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Title: The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen
Author: Wolf, Simon
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THE AMERICAN JEW
AS
PATRIOT, SOLDIER AND CITIZEN.
[Illustration: STATUE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia.]
THE
AMERICAN JEW
AS
PATRIOT, SOLDIER AND CITIZEN
BY
SIMON WOLF
EDITED BY
LOUIS EDWARD LEVY
PHILADELPHIA
THE LEVYTYPE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK--CHICAGO--WASHINGTON
BRENTANO'S
1895
"And Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you
free."--John, viii, 32.
To All
Who Love and Seek the Truth
This Work is Dedicated
BY
The Author.
EDITOR'S PREFACE.
It were an error to suppose that prejudice is always the offspring of
ignorance, inasmuch as the reverse is very frequently true. Not seldom
is ignorance the result of prejudice, through a willful refusal to
recognize such facts as run counter to the latter. A more accurate
simile would, therefore, be the likening of prejudice and ignorance to
twins, of whom either may be the precursor of the other, and either
one the stronger of the two. The prejudices which follow ordinary
ignorance give way readily before increasing knowledge of the truth,
but where prejudice is the elder of the twin vices, it is usually the
most obstinate as well. "None so blind as those who will not see" is an
old aphorism whose truth is universally recognized. This obstinate kind
of prejudice is usually but a form of self-conceit, as the latter, in
turn, is but another form of ignorance.
To combat one of the most obstinate of all obstinate prejudices, and
to promote enlightenment on a subject whereof ignorance has become
unpardonable, has been undertaken by Hon. Simon Wolf in the work before
us. His impelling motive has been to enforce a recognition of the
Jewish people as a militant factor in the upbuilding of the State, and
of Judaism as a primal force in the furtherance of civilization, and he
has chosen as his weapons the simple truth of history and the testimony
of leaders among men.
A notable French writer remarks that "La vérité historique devrait
être non moins sacrée que la religion."[1] His words are just; the
truth of history should, indeed, be no less sacred than that of
religion. If this is true, and few or none will be found to dispute the
proposition, then the records of historic truth may be regarded as part
of the gospel of humanity. Such they are, in fact; as the truths of
history become disentangled from the maze of sophistry and falsehood in
which the passions and follies of mankind envelop them, they teach us
first of all the lesson of charity and good-will to men.
The light of historic truth has been concentrated by Mr. Wolf on the
part taken by his co-religionists in the development of our great
republic. He shows us that the Jewish people of the New World, like
their ancestors and brethren of the Old, have been unfailing in their
devotion to their country's cause; that they have performed an ample
part in the conquest of our liberties and have fully shared in the
struggles for the preservation of our institutions. He proves beyond
cavil that from an early stage of our history down to the present day,
men of the Hebrew race and faith have been counted in the van of the
country's progress and in the forefront of its defense, and having
proved this fact by historic records and a demonstration of the truth,
his task is done.
That this task was self-imposed but adds to the debt which the American
Jewish community owes to Mr. Wolf for its accomplishment. It was
undertaken in the spirit which has animated him throughout a long
career of public usefulness, a spirit of loyalty to the faith that is
in him, to his fellow-Israelites and to the land of his adoption. It
has been done with all the thoroughness that an earnest purpose could
impart to it, with a comprehensiveness in keeping with that purpose,
and withal, in a spirit free from any shadow of sordidness or motive of
self-interest. Mr. Wolf seeks no pecuniary profit from the unstinted
labors he has given to this cause, not even the return of the sums
expended by him in the tedious and often costly collection of his data.
Whatever of monetary reward may inure to his work has been dedicated by
him to the orphaned wards of the B'nai B'rith, whose asylum in Atlanta
he helped to found, and of which he has long been the directing spirit
and official head.
The work of gathering the material for this book having been
accomplished by Mr. Wolf, the less onerous task of editing and
collating it has been entrusted by him to the present writer. In the
execution of the work thus outlined for me I have been guided by the
spirit with which the author had imbued it, and in my introductory
references to the successive subjects of the volume, I have sought
to briefly elucidate the author's theme. In common with him, I have
to express my regret that the army lists compiled herein remain
incomplete notwithstanding his unsparing efforts to perfect them. On
the other hand, the more general subject, the place of the Jewish
people in the history of mankind, their influence on the current
of affairs, their attitude before the world and towards it, are
demonstrated by a consensus of many-voiced opinion, gathered from
unquestionable sources, in such abundance and of such extent that only
its necessary curtailment afforded difficulty. This varied material has
been subjected to a careful reconsideration, and in eliminating some
portions and including others, I have sought to render the whole in
harmony with the key-note which Mr. Wolf had sounded.
LOUIS EDWARD LEVY.
_Philadelphia, October, 1895._
FOOTNOTE:
[1] Histoire de Jules César, par Napoleon III, Préface.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
DEDICATION v
EDITOR'S PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION 1-11
JEWISH PATRIOTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
(INTRODUCTORY) 12-13
A SKETCH OF HAYM SALOMON 14-26
OTHER JEWISH CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COLONIAL TREASURY 26
INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH PATRIOTISM 27-43
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMIES 44-52
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEORGE WASHINGTON
AND HEBREW CITIZENS, ETC. 53-61
"EXEGI MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS" 62-66
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE
MEXICAN WAR 67-75
UNITED STATES REGULAR ARMY 76-80
UNITED STATES NAVY 81-86
A PAGE FROM THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIVIL
WAR (INTRODUCTORY) 87-90
A REMARKABLE EPISODE 91-97
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR (INTRODUCTORY) 98-105
MEDALS OF HONOR 106-108
FAMILIES OF "BROTHERS-IN-ARMS" 109-111
JEWISH STAFF OFFICERS IN THE UNION ARMY 112-113
JEWISH STAFF OFFICERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 114-115
JEWISH OFFICERS IN THE CONFEDERATE NAVY 116
LISTS OF JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE UNION AND
CONFEDERATE ARMIES DURING THE CIVIL
WAR, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO STATES AND
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED 117-409
SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR, UNCLASSIFIED AS
TO COMMANDS 410-422
ADDENDA TO LISTS OF SOLDIERS 423
STATISTICAL DATA 424
JEWISH PATRIOTISM IN CIVIL LIFE 425-441
JEWS IN LATIN-AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS (INTRODUCTORY) 442
SKETCHES OF JEWISH LOYALTY, BRAVERY AND PATRIOTISM
IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN COLONIES
AND THE WEST INDIES 443-484
JEWS IN THE ARMIES OF EUROPE 485-487
THE JEWISH PEOPLE BEFORE THE WORLD 488-522
RUSSIA'S CRIME AGAINST THE JEWS AND CIVILIZATION
(INTRODUCTORY) 523-527
OFFICIAL REPORT OF AMBASSADOR WHITE TO SECRETARY
OF STATE GRESHAM, WITH NOTES 527-543
THE RUSSIAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN AMERICA, CONSIDERED
IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL
SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION IN ITS HISTORICAL
AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS 544-564
CONCLUSION 565-566
INDEX 567-576
ERRATA xv
ERRATA.
[_Of the various errors inevitably incident to a work of this
character, the following are noted as especially requiring
correction._]
Page 4, line 20, instead of "Charles RAUM," read "Charles BAUM."
Page 26, line 14 from bottom of page, instead of "Isaac MORRIS," read,
"Isaac MOSES."
Page 200, line 2, instead of "WASHINGTON," read "BALTIMORE."
Page 424, under "STATISTICAL," "Other Soldiers (indicated in Addenda),"
should be "13" instead of "12," making the total "8258," instead of
"8257."
Page 428, line 25, instead of "1872" read "1870."
[Illustration: B'NAI B'RITH ORPHANS' HOME, ATLANTA, GA.]
B'NAI B'RITH ORPHANS' HOME, ATLANTA, GA.
The Orphan Home of the Order of B'nai B'rith at Atlanta, Ga., for the
benefit of which Mr. Wolf has devoted the net income of the present
publication was instituted in 1876, under the auspices of District
Grand Lodge No. 5, comprising the States of Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina and Georgia, and the District of Columbia. The
present building was dedicated in 1889. Its benefits are not restricted
to the membership of the Order which maintains it, children of all Jews
residing within the territory named being admitted to its shelter.
