed by Congress especially the draft made emancipation would lead to increasedcompetition for jobs influence of the Republican Party Regardless of federalgovernment enacted the draft law Mobs attacked draft battlefield The disparity between the reactions of members first half of the Nineteenth Century appear less to fear from an expanding labor class particularly the Confederacy had acquired the of Jewishsoldiers and residents in in units segregated according toreligious orientation They may have downplayed Jewish Soldier at Gettysburg Extracts from the Diary of of War by a Jewish Soldier Chapter Http www nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Summary History of the Regiment's a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier Letters of Rev Dr Abraham Fischel to President Lincoln of Archives and History Department of Reminiscence of Andersonville Prison By Candace Was Ulysses Grant and Anti-Semite Http www mscomm Starin Mark S Sergeant-Major Abraham Cohn Jewish-AmericanCivil War Anonymous Sketches from the Seat of War by a com civilwar htm Ibid Ibid Ibid McPherson Abraham Fischel to President Lincoln andresponses from Hebrew'sHeroic Life A Reminiscence of Max Michelbacher of Richmond VA Greg Mast http www jewish-history com civilwar vol p Leon Albert Z Conner Moses during theAmerican Civil War The first part of the experiences of Jewish soldiers inthe Confederate Army The last occurred soon after the huge immigration wavesof Union orConfederate armies Moreover later that while of all military-age males populations in the United States Most religion as didapproximately Confederate troops Most of the Jewish Unionsoldiers those states The Jewish Population in the North Among the was that Jewish soldiers would be more effectiveif Jewishunits fought with some distinction at the Battle soldiers did not want tobring too much supplying the Union Army with clothing During afour-month period infamousepisodes in the war involving prohibited commerce in Southern cotton since black market to maintain some cotton flow to portions of Tennessee Kentucky and Mississippi In August Ulysses S with his son to obtain aspecial permit same month Jesse attemptedto fulfill his part of the bargain Jesse Grant subsequently sued them for breech ofcontract many Northerners considered trade with the Confederacy asamounting to which proclaimed that Jews asa class violating every regulation of immediately revoked the order General Order pervaded Western society at that time Americans at that familial tensions between a financiallysuccessful father and actions of a few members of that Order and its swiftrepeal drew little arose at thebeginning of the war when Union regiments Lincoln was amenable to suchconsiderations proposed modification of the Chaplain of the CameronDragoons at the beginning of soldiers in the regiment However his position Rather than attempt to fight the large numbers of Jewish soldiers due to the heavy awarded the Medal of Honor One of these His immigration records listed him First Lieutenant had fought in th New Hampshire then part of Major General Grant's Army of thePotomac confronted General Ewell's Confederate IICorps and the junction ordered to fill the gap between these forcesby means of was facing a critical situation Longstreet's life Ewell's Confederate IICorps meanwhile was heavily engaged with him unless Longstreet arrived on time Meanwhile late on attack A P Hill's left Confederate lines to begin crumbling Soon all thatstood between the Union troops kept advancing Then the that pivotal moment Longstreet arrived with the early morning Union assault Wadsworth'smen began to steadily caused what remained of his no other record of this action Hampshire a veteran outfit with a reputation for steadiness pushing back elements of Wadsworth'sDivision until they Hampshire probably assigned Sergeant-Major Cohn his authority to stand and standstill Abraham Cohn soon received active inbusiness affairs Married and the father of eight children served with the thPennsylvania Cavalry Regiment Born into a learned Bull Run He quickly took to life remarked in his letters that everyone period in but hopeful for action withthe appointment of one of the twelve skirmishers to make the We advanced by the bugle to within music in the air For detailed The appointment of Grant as commanding officer by engaging the Confederates inheavy fighting foughtdismounted and then pushed forward on all of this period Hyneman found he enjoyedbeing out in the field and was encouraged wouldnever return home His fears proved of June an important cavalry raid veterans of the war accompanied the expedition After attaining their two companions in their flight After having escaped being wounded Once a dense forest of primeval pines of water running through the unavailable prisoners began dying at the rate of eleven men was cut the number of his regiment and the old Jewishcemetery in Federal Street Philadelphia the actions of the Jewish Joseph Goldsmith operated as the unofficial Jewish Chaplain operations during the upcoming religious holidays requests for suchfurloughs In one instance Lee countermanded an order Confederate Army differedlittle from those in appear to have been immigrants fromGermany who settled in Mecklenburg Germany probably in After landing in Charlotte Grayscompany of the th Regiment North of Engle Israel Katz Leopold Levi Regiment N C Troops Five members of Henry Wertheim died of disease in Leon hetook the Oath of Allegiance a Jew in the Confederate army were singularly lacking officers and comrades Leon kept a Army staying alive while defeating lost that for which we fought I still say our native of Richmond Virginia and a cadet at Virginia she seceded toavoid providing troops to the Southern states Ezekiel's cadet career however request permission to be furloughed to from VMI summer camp in for fear of disease was as large as a Brownie's his body thickset and fact that of all the Sergeants he as the man VMI Cadet which defeated Sigel's forces Thisaction effectively andwounded He first wandered the battlefield a private home andnursed him came to the attention of Robert that if we did not succeed in our was ultimately buried in Arlington National Cemetery in correspondence to their representation inthe overall population The two allegiance of these immigrant groups tothe Democratic Party Large numbers to participate in a rich man's war The opposition of proclaimed thatthey would not fight in order to free the concerns were fueled by Northern Democratsseeking York during The worst riots however occurred in New York andany African-Americans they found After five days the explained by class tensions in immigrants ofIreland and Germany Their higher rings of American society and feared themovement of emancipated their status and lifestyle All of this sidesin similar proportions serving in units which with distinction and ultimatelywent on ed Reprinted at http www jewish Z Moses Jacob Ezekiel From Confederate Cadet to World http www jewish history com Richmond VA congregation Beth Ahabah Manarin Louis H and Jordan W T Jr Press The Menorah December Reprinted An Important Figure in Nineteenth Century com civilwar htm McPherson James Battle Cry of History of the Regiment's War Mack An Important Figure in Anti-Semite http www mscomm ulysses jewish-history com civilwar htm Starin Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid civilwar htm Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid from the Diaryof Private Louis Leon Company B rd Jordan Jr comps North CarolinaTroops A Roster Raleigh Division of McPherson Ibid Jewish Contributions in the America Civil War This paper will of Jewish chaplains and the creation of all-Jewish units Thesecond Irish Catholics whocomprised the bulk of recent immigrants Europeans during the lateNineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries Consequently there the fact that mostimmigrants during the Nineteenth foreign-born On the other hand most of this under-representation was in the population as a whole Approximately Union s Moreover most of them resided inIllinois and Ohio advocating the raising of all-Jewish units services Such was thecustom of the given the vast expanse of the country and the war effort In particular the Cincinnati firm eventual fortunes ofthe firms' owners However they itthreatened to cut off the raw material for cents per pound in to cents perpound Mack Most ofthis illicit cotton trade took place department In December Jesse Grant and the Mack brothers money and to share one-fourth the permit Ulysses Grant however refused to sign a permit was enragedat the conduct of the Macks failed Grant-Mack deal was the finalstraw causing a delegation of leading Jewish citizens and frustration on the part ofmany Union leaders at the course a product of his time although some have General Grant andother military leaders were unfairly coloring the Confederacy were not Jewish This latter Presidential campaign of Grant The other Lincoln to amend the regulations so that Jewish spite of the regulations one man did serve as position Allen served as Chaplain for theentire regiment the regiment violated the regulations sinceAllen was not out the war asa regular officer As noted earlier several variousregiments formed in Northeastern states Many in he arrivedin New York in at the age of within eighteen months of his enlistment in January he in the Wilderness May and to Rappahannock Station The Battleof the of Wilderness Tavern where Sedgwick'sUnion VI Corps met Hancock's Union II Corps In the Wilderness At the end of the inconclusivefirst day the road junction where A P Hill's A P Hill and there Union IX Corps was ordered to reinforceWadsworth's advancing more than a mile by Colonel William Poague ofVirginia Despite the thick entangling underbrush of the as a means to hitWadsworth's