There are now sixty children cared for in the institution, and a large
number are waiting to be admitted when the new wing now in course
of erection is completed. This addition is calculated to cost some
$25,000, and when finished will enable this Home to adequately meet the
existing requirements and bring it to a foremost rank with institutions
of this character. It is managed by a Board of Control consisting of
thirteen members, of which Mr. Wolf, to whose efforts the existence of
the Home is primarily due, has been chairman since its foundation. The
administration of the Home is supervised by a local Board of Managers,
of which Hon. Joseph Hirsch is Chairman.
INTRODUCTION.
In December, 1891, there was printed in the _North American Review_ a
letter in reply to certain statements of a contributor to a previous
number of the same magazine regarding the services of American Jewish
citizens as soldiers in the Civil War. Under the caption "Jewish
Soldiers in the Union Army," the writer, after denying the statement
that Generals Rosecrans and Lyon were of Jewish birth, proceeds as
follows: --
"I had served in the field about eighteen months before being
permanently disabled in action, and was quite familiar with several
regiments; was then transferred to two different recruiting
stations, but I cannot remember meeting one Jew in uniform, or
hearing of any Jewish soldier. After the war, for twenty-five
years, I was constantly engaged in traveling, always among old
soldiers, but never found any who remembered serving with Jews. I
learned of no place, where they stood, shoulder to shoulder, except
in General Sherman's department, and he promptly ordered them out
of it for speculating in cotton and carrying information to the
Confederates. If so many Jews fought so bravely for their adopted
country, surely their champion ought to be able to give the names
of the regiments they condescended to accept service in," etc., etc.
A statement of this nature, logically inconclusive and practically
absurd as it is, might well, under ordinary conditions have been left
unnoticed. Under ordinary conditions a reply of any kind to such a
tissue of misstatements, would but have dignified it beyond reason,
and but helped, perhaps, to save it and its author from oblivion. But
the conditions were not ordinary, but most unfortunately, otherwise.
It was at a time when the public mind throughout the civilized world
was wrought to a high pitch of excitement by the flaunting villainy
of the Russian government in the outrageous persecution of its Jewish
subjects, when the wave of anti-Semitism was at floodtide in Germany,
and was flowing high in France, and when bigots like Stoecker, fools
like Ahlwardt, and knaves like Drumont, were finding imitators on
both sides of the Atlantic. Here in our country, public attention was
being centered on the Jewish refugees from Russia, and the Jewish
people throughout the land were massing their strength to cope with
the problems which Muscovite tyranny had set before them. In the midst
of this agitation, the magazine article referred to, slurring the
Jewish people as it did, attracted unusual attention, and being widely
quoted and commented on by the newspaper press, it attained a degree of
publicity out of all proportion to its merits or its authorship.
Under these circumstances I felt myself impelled to reply to the writer
in the _North American Review_, and at once sent to that magazine a
letter embodying a statement of a few indisputable facts bearing on
the subject. This statement the publishers of the magazine declined
to print on the ground that they had received so many articles on the
subject that they could not undertake to discriminate in favor of any
one of them, and that they would therefore publish none. My cursorily
compiled citations were, however, published at the time in the
Washington _Post_, and as germane to my present subject I reprint them
in the main, as follows:--
"Has this much-traveled and keen observer, Mr. Rogers, ever heard
of General Edward S. Salomon, who enlisted as Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 82d Illinois? He became Colonel of the regiment after Colonel
Frederick Hecker's retirement, was made Brigadier-General, was
subsequently appointed by General Grant governor of Washington
Territory, and, at present residing in San Francisco, has been
Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is
recognized as one of the bravest and most gallant officers that
ever sat in saddle. This encomium I have from the lips of General
Grant himself, and it will be cheerfully endorsed by General O.
O. Howard, or by any of the officers yet living who served with
him. In the same regiment, as I have learned from General Salomon,
were more than one hundred private soldiers and subalterns of
Jewish faith. General L. C. Newman, of the city of New York, who
was fatally wounded in the first battle of the Rebellion, died in
the city of Washington, while President Lincoln, who had brought
Newman's commission as Brevet Brigadier-General, was with him
at his bedside. General Leopold Blumenberg, of Baltimore, who,
as Major of his regiment, was severely wounded at the battle of
Antietam, and crippled for life and who was subsequently brevetted
for his meritorious services, was one of the most loyal and brave
of officers. Colonel M. M. Spiegel, of the 120th Ohio, who was
severely wounded before Vicksburg, was entreated to retire from the
army, but continued in the service and was killed in the campaign
of General Banks, in Louisiana. Lieutenant Sachs, of the 32d
Indiana, in command of a company of his regiment at Green River,
in 1862, stood single-handed and alone against a company of Texas
Rangers, and after killing and wounding eight of his assailants,
fell riddled to death. His heroism and bravery had meanwhile given
the command time to rally, and they thereupon dispersed the enemy.
Captain A. Hart, of the 73d Pennsylvania, now of this city, who was
Adjutant of his regiment, was severely wounded in the early part of
the war, and is now a pensioner of the United States. Lieutenant
Henry Franc, of the Kansas Volunteers, living in this city to-day,
did splendid service. Judge. P. J. Joachimson, Lieutenant-Colonel
of the 59th New York; Isidore Pinkson, Henry Pinkson and Moses
Landauer, of the 110th New York; Captain Lyon and Lieutenant
Ababot, of the 5th New York Cavalry; Theodore Wise, of the same
regiment; Herman White, and A. T. Gross, of the 2d Maryland, and
I. Feldstein, now a member of Koltes Post, New York, acquitted
themselves with ample credit in their respective spheres. The 11th
New York was more than half composed of men of Jewish faith. In the
2d Pennsylvania Artillery, serving under Captain R. M. Goundy, who
lives in this city, there were three Jewish soldiers; Lieutenant
Liebschutz, who served throughout the war and was promoted for
gallantry on the field, now living in this city to-day; Leo
Karpeles, who is now a clerk in the Post Office Department, to whom
a special medal was awarded by Congress for bravery and for the
capture with his own hands of rebel flags on the field of battle,
and Simon Stern, who died lately in this city and whose widow
has been granted a pension. George Stern, who died from disease
contracted in the service, also left a widow, now pensioned. Dr. A.
Behrend, of this city, who served in our army with great ability,
not only as a hospital steward, but as an officer in the field,
tells me that in 1863 a general order was issued permitting Jews to
be furloughed over their Holy Days, and that at Fairfax Seminary
he furloughed eleven on that occasion. Dr. Herman Bendall, of
Albany, a prominent citizen of that city, was promoted to the grade
of Lieutenant-Colonel in recognition of his meritorious services
and was subsequently appointed by General Grant superintendent of
Indian affairs of Arizona. Jacob Hirsch, of this city, died from
disease contracted in the service and his orphan children are now
receiving a pension for their father's sacrifice; Captain Cohn, of
New York City, now connected with the Baron de Hirsch Trust Fund,
was as brave an officer as ever did duty. M. L. Peixotto, of the
103 Ohio (a brother of the well-known Benjamin F. Peixotto), died
last year in consequence of wounds received and disease contracted
in the service. Mr. Bruckheimer, now a practicing physician in
this city, Charles Raum, one of our leading merchants, Mr. Hoffa,
Sol Livingston, M. Erdman, M. Augenstein, and S. Goodman, all of
this city, Edward S. Woog, a clerk in the Interior Department;
Morris Cohen, clerk in the War Department; Henry Blondheim, of
Alexandria, Va., were soldiers in the late war. Captain Morris
Lewis, of the 18th New York Cavalry, now living in this city,
served on General Kearney's staff; he receives a special pension,
having been shot through the body and paralyzed in his lower limbs.
August Bruckner was killed at the second battle of Bull Run.
Colonel M. Einstein and Colonel M. Friedman, both of Philadelphia,
commanded regiments; Uriah P. Levy was Commodore of the United
States Navy. Jacob Hayes, of the city of New York, Mr. Phillips,
son of the sexton of the Portuguese congregation of that city, E.
J. Russell, of the 19th Indiana, a resident of this city, and so
severely wounded as to render him almost incapable of work; L.
Myers, of the same regiment, and Julius Steinmeyer, of the 7th
United States Infantry "stood shoulder to shoulder" at the front.
General William Meyer, editor of several New York papers, served
with credit and distinction during the draft riots in the city
of New York, and has in his possession an autograph letter from
President Lincoln thanking him for his eminent services during
those hours of darkness. William Durst, of Philadelphia, is one of
the few survivors of the memorable fight between the Monitor and
the Merrimac; when volunteers were called for he went to his duty
with death staring him in the face, and Admiral Worden himself told
me some months ago that Durst was a man of distinguished bravery,
whose services should be specially recognized by Congress. Major
Joseph G. Rosengarten, of Philadelphia, is a soldier of national
reputation and an author of ability, whose brother Adolph G.
Rosengarten was killed at Stone River while acting as staff
officer. Quartermaster Rosenfield, of the 13th Kansas, not only
discharged the duties of that office with ability, but served also
in the ranks. Lieutenant Rosenberg, of this city, is now dead, and
his widow is pensioned. Colonel H. A. Seligson, who died some two
months ago, led a Vermont regiment during the war, and achieved a
high reputation as a soldier. Captain Frederick Leavy, of the 1st
New York Infantry; Captain Max Conheim, of New York, and now of San
Francisco, and Major H. Koenigsberger, of Cincinnati, were officers
of distinction, and so, too, were David Ezekiel and Lieutenant
Louis Blumenthal, of New Hampshire. Sergeant Elias Leon Hyneman,
of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was one of the heroes of the war,
in which he served from the beginning. In June, 1864, during a
cavalry sortie about Petersburg, while his command was retreating
before the main body of the enemy, he hurried to the relief of a
dismounted and wounded comrade. He lifted him into his own saddle
and enabled him to escape, and started to make his own way on foot.
On his way he met another comrade, barefooted and bleeding; he took
off his own boots and gave them to the sufferer. But he himself was
captured, and after months of agony in Andersonville, he died.
Frederick Kneffler, a resident of Indianapolis, attained the
rank of Major General; he commanded the 79th Indiana, and was
conspicuous for bravery at the battle of Chickamauga. As a further
list of officers and privates in the various commands, I may
yet add the names of Lieutenant Suldman, 44th New York; Captain
Gremitz, 62d Pennsylvania; Corporal Gisner, 142d Pennsylvania;
Lieutenant Evan Davis, 115th Pennsylvania; Sergeant Myers, 62d
Pennsylvania; Captain A. Goldman, 17th Maine; Lieutenant A. A.
Rinehard, 148th Pennsylvania; Lieutenant Nieman, 103d New York;
M. S. Asher, 103d New York; Lieutenant George Perdinger, 39th New
York; Lieutenant Philip Truffinger, 57th New York; Lieutenant
Herman Musschel, 68th New York; Lieutenant Herman Krauth, 103d
New York; Lieutenant Julius Frank, 103d New York; Captain H. P.
Schwerin, 119th New York; Julius Niebergall, Levi Kuehne and Henry
Luterman, all of the New York 3d Artillery, and Lehman Israels,
Lieutenant in the 58th New York.
It must be taken into account that when the War of the Rebellion
broke out the number of Jews in the United States was quite
limited; according to the census taken in 1876 by Mr. William B.
Hackenburg, of Philadelphia, and myself, in behalf of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations, there were then in the United
States, fifteen years after the war commenced, only 250,000 Jews.
It is altogether doubtful whether there were more than 150,000, if
that many, when hostilities commenced. The proportion of Jewish
soldiers is, therefore, only large, but is perhaps larger than that
of any other faith in the United States. I have been told by one of
the Jewish soldiers in this city, one who bears the scars of the
war, that there were at least, as far as he could judge--and he had
experience during the whole conflict--from 6,000 to 8,000 soldiers
of the Jewish faith in the Union Army alone. I am not prepared to
assert this number, but would not be surprised if it were found to
be correct.
The animus of the writer in the _North American Review_ is
indicated by the words, "_Except in General Sherman's Department,
and he promptly ordered them out of it for speculating in cotton
and conveying information to the Confederates_." This statement
is made with the same disregard of facts as are others in the
article referred to, for while a few Jews may have violated the
laws of war by running the blockade or furnishing information to
the enemy, it was no more than others of other races and religious
faiths did under like circumstances, even to a larger degree: and
why the Jews as a class should be held up to the contempt and
scorn of the world in consequence of the want of patriotism of a
few of their number, is to me a profound mystery, and can only be
explained upon the theory that inculcated prejudice is stronger
than the desire for fair play or the regard for justice. No one for
a moment would charge a particular class of Christians with want of
honesty because one or more of their number had violated law. The
War Department records and the Treasury files will furnish ample
evidence of the fact that many of the sins that were committed
by others were heaped upon the shoulders of the Jews. It has
always been an easy thing to strike at the minority and from time
immemorial the prejudice against the Jew has been made a convenient
vehicle for furthering malignant purposes and selfish ends.
Having enjoyed the friendship of President Grant and of General
Sherman (I was for eight years officially connected with the
former, and for a time on intimate social terms with the latter),
I can state that I had repeated conversations with them regarding
"Order No. 11," which was issued over the signature of General
Grant, but of which he, at the time, had absolutely no knowledge.
This fact I proved conclusively during the presidential campaign
of 1888, when political capital was being made against General
Grant among the Jews. By both generals I was assured that there
had been a great deal of misinformation on the subject, and, that
if they could permit themselves to speak of the facts as they were
known to them it would not be the Jews who would be shown to have
been derelict but a large number of Christians, many of whom had
come highly recommended. It was the latter who were abusing the
privilege accorded to them by the authorities at Washington and who
had given both generals a great amount of trouble and annoyance.
I admit that it is unfortunate that the writer of the earlier
article in the _North American Review_, whose statements otherwise
deserve the fullest consideration, should have been led into so
glaring an error as to name Generals Lyon and Rosecrans as Jewish
soldiers. While we would have no objection to classing them among
our American citizens of Jewish faith, we can substantiate our case
very well without doing so, as the cursory list which I have cited
will abundantly show. But while admitting the error of the earlier
writer I cannot allow the statement of the latter one, with its
implication that there was no one of Jewish faith who battled for
the Union, to go unchallenged. The Jewish cemeteries of this city,
and of every other large city in the land, contain the remains of
brave men of Jewish birth who are not forgotten on Decoration Day
by their surviving comrades of Christian faith; and what these men
recognize the American people will not ignore.
The armies of every country afford ample proof of Jewish patriotism
and valor. Even in benighted and tyrannical Russia, where, to a
large extent they are soldiers by compulsion--50,000 or 60,000
of them--their officers have uniformly admitted that in battle
there were no braver men than the Jews. The late Franco-German war
afforded instances of distinguished heroism on the part of Jewish
officers and soldiers in both armies. The Italian army and the
French army to-day contain a large contingent of Jewish officers
and privates who are not only respected, but honored by their
compatriots. In the Turkish army some of the leading officers are
of Jewish faith. Patriotism, however, is not confined to the field
of battle; in private life, from time immemorial, acts have been
performed of greater service, possibly, than any in the field,
showing greater powers of endurance and evincing higher virtues
than were ever recorded in the annals of war. During our late
conflict many who remained at home made sacrifices of the most
heroic character, and did their duty cheerfully and with alacrity,
and I know of none who did their part more fully than the citizens
of the United States of Jewish faith. In fact, the history of
the Jewish people is one long tragedy of personal sacrifice and
heroism. But as I wish to trespass no longer on the columns
of your valuable paper, I beg leave to close with this simple
statement; that it seems to me high time for Americans of all
faiths to frown down all attempts that have for their object the
lowering and humiliation of any class of our citizens."
SIMON WOLF.
Finding that my letter had been copied extensively, not only by the
Jewish press, but by leading newspapers in the country, and favorably
commented on generally, I determined to give to the world, as complete
as I might find possible, a list of American citizens of Jewish faith
who had "stood shoulder to shoulder" on the field of battle, and to add
thereto the record of some typical instances of exceptional energy and
public spirit in the civil walks of life.
What I had anticipated and supposed would be an easy task, requiring
probably no more than six months at the utmost, has taken more than
four years of continuous work, notwithstanding the assistance I
received from many quarters, and I am even now compelled to give this
work to the public in an inadequate form, with the feeling that it is
incomplete and that much more should have been made of it.