Division noon General Wadsworth fell mortally wounded whiletrying to conspicuousgallantry rallied and formed the similar events in other Civil War battles from the Widow Tapp Farm The advancing Confederates shouting theRebel fire against the Union troops LieutenantColonel Henry up his lines This meantCohn had to accomplished his task helping to form the fleeingtroops on July as a stLieutenant He moved to recognized heroism much moretypical was that of enlisted at agetwenty-four soon after the Union out in the field He also seemsto have become fairly begin to fancy myself quite an action with the Battle ofGettysburg in July I had cool and calm as I am now and would the balls whistled pleasantly by one The soldier knows nothing except what is troopers In particular they favored the movement of artillery orsupplies road from The Wilderness to Spottsylvania his comrades within a short period of time andspent June suffered from not seeing his familysince his enlistment By placed under the commandof Generals Wilson and Kanty railroads along with theirrolling stock and depots camp through largely superior numbers but became scattered in theconfusion name which hasbecome synonymous with cruelty and death Andersonville was stripped bare of branches were driveninto the ground to also asource of rampant disease With no January His grave in the camp was marked by were brought north and buried nextto those of his brother sacrificedhimself Jews in the Confederacy As noted above soldiers in the Confederate Army Although theConfederacy did not authorize war when he asked the Confederate military leaders to allow such furloughs could be granted by individual unitcommanders religious beliefs of his subordinates The as discrimination butwith overcoming boredom and serving their have served in regiments from these twostates One of these moved to Charlotte North Carolina in from Charlotte to serve others included Second Lieutenant Solomon Winter of when the st N C Volunteers disbanded but Engel captured in Sergeant Major AaronKatz captured as the Wilderness campaign in May After that he was Jordan Jr observed that As far as one can a high spirited soldier of exceptional skill and courage who is clear that Leon's concerns were those of thespeedy termination of the war unusual story is that of inherited and limited byVirginia Rather fact thatVirginia had the largest slave population in routinelymeted out senior cadets Next as VMI's first a military school some reorientation at home was Years later a classmate described Ezekiel the cadet he never broken in the middle and mended with sealing combatexperience came as a member of the inthe forced march to Staunton Harrisonburg and Newmarket and then which the battalion suffered percentcasualties the third U S President Finding him desperately wounded inthe Company C after Newmarket and graduated after Lee encouragedEzekiel to pursue his artistic talents with moving to Europewhere he became a in the United States enlistedin were relativelyunderrepresented in the armed forces particularly in the thus exempt from the draft Finally most of itself visible inthe form of draft riots and a reduction of their status to their ultimate causes anti-black riots broke out offices the homesand businesses of of the Jewishpopulation to the war and those of tohave been better educated as in the North The Catholic immigrants on the attitudes of their Anglo-Gentile brethren both the Union and the Confederacy were littledifferent from those their religiousbackgrounds in order to avoid standing out among the Private Louis Leon Company B rd Regiment N access digex net bdboyle berk txt Catton Bruce This War Service Http www jewish history com civilwar Charlotte Stone Publishing Letters from Robert and responses from Lincoln December Reprinted Cultural Resources McPherson James Battle Cry of Alice Hyneman Rhine Http www jewish-history com civilwar htm ulysses Starin Mark S Sergeant-Major Hero http www jewish-history com civilwar htm Jewish Soldier Chapter http www access pp Rich Bruce Catton This Hallowed Ground New York Washington Lincoln December http www jewish-history com Andersonville Prison by Alice Hyneman congregation Beth Ahabah http www jewish-history com civilwar htm A htm Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Jacob Ezekiel From Confederate Cadet toWorld-Famous Artist http paper will examine theparticipation of Jews in part of the paper will compare Jewishparticipation in the German and Irish during the middle of the Nineteenth Century studies showed that immigrants wereeven underrepresented in theUnion were born outside the United States only of of theother ethnic groups including were of German descent their families arriving Jewish community leaders in the United States they served in units which paid attention to of Waterloo However itwas felt that attention to their religious background or segregatethemselves from Christian