The difficulties in the way of completing fully and accurately such
a compilation as I have here attempted will scarcely be realized by
those who have not undertaken a similar task. The work was begun
nearly thirty years after the close of the war, when many of those
whose names were to be gathered were dead, and many others dispersed
throughout our vast domain and beyond our borders. In response to three
successive calls made through the leading newspapers of the country, I
received, indeed, a large number of replies, but after all, the great
majority even of the survivors failed to respond, and of the data that
reached me much could not be classified. Nearly a thousand names are
accordingly placed in the unclassified list.
By far the majority of the names herein included were furnished by
the soldiers themselves or their relatives, but a large number of
them were sent to me by army comrades of the men referred to. Some
of these may be incorrectly quoted both as to their names and the
commands with which they were connected, but these errors may scarcely
be considered as affecting the general result, so far at least as
numbers are concerned. It was naturally impossible to verify all the
notices sent to me, and this compilation must therefore, in the very
nature of the case, be more or less imperfect and incomplete, but I
may say without hesitation that the work is free from all errors which
could be eliminated through a patient and cautious scrutiny. Several
hundred names of soldiers from Indiana alone were finally excluded from
my present lists, notwithstanding their pronounced Jewish character,
such as Marks, Abrahams, Isaacs and others of a similar strain, whose
owners were ascertained by my correspondents to be non-Jews, while on
the other hand many soldiers bearing names of decidedly non-Jewish
derivation were authenticated as Jews. If many whose names should be
included fail to see them on this "roll of honor" the fault is at all
events not mine, and the earnest effort which I have given to this
work, wholly a "labor of love" on my part, leaves me free from the
necessity of offering apology for whatever errors of omission or of
commission may remain in it. The public records could not be utilized,
because our army lists, unlike those of foreign powers, make no
registry of the religious faith of the enrolled soldiers. I should, in
this connection, urge upon my readers to aid me with such corrections
of these army lists as they may be able to furnish, with the view to
the record being perfected as far as may be, in a future edition of
this book.
Unsatisfactory and at times discouraging as has been my task and
its outcome, I have yet had at times the pleasure of obtaining and
recording data of a most gratifying character. One of the most pleasing
results of my labors is the fact that I am able to present a list of
fourteen Jewish families that contributed to the Union and Confederate
armies no less than fifty-one soldiers. Three, four, five brothers; a
father and three sons, a father and four sons, volunteers in a deadly
strife, leaving their homes and kindred, breaking their family ties to
face privation, disease, wounds and death, sacrificing all to fight
with their compatriots for the cause which they deemed right.
My primary purpose has been to show that the Jewish people throughout
the land not only took a share in the struggle which has ended so
beneficently as to have brought prosperity to both antagonists and
dispelled the cause of discord, but that they took their full share,
and it is now conclusively shown that the enlistment of Jewish
soldiers, north and south, reached proportions considerably in excess
of their ratio to the general population. This fact had become apparent
before my present work had been systematically begun, as I indicated
in my letter to the Washington _Post_, quoted above, but the lists
obtained by me, incomplete as they must inevitably be, make up a number
that leaves no reasonable doubt on this subject. This fact, in view
of statements minimizing the numbers of Jewish soldiers of the late
war, or denying the existence of any at all, cannot be too strongly
emphasized. To complete, however, my ultimate purpose of presenting
a consideration of the Jew as citizen and philanthropist as well as
patriot and soldier, I have herein collated a symposium of expressions
on this comprehensive subject from sources at once authoritative and
unbiased. I have included in this collection of views and reviews,
the carefully considered statements of many of the foremost men of
modern times, statesmen and soldiers, philosophers, divines, writers
and other leaders of public opinion, as widely divergent in locality
as they are unanimous in sentiment. Among these I have included only
such as are entirely non-Jewish in their origin, men whose thoughts are
the expressions of well-disciplined minds, and whose opinions are the
deliverances of an impartial judgment.
I gladly record my obligations to the Grand Army of the Republic for
the aid afforded me in obtaining information through the machinery
of its organization, and to General J. B. Gordon, of the Confederate
Memorial Association, for a like co-operation. To the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, to the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and
to the Jewish Publication Society of America, I am indebted for
contributions to the cost of publication and for other aid in the
prosecution of my work.
I owe my thanks to Captain Eugene H. Levy, Mr. George Alexander Kohut
and Mr. Max J. Kohler, of New York, to Messrs. Lewis Abraham and L.
Lichtenstein, of Washington, for their assistance, and especially
to Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, of the War Department, for the loan of
Records. To Mr. Henry S. Morais' recent historical work on "The
Jews of Philadelphia," I am much indebted for valuable data, and
other important materials have been gleaned from Mr. Isaac Markens'
compendious work on "The Hebrews in America." To the Jewish press I owe
acknowledgement for many welcome items of information and for repeated
expressions of encouragement.
Finally, among my obligations to numerous correspondents in different
parts of the country are those which I owe to many soldiers of
Christian faith, some of them officers of distinguished rank, who
afforded me much valuable information and who added, in almost every
case, some warm expression of their sympathy and good-will.
[Illustration: Signature of Simon Wolf]
_Washington, D. C., June, 1895._
JEWISH PATRIOTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
The keen and responsive sense of duty with which, through Torah and
Talmud, the Jewish character is so deeply imbued, has never failed to
become manifest when occasion has called it forth. Jews have never
been wanting in patriotism and though a peace-loving people, (the
very mission of Israel being peace, and good-will towards neighbors a
cardinal teaching of Judaism) they have always espoused, eagerly and
earnestly, the cause of their countrymen. The heroism and self-devotion
which marks the course of Jewish history from the earliest Biblical
records, emblazoning the era of the Maccabees, signalizing the Roman
period and illuminating the Dark Ages, has found many a worthy example
in these modern days. We have here to deal with the records of but
one country, yet these records are replete with instances of bravery
and undaunted courage, of earnest devotion and of faithful service
performed by men of Israel in behalf of this land of their adoption.
These records begin at a time before the Revolutionary epoch, when the
Jewish settlers in America were very few indeed. At the date of the
first census, in 1790, just after the close of the Revolution, when the
total population of the country was figured at almost 4,000,000, the
number of Jewish inhabitants could scarcely be estimated at 3,000, or
only one to 1,330 of the population.[2]
The dearth of accessible records of a detailed character rendered it
practically impossible to present more than a very imperfect list
of the Jewish participants in the Revolutionary struggle. However,
sufficient data are at hand to prove conclusively that the Jewish
colonists of that period, comparatively recent settlers and few in
number as they were, furnished, as usual in all struggles for liberty
and freedom, more than their proportion of supporters to the colonial
cause. They not only risked their lives in the war for independence,
but aided materially with their money to equip and maintain the armies
of the Revolution. That they took their part in the earliest stages of
resistance to the encroachments of the mother country is proved by the
signatures to the Non-Importation Resolutions of 1765. Nine Jews were
among the signers of these resolutions, the adoption of which was the
first organized movement in the agitation which eventually led to the
independence of the colonies. The original document is still preserved
in Carpenter's Hall, in Philadelphia, and following are the names of
the Jews on that early roll of patriots:
Benjamin Levy, Samson Levy, Joseph Jacobs, Hyman Levy, Jr., David
Franks, Mathias Bush, Michael Gratz, Barnard Gratz, Moses Mordecai.
With these as worthy precursors of the Jewish patriots of the
Revolution we may proceed to note the list of Jews whose names have
come to us from the Revolutionary period, through various published
sources, as men of special distinction among their fellows. One of the
most notable of these was Haym Salomon, a man who, while not the only
Jewish patriot that lavished his ample fortune in behalf of liberty
and independence, yet stands out as so unique a figure in the history
of the American Revolution that the record of his part in the making
of that history may well take precedence. Fragmentary presentations
of this subject have been made in public documents and in historic
essays at various times since the submission by Salomon himself of his
memorial to the Continental Congress in August, 1778.[3] However, as
embracing a succinct statement and detailed review of the whole matter
to the present time, the following paper from the "Publications of the
American Jewish Historical Society" (No. 2, 1894) may be quoted in
full:--
FOOTNOTES:
[2] According to a careful estimate by Mr. Isaac Harby, in 1826, there
were then, nearly forty years after the Revolution, not over 6,000 Jews
in the United States.
[3] See Markens, "The Hebrews in America" (New York, 1888), and Morais,
"Jews of Philadelphia" (Philadelphia, 1894).
A SKETCH OF HAYM SALOMON.
FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MS. IN THE PAPERS OF JARED SPARKS.
[Contributed by HERBERT B. ADAMS, PH. D., Professor in the Johns
Hopkins University. With Notes by J. H. HOLLANDER.]
In the fall of 1841, Jared Sparks, while professor of history in
Harvard College, was delivering a course of lyceum lectures in New
York City upon the American Revolution. His remarks upon the services
of certain public men of the period excited deep interest in the mind
of a Jewish hearer, Mr. Haym M. Salomon, who wrote to and afterwards
called upon Mr. Sparks in reference to the patriotic activity of Haym
Salomon, a contemporary and associate of Robert Morris, James Madison,
Edmund Randolph and other distinguished publicists of the Revolutionary
period. At the request of Mr. Sparks, Mr. Salomon prepared certain
memoranda of the eminent services of his father, Haym Salomon, and this
manuscript passed into the possession of Mr. Sparks.
The interview and the information thus obtained seem to have made a
profound impression upon Mr. Sparks. He mentioned something of the
above matter to Mr. Joshua I. Cohen, of Baltimore, and almost a quarter
of a century after the original interview, under date of October 29,
1865, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Sparks as follows:
"You may probably recollect a conversation I had with you many years
ago during a visit to Cambridge, in which I mentioned that Judge Noah,
of New York, was then engaged in gathering together the facts and
memorials of the part which our people, the Israelites, took in our
Revolutionary struggle, and you kindly offered to him through me the
use of your biographical series for any memoirs he might prepare on
the subject. The death of Judge Noah, not long after, put an end to
the project. I mentioned to you a military company that was formed
in Charleston, S. C., composed almost exclusively of Israelites, of
which my uncle was a member, and which behaved well during the war.
Major Frank, one of Arnold's aids, was spoken of, and also Haym Salomon
and others. In connection with Mr. Salomon you expressed yourself
very fully, and, in substance (if I recollect correctly), that his
association with Robert Morris was very close and intimate, and that
a great part of the success that Mr. Morris attained in his financial
schemes was due to the skill and ability of Haym Salomon. I do not
pretend to quote your language, but only the idea. The matter was
brought up to my mind recently by the marriage of a great-grandson
of Mr. Salomon to a niece of mine, one of the young ladies of our
household."[4]
The original sketch of Haym Salomon thus prepared by his son was found
in a somewhat mutilated condition by Professor Herbert B. Adams, of
the Johns Hopkins University, among the Sparks Papers, which had been
entrusted to his care during the preparation of "The Life and Writings
of Jared Sparks," published in 1893 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The
manuscript was stitched to other papers and had been apparently cut
down somewhat in order to make it more uniform in size with the smaller
sheets. This fact will explain certain tantalizing, but apparently
brief omissions in the text. The appended copy of the manuscript is
furnished by Professor Adams with the full consent of the Sparks family.
* * * * *
Haym Salomon, who died in Philadelphia, then the metropolis of the
United States, January, 1785, was the fellow-countryman and intimate
associate of the Polish Generals Pulaski and Kosciuszko, and was first
publicly known in 1778, when he was taken by the British General Sir
H. Clinton in New York on charges that he had received orders from
General Washington to burn their fleets and destroy their store-houses,
which he had attempted to execute to their great injury and damage. He
was accordingly imprisoned, treated inhumanly, and ordered to suffer
military death. From the sacrifice of his life, with which he was
threatened in consequence of the sentence, he escaped by means of a
considerable bribe in gold. This is corroborated from his letter to
his brother-in-law, Major Franks, dated soon after in Philadelphia, in
which his intimacy is stated with the brave General McDougall, who then
commanded the American army in the neighborhood of New York, and with
whom it appears he must have been in co-operation in order to drive ...
away from the comfortable quarters, which the maritime and military
positions of that city so happily promised them after its abandonment
by the friends of the Revolution.[5]
A few days after his escape from the merciless enemy he safely arrived
in Philadelphia, where he was welcomed and esteemed as one devoted to
the principle ... [_MS. cut off._]
We then find him meriting the well-placed confidence and affection of
the patriots who had been distinguished in the Revolutionary Congress
of 1776; also the great men who were famous in those succeeding
sessions, 1780, '81, '82, '83 and '84, as furnished us by such
circumstantial testimony as yet remains of that immortal body of
devoted patriots.
It is seen as soon as the generous monarch of France agreed to furnish
the expiring government of that day with means to reanimate their
exertions in the glorious cause. It was he who was charged with
the negotiation of the entire amount of those munificent grants of
pecuniary supplies from the government of France and Holland.[6]
In 1783-4, after the satisfactory close of these truly confidential
services, he is found to have made considerable advances, moneys,
loans, &c., to Robert Morris, of the Congress of the Declaration of
'76. To General Miflin, to General St. Clair, to General Steuben, to
Colonel Shee, to Colonel Morgan, Major McPherson, Major Franks, and
many other officers such sums as they required. And as it regarded the
deputies to the Continental Congress, [_to_] the amiable Judge Wilson
(another member of the session of '76) considerable loans.[7]
To the immortal delegation from Virginia, namely, Arthur Lee, Theodore
Bland, Joseph Jones, John F. Mercer and Edmund Randolph, liberal
supplies of timely and pecuniary aid, and we find it declared by one
of the most accomplished, most learned and patriotic members of the
succeeding sessions of the Revolutionary legislature, James Madison,
that when by the ... [_MS. cut off_] pecuniary resources of the members
of Congress, both public and private, were cut off, recourse was had
to Mr. Salomon for means to answer their current expenses, and he was
always found extending his friendly hand.[8]
The exalted and surviving delegate of the Revolutionary Congress above
alluded to, who has since that period been promoted for two successive
terms to the chief magistracy of these States, in his letter on the
subject of the character of Mr. Haym Salomon, testifies fully as to
the unquestionable uprightness of his transactions, as well as the
disinterestedness of his "friendship," and also his "intelligence,"
and which no doubt from his confidential intercourse with the foreign
ambassadors made his communications serviceable to the public
safety.[9] That conferences were sought with him by the great men of
the time is proved from the existence of a note in the handwriting
of another member of the Congress of Declaration, the incorruptible
President Reed.
His services to the cause of his country were not confined to
aiding the native agents of our own government, but he was the most
confidential friend and timely adviser to the agents, consuls, and
ambassadors representing the interests of the kings of those countries
then in our alliance, as it appears from the amount of specie granted
for the service of the army and hospital of Rochambaud, and large sums
appear to have been received from him by Chevalier De La Luzerne,
Marbois, consul-general, De La Forest, John ... [_MS, cut off_],
recollected by the elders of the nation as the active agents of the
good French king.[10]
As to the minister of the King of Spain, then the richest of the
European monarchs. The amount granted him was expressly to relieve the
wants, conveniences and necessities of this ambassador, whose king
was then countenancing the Revolution in this country, but with whose
European dominions all intercourse was stopped, and in regard to the
monies so furnished, whether Mr. S. was ever repaid by Spain is a
matter of as much uncertainty as that regarding the considerable sums
advanced to other Revolutionary agents.[11]
It appears that the death of Mr. S. after a short and severe illness
was quite as unexpected as calamitous to his family, leaving no will
nor relatives in this country competent to take charge of his estate,
at this difficult period of the unsettled state of the jurisprudence
of the country, being four years prior to the formation of the
Constitution of the United States.
A letter from him yet exists, dated in New York a few days previous
to his return and death, directed to the agent of his house in
Philadelphia, in which he speaks of the full competency of his fortune
and his intention of retiring from business. An additional inducement
no doubt was owing to the impaired state of his health from the great
exertions he had made to promote the views of the Revolution, and
which letter further declares that he had many claims uncollected
due him,[12] and spoke of the quantities of public securities and
government papers which ... [_MS. cut off_]. Of this latter, on
examination of a list deposited in the Probate Office, it appears
there was upwards of $300,000, more than $160,000 of which were of
certificates of the Loan Office of the Treasury and the army.[13]
At his decease the management of his estate passed into the hands of
strangers, all of whom not very long after became either bankrupts or
died, as well as Mr. Macrea,[14] his chief clerk, who had committed
suicide about the same period. Consequently the books and papers have
nearly been all lost, and the obscurity into which these matters are
thrown is increased in consequence of the destruction by the British of
many of the public archives of that period, during the invasion of the
city of Washington by their army during the last war.[15] And such were
the effects of those unfortunate circumstances to the heirs that when
the youngest son became of age nothing was obtained from the personal
estate of this munificent and patriotic individual in Philadelphia.