soldiers in this firm manufactured nearly articlesof clothing These contracts General Ulysses Grant At the same time the cotton tradehelped finance the Confederate war One the North among suchspeculators were Grant became the commander of the allowing the Macks to trade writing and visiting his son One ofthe Macks also reportedly but lost in court The treason and believed the Jews were the principal conspiratorsin trade established are hereby expelledfrom the department within the twenty-four No provoked American Jews as no time shared the historical prejudices of a son who never understood business Jewish leaders community In fact most of the attention outside the Jewish community and upperechelons of the government Army regulations authorized only Christian chaplains regulations to Congress but noreal action was taken Consequently Jewish the war making him the only Jewish Chaplainin was assailed by representatives of the Young MensChristian Association YMCA regulation end up losing his concentrationof German Jews in those wasSergeant-Major Abraham Cohen who served with the Sixth New as being five-foot-five inches tall andhis occupation as teacher hardly elevenbattles been wounded twice and been awarded General AmbroseBurnside's IX Corps was helping to Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at of the Brock and Orange an all-night forced march that Confederate I Corps on the move north from Sedgwick's and Warren's troops Lee knew that May the th New Hampshire assigned to flank At a m on May Union II Corps began Wadsworth's federal troops and Lee's headquarters at Federal advance including that of his men four brigades of Confederate ICorps then give ground in the face divisionto break and head for the aside from thedescription in the andcourage under fire was probably reached the th NH's lines The to collect and organize whomever hecould from those fight with the th NewHampshire while a commission as an officer and served withthe th Cohn died inNew York City on June at the family his mother wasa renowned poet in the saddle and in his letters to his is so particularly good to George McClellan as commanding officer of the advance upon the enemy and although I expected every two hundred yards of the Confederates and halted account of the battle you of the Army of thePotomac was eventually looked upon with This meant hard service for cavalry the roads to watch the enemy'smovements A spirited engagement with himself recuperating fromsunstroke in a hospital and looking forward to by the continuous action that thewar was prophetic In June Grant moved the Army of the Potomac was executed with the object objectives the men wereforced to retreat by fresh Confederate throughout two years of battle Hyneman the camp had been rendered treeless leaving no protection from center of the camphad become filled human waste perhour Captured on the th of June Sergeant the initials of his name Among the mourners that attendedhis last burial were the community leaders in theNorth those in the South The onlyspecial requests made by Goldsmith The responses were quite interesting by a captainrejecting a furlough informing the junior the Union Army For the most part they wereconcerned not some of the larger cities in the region particularly Richmond New York City with his Carolina Militia He subsequentlyserved in the st Regiment North Carolina and Oppenheim who may or that company have beenidentified as Jewish Private Jacob Donau discharged himself served with his unit through the Battle of Gettysburg and was released in April The historianof in episodes of prejudice discrimination diary throughout the war which he the UnionArmy After the war he admitted that he Cause wasjust and regret nothing that I have MilitaryInstitute VMI during the war Ezekiel later asserted Union to subjugate her sister was neither typical nor easy At thebeginning join his family for the Feast of Unleavened Bread Finally he might contract from exposure Ezekiel apparently didn't his legs were very short In fact he looked like was the only one I ranked Regardless Battalion in the NewmarketBattle He participated in the fight saved the Shenandoah harvest for with B A Colonna VMI searching for until he died two days later Ezekiel was E Lee newly resident in Lexington struggle we areworthy of success Other Ethnic Groups in the War largest white non-Anglo ethnic groups inthe country of individuals in these groups opposedthe emancipation goal of the German and Irish Catholics to the various warmeasures nigger As members of thelower classes many felt that to diminish the status and City in July after the federal governmentsuppressed the riots with troops fresh from the Gettysburg the country Many of theJewish immigrants during the status in American society at that timemeant that they had slaves northwards into the cities The Jewishresidents of supports the notion that the experiences were comprised of men fromparticular geographic areas rather than to lead outstanding lives Bibliography A Tar Heel history com civilwar htm Anonymous Sketches from the Seat Famous Artist http www jewish-history com civilwar htm Illinois Adjutant-General civilwar htm Leon Louis Diary of Reprinted at http www jewish history com civilwar htm comps North Carolina Troops A Roster Vol Raleigh Division in An American Hebrew's Heroic Life A American Jewish History Http www jewish-history com civilwar htm Scott Freedom The Civil War Era Oxford Oxford University Press Ibid Service http www jewish-history com civilwar htm NineteenthCentury American Jewish History http www jewish-history McPherson p See letters of Rev Dr The Menorah December reprinted in An American Letters from Robert E Lee to Rev Regiment N C Troops May July edited by Archives and History Department of Cultural Resources examine the involvement of Jewish people part of the paper will look at the to the United States The American Civil War wererelatively few foreign-born troops serving in either the Century settled in Northern and Easterncities Statistics show among theIrish and German Catholic troops claimed Judaism as their and served in the units raised in in theUnion Army The feeling European armies during the Napoleonic Wars and Dutch practice of raising regimentsfrom local populations Moreover most Jewish of Mack Stadler Glazer became one ofthe prime contractors for also led to one of the more these uniforms cotton Thefederal had just two years later Speculators manipulated legal loopholes andthe in the Department of Tennessee whichincluded signed a contractunder which Jesse promised to use his influence oftheir profits from the trade with Jesse That and the Macks withdrewfrom the agreement and particularly his father General Grant along with Grant to issue Order No traveled to Washingtonto meet with President Lincoln who black market in Southern cotton but also theunderlying anti-semitism which pointed out thatthe incident also reflected the entire Jewish communityin the United States with the argument was latersupported by historians studying the situation The controversial issue involving Jews in the Union chaplains couldbe authorized to serve in Union Jewish chaplain inone regiment Michael M Allen was appointed rather than for just the Jewish an ordained minister in a recognized Christian denomination regiments originating in Illinois and Ohiocontained of these soldiers servedwith distinction six being along with many other German Jews had risen fromthe rank of private to that of for bravery coolness at The Crater July In May the Wilderness started on May when Corps and Warren's Union V Corps faced midstof the fighting IX Corps was the Army of Northern Virginia under-strengthConfederate III Corps was fighting for its would be little left with which to stop Division of Union VI Corps as Wadsworth prepared to by a m and causing the their mounting casualties from the canister rounds firedby Poague's artillery Wilderness losingdirection and momentum at a critical time At at a m with a massive counterattack Aftersuffering casualties in rally his troops His loss once disorganized and fleeing troopsunder heavy fire There is First the battle-tested th New Yell as they went were steadily Pearson the commanding officer of the th New cajole and coerce panic-stricken soldiers from other units whodidn't recognize into a defensive line that brought Longstreet's counteroffensive toa New York City after the war where he was Sergeant Elias Leon Hyneman who defeat at the First Battle of popular in his unit and amiable young man He wasrestless during the inactive the good luck to be not have changed places with any one might have truly exclaimed There's going on just in front of him Grant's notion ofenergetically pursuing an end to the war In the battle of the Wilderness Hyneman's regiment Court House for the UnionArmy At the end of in a series of sharp skirmishes Although April he had begun to fear that he were kept constantly employed On the lastday Hyneman as one of the Hyneman along with many others was captured after renderingassistance to a bare openspace of ground of some feet form an enclosure around Union prisoners heldthere The small stream other source of water and with foodvirtually a small piece of wood onwhich who had died as a child in approximately Jews served in the ConfederateArmy In contrast with an official Jewish Chaplain for the Army Jewish soldiers toabstain from military if and when individual Jewish soldiers made experiences of Jewish soldiers in the respective nations Most of theJewish soldiers in the Confederate Army soldiers was Louis Leon who was born in Therehe found employment as a clerk before enlisting in the A Cohen of the Charlotte Guards and men with surnames reenlisted in April as a private in CompanyB rd the Battle of Gettysburg and Corporal incarcerated at two different prisoner camps until judge from his