And no other inheritance now survives to the offspring except the
expectation of the grateful remembrance of a just and generous republic.
It ought not to be forgotten, that although he endorsed a great portion
of those bills of exchange for the amount of the loans and subsidies
our government obtained in Europe, of which he negotiated the entire
sums, and the execution of which duty occupied a great portion of his
valuable time from '81 to '83, still there was only charged scarcely
a fractional percentage to the United States, although individuals
were willing to pay him ... [_MS. cut off_] for his other negotiations
and guarantee. And it is known that he never caused the loss to the
government of one cent of those many millions of his negotiations,
either by his own mismanagement or from the credit he gave to others on
the sales he made of those immense sums of foreign drafts on account of
the United States.[16]
We find that immediately after the peace of '83, when foreign commerce
could securely float again on the ocean, that he resumed his business
as a merchant for the few remaining months of his life, trading to
foreign countries, which may be collected from the few original letters
(that are preserved) bearing date [_of_] London, Holland and Spain, and
from the return of the large ship Sally from Spain to his consignment
a few weeks succeeding his death, on which cargo and hull he was
interested in the sum of 40,000 florins; his estate on the expedition
sustained almost total loss, owing to the failures and disasters among
merchants of those days, to whom the property had been consigned and by
whose advice it had been undertaken.
He was most friendly in aiding those other commercial citizens and
merchants who recommenced trading after the war had closed. One
remarkable instance [_that_] may be noted among others was the case
of Mr. Willing's house, the head of which was the president of the
National Bank, and whose active partner was the Superintendent of
Finance. The firm traded under the name of Willing, Morris & Swanick.
To them he made a loan of his name to obtain 40,000 dollars in specie
in one amount from the bank. A second loan of his name in addition
of 24,000 specie dollars also, a few months preceding his death, for
both of which considerable accommodations of credit at this eventful
period of our commercial history he never changed them one cent of
consideration.[17]
[Copy of an authentic certificate from the Register's Office in
Philadelphia shewing the amount of public securities[18] and
Revolutionary papers left by the deceased Haym Salomon at his death and
from which personal estate mentioned in said certificate not a cent was
ever received by any of his heirs.]
"58 Loan Office Certificates $110,233.65.
19 Treasury " 18,259.50.
2 Virginia State " 8,166.48.
70 Commissioners " 17,870.37.
Continental Liquidated 199,214.45.
------------
$353,744.45.
"Seal
"I certify that the above writing is a true extract from the original
inventory and appraisement of the personal estate of Haym Salomon
deceased filed in the register's office Philadelphia on the 15th
February, 1785.
(_Signed_)
JOHN GEYER, _Register_.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 28th May, A. D. 1828."
[EXTRACT FROM A CERTIFICATE.]
The father of Mr. Haym M. Salomon was the deceased Haym Salomon,
Esq., who died in Philadelphia, January 6, 1785, and who is found to
have exhibited the most ardent personal devotion to the cause of the
Revolution.
On investigating such of the memoranda and papers regarding his civil
services in that era of our history which have accidentally been
preserved and now submitted, I find the following facts.
By an affidavit made in New York, January, 1778, before Alderman
Matthews, certified on its back by William Claygen, military secretary
to Major-General Horatio Gates, dated at the encampment White Plains,
August 15, 1778, it appears that so early as the year 1775, Mr. S. was
in controversy with the enemies of the projected Revolution.
New York, May 9, 1828.
(_Signed_)
WM. H. BELL.
The affidavit further states that it had been alleged against him
in New York that he was charged by General Washington to execute an
enterprise as hazardous to the safety of his person and life as it was
most important to the interests of the Revolutionary army. Supposed to
be the enterprise for which he was condemned to death by the British
General Clinton, as mentioned in the first part of this memorandum.
The two infant sons which Mr. Salomon (at the age of 45) left at his
death were Ezekiel and Haym. Ezekiel was he (the eldest) who in 1807,
in charge of a large amount of American property, was (with many other
American citizens whose cargoes as well as his own was sequestered
at Leghorn by the French) placed in much perplexity, but through
the spirited remonstrance which he made to the Tuscan and French
Governments, succeeded in procuring its release. He subsequently was
charged with the government of the U. S. Branch Bank at New Orleans,
and while in the successful application of the duties of his office
died in 1821.
Haym M., the youngest son and sole survivor of the male part of the
family, has been engaged in commercial pursuits for many years past,
for particulars of which see letter from Hon. Johnson, Esq., who for
eight years was the representative in Congress from New York, the
Empire City of the United States, and now[19] one of the chief officers
in the Custom House of that city.[20]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Little of the mass of original material at one time in existence
relative to the life and activity of Haym Salomon can now be located.
Mr. William Salomon, of New York, a great-grandson of Haym Salomon,
writes in response to a recent inquiry as follows: "I am under the
impression that all the papers bearing on the services of Haym Salomon
in the cause of the Revolution which were not lost when he died
intestate (and a few months before Haym M. Salomon was born) came
into Haym M. Salomon's possession, but unfortunately his descendants
have been deprived of that valued inheritance by reason of their
disappearance while in the custody of the Government. All I ever
discovered among my father's papers was a letter from either President
Tyler or Polk (I cannot remember positively which, and the letter is
not now within easy reach) stating that papers my grandfather, Haym M.
Salomon, desired to have returned could not be found in the Department
where they had been placed."
Some further details of the strange negligence to which this
unfortunate loss is due may be found in the Senate Committee Report to
the 31st Congress on the claim of H. M. Salomon. The timely services
rendered by Haym Salomon to James Madison during the sessions of the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia are specifically indicated in
the published letters of Madison; see Gilpin, Madison Papers, Vol. I.,
pp. 163, 178-9. Mr. Herbert Friedenwald, of Philadelphia, has recently
found among the records of the Continental Congress an interesting
Memorial of Haym Salomon, submitted to the Congress in August, 1778;
see Publications of American Jewish Historical Society, I., 87. The
main sources of information relative to the life of Haym Salomon are
thus the secondary Congressional Committee Reports upon the claims
of his descendants for indemnity for money advanced to the United
States Government during the Revolution. These, in the order of their
presentation, are as follows:[21]
1. Report on Claim of Haym M. Salomon. Rep. F. A. Tallmadge. April 26,
1848. 3 pp. House Reports, No. 504, 30th Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. III.
2. Report on Claim of H. M. Salomon. Senator J. D. Bright. July 28,
1848. 3 pp. Senate Reports, No. 219, 30th Cong., 1st Sess.
3. Report on Claim of H. M. Salomon. Senator I. P. Walker. August 9,
1850. 7 pp. Senate Reports, No. 177, 31st Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. I.
4. Report on Claim of Haym M. Salomon. Senator Charles Durkee. March 9,
1860. 10 pp. Senate Reports, No. 127, 36th Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. I.
5. Report on Claim of Haym M. Salomon. Senator M. S. Wilkinson. July 2,
1862. 5 pp. Senate Reports, No. 65, 37th Cong., 2d Sess.
6. Report on Petition of Haym M. Salomon. June 24, 1864. 4 pp. Senate
Reports, No. 93, 30th Cong., 1st Sess.
The second, third, fifth and sixth of the above reports have been
reprinted in pamphlet form, presumably for private circulation. During
the first session of the 29th Congress, the Senate Committee of Claims
unanimously agreed upon a report similar to that adopted by the
House Committee of the 30th Congress, but too late for presentation.
Another report was drawn up during the second session of the same
Congress, placed on file, but never adopted. It was largely embodied
in the Senate Report to the 31st Congress; see Senate Report to the
31st Congress. The last sentence of the Report to the 38th Congress:
"except the report of this committee made at the last session," and
several paragraphs inserted in the Report to the 37th Congress as
statements of "the committee of the last Congress," indicate the
presentation of additional reports. No positive evidence of their
existence has, however, been found. At the second session of the 52d
Congress (February 24, 1893), a bill was presented to the House,
ordering that a gold medal be struck off in recognition of services
rendered by Haym Salomon during the Revolutionary War, in consideration
of which the Salomon heirs waived their claims upon the United States
for indemnity. The measure was reported favorably by the House
Committee on the Library, but too late for consideration. The Report
(No. 2556; to accompany H. R. 7896) summarizes the efforts made in
previous Congresses, and reprints in full the Senate Report to the 37th
Congress.