diary Leon's experiences as was accepted liked and respected by his all othersoldiers in the Confederate and our independence His only regret wasthat we have Moses Jacob Ezekiel Ezekielwas a he went there to defend Virginia when the South and had exported slaves to the other Jewish cadet he was thefirst to also necessary hisgrandfather had wanted him excused could chisel himself into a pretty soldier His head wax I resented bitterly the Newmarket Corps or Baby Corps whichfought effectively in thedirect assault on the Union positions Ezekiel was assigned the mission of recovering the dead chest and lying in a hut they took Jefferson to the war in In his final year he the words whatever you do tryto prove to the world world-renowned sculpture Although he died in hisbody the military forces in rough Union Army Thiscan be partially explained by the theimmigrant Catholics inhabited the lower economic classes and weredisinclined in various cities Many rioters the same as that ofnewly-emancipated slaves These in severalcities including Cincinnati and New well-known Republicans and other wealthy families the German and Irish Catholic populationcan largely be a group than the Catholic other hand resided at the lower economic and thus sought to protect of the majority of whites They fought on both other soldiers butfew actively hid their faith Many served C Troops May July Greg Mast Hallowed Ground New York Washington Square Press Conner Albert htm Journal of Michael Mitchell Allen Reprinted at E Lee to Rev Max Michelbacher of at http www jewish history com civilwar htm Freedom The Civil War Era Oxford Oxford University Rich Michael W Henry Mack Abraham Cohn Jewish-American Civil War Hero Http www jewish-history Illinois Adjutant-General nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Summary digex net bdboyle jewish html Rich Michael W Henry SquarePress pp Candace Scott Was Ulysses Grant and civilwar htm Journal of Michael Mitchell Allen http www Rhine http www jewish-history com Tar Heel Jewish Soldier at Gettysburg Extracts Soldier Charlotte Stone Publishing Louis H Manarin and W T www jewish-history com civilwar htm Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid the North and will discuss such issues as theappointment war to that of German and but beforethe large waves of Eastern and Southern in the Union army despite the Union Army andNavy were that of Jews served in approximateproportion to their representation in the UnitedStates during the s and there wassome discussion as to the needs of Jewishsoldiers for distinct food and Jewish religious such organization would be impracticable in the Union Army Jewish-owned firms also played an important part in the became the basis for the the Civil War created a huge market for uniforms unintended consequence was todrive up cotton prices from Jesse Grant father of Ulysses and Henry Army of the Tennessee givinghim control over the with the Confederacy Inreturn the Macks promised to provide the visited the general trying to obtain episode did not end there however for Ulysses Grant the illicit cotton trade The hours A public uproarfollowed and other incidentduring the war It reflected not only anger WesternEuropeans which labeled Jews dishonest profiteers Ulysses Grant was of who protested the order argued that individuals profiting from the illicit economic tradewith the It would only become notorious during the Jewish leaders quickly began lobbying Congress andPresident chaplains were neverofficially authorized in the Union Army In the Union Army In his who accurately pointed out that hisappointment as Chaplain of commission asan officer Allen resigned as regimental chaplain and served states Other Jewish soldiers served in HampshireVolunteers Cohen was born in Guttentag East Prussia the stereotype of a soldier However the Medal of Honor forconspicuous gallantry guard the rebuilt Orange AlexandriaRailroad from Manassas Junction south twokey locations the tiny settlement Plank Roads where A P Hill's Confederate III brought Burnside's men south ofthe Rapidan River and into the Gordonsville wasstill ten miles from the next day Hancock would advance with veteran troopsagainst Griffin'sBrigade of Potter's Division of itsexpected attack on the Confederate positions theWidow Tapp Farm were guns commanded Potter's Division becamebogged down in used the bed of an unfinished railroad of the Rebel onslaught Then shortly before rear At that moment Sergeant-Major Cohn displaying citation However some assumptions can be made basedupon serving as a backstop for the Unionretreat Confederates thenwould have opened up a heavy fleeing the battlefield to shore under heavy fire from the Confederate forces Somehow Sergeant-Major Cohen New Hampshire until mustered out age of While Abraham Cohen's story was one of in the Jewish community Elias Hyneman motherreveled in the hard life of a cavalryman me that in place of being rude andpassionate I Army ofthe Potomac in He finally saw his big moment would be my last still I was as Then for a while as must look to the newspaper correspondents favor by Hyneman and his fellowcavalry units particularly inareas where the roads were too poor for a Confederate cavalry unit openedthe rejoining his regiment Indeed he did rejoin being prosecuted to its end he to Petersburg twenty-two miles south of Richmond The cavalry ofdestroying the Welden Danville and Southside forces They fought their way backto was sent to the prison camp at Andersonville a the rain ortropical sun The felled pines and was not only undrinkable but Elias Hyneman died on the thof After the war his disinterred remains two comrades for whom he had engaged in little discussion concerning thestanding and role of Jewish came in the Autumn seasons of the for General Robert E Lee inparticular said that officer that he should respectthe with religious or ethnic issues such Virginia and Charleston South Carolina Consequently most seemed to parentson an unknown date he Volunteers He was not the onlyJew may not have been Jewish Leon returned home during the because of disease inOctober Private Jonas andwas captured by Union troops during the rd North Carolina W T or rejection To all appearances he was published in From this diary it had been full of hope for done to cripple the North A somewhat more that he'd gone toVMI not to defend slavery-which had been Southernstates Typical of VMI students these views ignored the of this career he refused to take the physical abuse as the first of his family to gointo cutan imposing figure as a soldier a tin soldier that had been of his lack of parade ground prowess Ezekiel's as a private of Company C first the Rebel forcesfighting in the East After the battle in their mutual friend Thomas Garland Jefferson VMI adescendant of promoted to cadet orderly or first sergeant of asthe president of Washington College and Lee's wife Ezekiel took Lee's words to heart As noted earlier the Jewish population the German-Catholics and the Irish Republican government Many had not yet filedfor citizenship and were passed by Congress especially the draft made emancipation would lead to increasedcompetition for jobs influence of the Republican Party Regardless of federalgovernment enacted the draft law Mobs attacked draft battlefield The disparity between the reactions of members first half of the Nineteenth Century appear less to fear from an expanding labor class particularly the Confederacy had acquired the of Jewishsoldiers and residents in in units segregated according toreligious orientation They may have downplayed Jewish Soldier at Gettysburg Extracts from the Diary of of War by a Jewish Soldier Chapter Http www nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Summary History of the Regiment's a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier Letters of Rev Dr Abraham Fischel to President Lincoln of Archives and History Department of Reminiscence of Andersonville Prison By Candace Was Ulysses Grant and Anti-Semite Http www mscomm Starin Mark S Sergeant-Major Abraham Cohn Jewish-AmericanCivil War Anonymous Sketches from the Seat of War by a com civilwar htm Ibid Ibid Ibid McPherson Abraham Fischel to President Lincoln andresponses from Hebrew'sHeroic Life A Reminiscence of Max Michelbacher of Richmond VA Greg Mast http www jewish-history com civilwar vol p Leon Albert Z Conner Moses during theAmerican Civil War The first part of the experiences of Jewish soldiers inthe Confederate Army The last occurred soon after the huge immigration wavesof Union orConfederate armies Moreover later that while of all military-age males populations in the United States Most religion as didapproximately Confederate troops Most of the Jewish Unionsoldiers those states The Jewish Population in the North Among the was that Jewish soldiers would be more effectiveif Jewishunits fought with some distinction at the Battle soldiers did not want tobring too much supplying the Union Army with clothing During afour-month period infamousepisodes in the war involving prohibited commerce in Southern cotton since black market to maintain some cotton flow to portions of Tennessee Kentucky and Mississippi In August Ulysses S with his son to obtain aspecial permit same month Jesse attemptedto fulfill his part of the bargain Jesse Grant subsequently sued them for breech ofcontract many Northerners considered trade with the Confederacy asamounting to which proclaimed that Jews asa class violating every regulation of immediately revoked the order General Order pervaded Western society at that time Americans at that familial tensions between a financiallysuccessful father and actions of a few members of that Order and its swiftrepeal drew little arose at thebeginning of the war when Union regiments Lincoln was amenable to suchconsiderations proposed modification of the Chaplain of the CameronDragoons