OTHER JEWISH CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COLONIAL TREASURY.
The monetary contribution by Haym Salomon to the successful issue
of the Revolutionary struggle was doubtless the largest made by any
individual, but while it is the most signal instance of its kind, it
does not stand alone. Haym Salomon was not the only Jew who showed his
earnestness in behalf of freedom by a jeopardy or sacrifice of fortune.
Among the signers of the Bills of Credit for the Continental Congress
in 1776 were Benjamin Levy, of Philadelphia and Benjamin Jacobs, of
New York; and Samuel Lyon, of the same city, was among the signers of
similar bills in 1779. Isaac Morris, also of Philadelphia, and who,
after the Revolutionary War, was one of the incorporators of the Bank
of New York, contributed three thousand pounds sterling (£3000) to
the colonial treasury, and still another Philadelphian, Hyman Levy,
repeatedly advanced considerable sums for the support of the army in
the field. A yet more notable instance of patriotic devotion was that
of Manuel Mordecai Noah, of South Carolina, who not only served in
the army as officer on Washington's staff, and likewise with General
Marion, but gave of his fortune twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) to
further the cause in which he was enlisted. Many minor cases of a
similar order could be cited, but only the more important instances,
such as are of public record, have here been adduced.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] See Adams, Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, Vol. II., p. 564.
From the general tenor of the letter, it seems probable that Mr.
Sparks, during his extensive researches into the historical records,
public and private, of the United States, had encountered other
evidence of the services of Haym Salomon. This inference is partially
corroborated by a passage in a letter written by Mr. Sparks from
Cambridge on May 7, 1845, to Mr. Haym M. Salomon, apparently in
connection with the first memorial to Congress: "Among the numerous
papers that have passed under my eye I have seen evidences of his
[_Haym Salomon's_] transactions, which convince me that he rendered
important services to the United States in their pecuniary affairs."
See Report on Claim of H. M. Salomon; Senate Reports, No. 177, 31st
Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. I. It is not, however, impossible that only the
present manuscript may be here referred to.
[5] It is probable that Haym Salomon's first encounter with the British
Government took place several years before 1778. The Senate Report to
the 31st Congress (_supra_) states that: "As early as 1775 he became
obnoxious to the British Government, and was imprisoned in New York,
sharing the privations and horrors of the sufferers confined in a
loathsome prison called the Provost." Essentially the same fact is
repeated in later Reports, and is specifically presented in certified
form in a later part of the present paper.
The Memorial of Haym Salomon to the Continental Congress (see
Bibliographical Note, _infra_) is of such immediate interest in
connection with the circumstances of his escape from New York as to
permit partial citation. It sets forth: "That your Memorialist was
some time before the Entry of the British Troops at the said City of
New York and soon after taken up as a Spy and by General Robertson
committed to the Provost. That by the Interposition of Lieut-General
Heister (who wanted him on account of his knowledge in the French,
Polish, Russian, Italian &c. Languages) he was given over to the
Hessian Commander who appointed him in the Commissary Way as purveyor
chiefly for the Officers. That being at New York he has been of great
Service to the French and American prisoners and has assisted them with
Money and helped them off to make their Escape. That this and his close
connexions with such of the Hessian Officers as were inclined to resign
and with Monsieur Samuel Demezes has rendered him at last so obnoxious
to the British Head Quarters that he was already pursued by the Guards
and on Tuesday the 11th inst. he made his happy Escape from thence."
The Memorial bears date of August 25, 1778, thus indicating the precise
time of Salomon's departure from New York as August 11, 1778.
[6] For details see Report to 31st Congress. The exact location of this
and other Congressional Reports is given in the Bibliographical Note
appended to the paper.
[7] This is corroborated by a letter from the eminent jurist, Henry
Wheaton, to Haym M. Salomon. Among "the patriots of the Revolution who
were compelled to sacrifice their private pursuits to the public,"
Mr. Wheaton mentions Judge Wilson, "who must have retired from public
service if he had not been sustained by the timely aid of your father,
administered with equal generosity and delicacy." See Report to 31st
Congress.
[8] Under date of August 27, 1782, Mr. Madison wrote from Philadelphia
to Edmund Randolph: "I cannot in any way make you more sensible of
the importance of your kind attention to pecuniary remittances for me
than by informing you that I have for some time been a pensioner on
the favor of Haym Salomon, a Jew Broker." See Gilpin, Madison Papers,
I., 163. During the following month Mr. Madison's position seems to
have grown more aggravated, for, on September 24, he declared: "I
am relapsing fast into distress. The case of my brethren is equally
alarming." _Ibid_, p. 176. Assistance in sufficient amount was still
not forthcoming, and a week later, September 30, 1782, he acknowledged
to Mr. Randolph the local source of his benefactions as follows: "I
am almost ashamed to acknowledge my wants so incessantly to you, but
they begin to be so urgent that it is impossible to suppress them. The
kindness of our little friend in Front street, near the coffee-house,
is a fund that will preserve me from extremities, but I never resort
to it without great mortification, as he obstinately rejects all
recompense. The price of money is so usurious that he thinks it ought
to be extorted from none but those who aim at profitable speculations.
To a necessitous delegate, he gratuitously spares a supply out of his
private stock." _Ibid_, pp. 178-179.
There seems little doubt but that the "little friend in Front
street" is meant to indicate Haym Salomon. This view is taken by the
Congressional committees and by Madison's biographer; see Gay, Life
of James Madison, p. 25. The fact that the first Philadelphia City
Directory was issued in 1785, and that Haym Salomon died on January 6
of that year (_vide infra_), renders direct verification impracticable.
Search among the Philadelphia newspapers of the period would probably
determine the point once for all.
[9] The writer of the MS. is probably quoting from memory from a letter
written by Mr. Madison from Montpelier, on February 6, 1830, to Mr.
Haym M. Salomon, in connection with claims upon Congress for indemnity.
The Senate Report to the 31st Congress preserves the following
paragraph of this letter: "The transactions shown by the papers you
enclosed were the means of effectuating remittances for the support of
the delegates [_to Congress_], and the agency of your father therein
was solicited, on account of the respectability and confidence he
enjoyed among those best acquainted with him."
The Report to the 37th Congress mentions among the various letters
received by Haym M. Salomon relative to the justice of his claim, one
from James Madison, in 1827, who, among other things, stated: "The
transactions shown by the papers you enclose were for the support of
the delegates to Congress, and the agency of your father therein was
solicited on account of the respect and confidence he enjoyed among
those best acquainted with him,' etc., and concludes with the wish that
the memorialist might be properly indemnified."
The resemblance between the two paragraphs is so striking as to make it
probable, despite the discrepancy in dates, that the same communication
is referred to.
[10] The Report to the 31st Congress states: "On the accession of the
Count de la Luzerne to the embassy from France, Mr. Salomon was made
the banker of that government.... He was also appointed by Monsieur
Roquebrune, treasurer of the forces of France in America, to the office
of their paymaster-general, which he executed free of charge."
[11] Details of the assistance so rendered are given in the Report
to the 31st Congress. Mr. Salomon, it is said, "maintained from his
own private purse Don Francesco Rendon, the secret ambassador of that
monarch for nearly two years, or up to the death of Mr. S., during
which Rendon's supplies were cut off." A striking passage is quoted
in the same Report from a letter said to have been written in 1783 by
Rendon to the Governor-General of Cuba, Don José Marie de Navarra: "Mr.
Salomon has advanced the money for the service of his most Catholic
Majesty and I am indebted to his friendship in this particular, for the
support of my character as his most Catholic Majesty's agent here, with
any degree of credit and reputation; and without it, I would not have
been able to render that protection and assistance to his Majesty's
subjects which his Majesty enjoins and my duty requires." The statement
is also made that: "Moneys thus advanced to the amount of about 10,000
Spanish dollars remained unpaid, when Mr. Salomon died shortly after."