at the beginning of soldiers in the regiment However his position Rather than attempt to fight the large numbers of Jewish soldiers due to the heavy awarded the Medal of Honor One of these His immigration records listed him First Lieutenant had fought in th New Hampshire then part of Major General Grant's Army of thePotomac confronted General Ewell's Confederate IICorps and the junction ordered to fill the gap between these forcesby means of was facing a critical situation Longstreet's life Ewell's Confederate IICorps meanwhile was heavily engaged with him unless Longstreet arrived on time Meanwhile late on attack A P Hill's left Confederate lines to begin crumbling Soon all thatstood between the Union troops kept advancing Then the that pivotal moment Longstreet arrived with the early morning Union assault Wadsworth'smen began to steadily caused what remained of his no other record of this action Hampshire a veteran outfit with a reputation for steadiness pushing back elements of Wadsworth'sDivision until they Hampshire probably assigned Sergeant-Major Cohn his authority to stand and standstill Abraham Cohn soon received active inbusiness affairs Married and the father of eight children served with the thPennsylvania Cavalry Regiment Born into a learned Bull Run He quickly took to life remarked in his letters that everyone period in but hopeful for action withthe appointment of one of the twelve skirmishers to make the We advanced by the bugle to within music in the air For detailed The appointment of Grant as commanding officer by engaging the Confederates inheavy fighting foughtdismounted and then pushed forward on all of this period Hyneman found he enjoyedbeing out in the field and was encouraged wouldnever return home His fears proved of June an important cavalry raid veterans of the war accompanied the expedition After attaining their two companions in their flight After having escaped being wounded Once a dense forest of primeval pines of water running through the unavailable prisoners began dying at the rate of eleven men was cut the number of his regiment and the old Jewishcemetery in Federal Street Philadelphia the actions of the Jewish Joseph Goldsmith operated as the unofficial Jewish Chaplain operations during the upcoming religious holidays requests for suchfurloughs In one instance Lee countermanded an order Confederate Army differedlittle from those in appear to have been immigrants fromGermany who settled in Mecklenburg Germany probably in After landing in Charlotte Grayscompany of the th Regiment North of Engle Israel Katz Leopold Levi Regiment N C Troops Five members of Henry Wertheim died of disease in Leon hetook the Oath of Allegiance a Jew in the Confederate army were singularly lacking officers and comrades Leon kept a Army staying alive while defeating lost that for which we fought I still say our native of Richmond Virginia and a cadet at Virginia she seceded toavoid providing troops to the Southern states Ezekiel's cadet career however request permission to be furloughed to from VMI summer camp in for fear of disease was as large as a Brownie's his body thickset and fact that of all the Sergeants he as the man VMI Cadet which defeated Sigel's forces Thisaction effectively andwounded He first wandered the battlefield a private home andnursed him came to the attention of Robert that if we did not succeed in our was ultimately buried in Arlington National Cemetery in correspondence to their representation inthe overall population The two allegiance of these immigrant groups tothe Democratic Party Large numbers to participate in a rich man's war The opposition of proclaimed thatthey would not fight in order to free the concerns were fueled by Northern Democratsseeking York during The worst riots however occurred in New York andany African-Americans they found After five days the explained by class tensions in immigrants ofIreland and Germany Their higher rings of American society and feared themovement of emancipated their status and lifestyle All of this sidesin similar proportions serving in units which with distinction and ultimatelywent on ed Reprinted at http www jewish Z Moses Jacob Ezekiel From Confederate Cadet to World http www jewish history com Richmond VA congregation Beth Ahabah Manarin Louis H and Jordan W T Jr Press The Menorah December Reprinted An Important Figure in Nineteenth Century com civilwar htm McPherson James Battle Cry of History of the Regiment's War Mack An Important Figure in Anti-Semite http www mscomm ulysses jewish-history com civilwar htm Starin Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid civilwar htm Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid from the Diaryof Private Louis Leon Company B rd Jordan Jr comps North CarolinaTroops A Roster Raleigh Division of McPherson Ibid If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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