[12] Mr. Henry S. Morais, in his history of "The Jews of Philadelphia,"
notes as follows: (p. 24.) "The amount has been variously given at as
much as $600,000 and more. Hon. Simon Wolf, of Washington, D. C., in
February, 1892, presented a complete and elaborate statement of this
question, based upon official documents, in an article (entitled, "Are
Republics Ungrateful?") published in the _Reform Advocate_, of Chicago."
In another note on the same subject Mr. Morais states: "Mr. Salomon's
loan and its accruing interest would now (1893) amount to over
$3,000,000." Haym M. Salomon, a son of the philanthropist, and who
kept a store on Front street, vainly endeavored to obtain payment of
his just claim, notwithstanding that it was favorably reported to the
U. S. Senate in 1850. In this report it was said: "Haym Salomon gave
great assistance to the government by loans of money and advancing
liberally of his means to sustain the men engaged in the struggle
for independence at a time when the sinews of war were essential to
success."
[13] For a summary of the account see the certificate appended,
_infra_. Some few further details of the inventory are given in the
Committee Report to the 30th Congress.
[14] "Mr. McCrea," in the Report to the 31st Congress.
[15] Mr. Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury of the United States
from 1777 to 1828, wrote from Washington in 1827, to Mr. H. M. Salomon:
"I have cast back to those periods when your honored father was agent
to Office of Finance; but the inroads of the British army in 1814
deprived us of every record in relation to the vouchers of the period
to which I refer." See for details, Report to 31st Congress; also
Bibliographical Note.
[16] For details, see Report to 31st Congress.
[17] Hon. Simon Wolf, of Washington, D. C., in an article in _The
Reform Advocate_ of Chicago (see Bibliographical Note), calls attention
to the fact that Professor Sumner--the most recent biographer of
Robert Morris--in his "The Financier and the Finances of the American
Revolution," makes no mention of the services of Haym Salomon. Mr. Wolf
adds: "When I called Mr. Sumner's attention to it he answered in a
letter which I received to-day, that, he had supposed that Mr. Salomon
had been paid long since, and was surprised at the statement which I
made."
[18] Not a penny of the large sums represented by these securities
has ever been repaid to the heirs of the philanthropist and patriot
who so generously aided the Revolutionary cause, and the fact is but
another instance of the ingratitude of republics. The remissness of the
people's representatives in the adjustment of private claims has been
but too often flagrantly demonstrated, but there is not to be found on
the public records a more signal case of public injustice. When to pay
a debt is everybody's business, then it is apparently forever nobody's
business to do so, and thus it happens that popular governments fail
utterly in cases of this nature, where a monarchy would hasten to do
justice.
[19] _Circa 1842._
[20] A third child of Haym Salomon was a daughter, Sallie Salomon, who
married Joseph Andrews. Their son, Joseph I. Andrews, married Miriam
Nones, of New York, a daughter of Major Benjamin Nones of Revolutionary
fame. The daughter of this union, Louisa Andrews, is now Mrs. E. L.
Goldbaum, of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Goldbaum kindly writes me: "We have in
our possession life-size oil paintings of Joseph Andrews, son-in-law of
Haym Salomon, and of his wife Sallie Andrews, _née_ Sallie Salomon."
[21] Poore, Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the
United States (Washington, 1885), pp. 558, 565, 593, 762, 807, 828.
INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH PATRIOTISM.
[A paper written for the American Jewish Historical Society by MAX J.
KOHLER.]
In the present article, the writer proposes to set forth several
incidents in our history not otherwise connected with each other than
the above title indicates, but all tending to show that the Jew has
ever been ready to battle for the cause of his adopted country, be his
domicile where it may. Our subjects herein had differing views as to
what patriotism demanded. We shall speak of French Jews battling for
France, of English Jewish Colonists championing England's cause, and
of American Jews fighting for American liberty and glory, yet all were
equally patriots. In selecting the incidents to be set forth herein the
writer has confined himself exclusively to matters which he believes
are either wholly unknown to the Jewish historian or only partially or
imperfectly known; no treatment of the main subject, other than these
incidents may furnish, will be attempted.
I.
COLONEL DAVID S. FRANKS.
Members have no doubt still fresh in mind the interesting items
relating to Col. Franks, set forth by Dr. Herbert Friedenwald and Prof.
M. Jastrow in No. 1 of our "Proceedings." Since then other data have
been collected and published in regard to the Franks family, to which I
will merely refer; (see the very interesting article on the History of
the Jews of Montreal, prepared for the Montreal _Daily Star_, December
30, 1893, and repeated in the _American Israelite_ in January, 1894,
which has been attributed to Rev. Dr. Meldola de Sola; and also an
article on Rebecca Franks by the present writer, which appeared in the
_American Hebrew_, November 9, 14, 21, and also in pamphlet reprint).
In the present paper, Colonel Franks' early career in Canada will
be chiefly dealt with, the documents herein cited demonstrating the
correctness of Dr. Friedenwald's theory (p. 76) that Franks was drawn
into the Revolutionary contest through pure patriotism and interest in
the struggle which was being carried on south of his earlier domicile.
A contemporary periodical furnishes the data I refer to; it is
entitled: "The Remembrancer or Impartial Repository of Public Events."
Part I, for 1776, London, 1776, pp. 100-6. (The narrative is somewhat
condensed herein, but the documents are set forth in their entirety.)
"On May 2, 1775, the bust of the king at Montreal was found daubed
over and indecently ornamented, the words, "This is the pope of
Canada and the fool of England," being written upon it in French.
A reward of 100 guineas was offered for the discovery of the
perpetrator, and much indignation was expressed among the French
inhabitants, eager to manifest their loyalty to England, one
French gentleman even expressing his opinion that the act ought
to be punished by hanging. Upon hearing this severe opinion, a
young English merchant of the name of Franks, who had settled at
Montreal and who at that time happened to be near the speaker,
replied to him in these words: 'In England men are not hanged for
such small offenses,' which he repeated twice or three times. This
provoked M. de B----(the former speaker) to such a degree, that,
after giving the young man much opprobrious language, he at last
proceeded to blows, and struck him in the face and pulled him by
the nose; upon which the other gave him a blow that knocked him
down. The next day, May the 3d, upon a complaint of M. de B---- to
three officers of justice of a new order, called the Conservators
of the Peace for the District of Montreal, not of the blow he had
received from Franks (for to this he was conscious he had given
occasion by striking him first) but of the words pronounced by the
latter, 'that in England people were not hanged for such small
offenses,' the Conservators issued the warrant hereunder following
for committing young Franks to prison. He was accordingly carried
thither by a party of soldiers with bayonets fixed, and £10,000
bail, that was offered to procure his liberty, and be security for
his appearance to take his trial for the offence, was refused. And
there he continued for a week, at the end of which time, the same
Conservators of the Peace (by the direction, as it is supposed, of
Governor Carleton) ordered him to be discharged without any bail at
all."
The following are the official documents, in translation:
"_District of Montreal._
"By John Fraser, John Marteilhe and Réné Ovide Hertel de Rouville,
Esquires, Judges and Conservators of the Peace in the District of
Montreal:
"WHEREAS, Francis Mary Picote de Bellestre, Esquire, has made oath
on the holy gospels that on Tuesday the second day of this present
month of May, as he was standing still in the street to hear a
proclamation published, concerning those wretches who had insulted
his Majesty's bust, he had openly declared that he thought they
deserved to be hanged: and that thereupon one Salisbury Franks had
answered with surprise, 'that it was not usual to hang people for
such small offences and that it was not worth while to do so,' and
that he had repeated those words several times, and with a loud
voice.
"We, having regard to the said complaint, and considering that
every good subject ought to look upon the said insult to his
Majesty's bust as an act of the most atrocious nature, and
deserving of the utmost abhorrence, and that therefore all
declarations made in conversation that tend to affirm it to be
a small offence, ought to be esteemed criminal: Do, for these
reasons, authorize and command you to convey the said Salisbury
Franks to the prison of the town to be there detained, till he
shall be thence discharged according to law. And for so doing, this
warrant shall be your justification.
"Given at Montreal, under our hands and seals, on the third day of
May, 1775.
John Fraser,
(Signed) John Marteilhe,
Hertel de Rouville."
The warrant to the jailor we omit, but the warrant for his discharge
follows:
"_To the keeper of the jail in Montreal._
"Whereas David Salisbury Franks is now in your custody, in virtue
of our warrant duly sealed and signed; these are now to command
you to forbear detaining any longer the said David Salisbury
Franks, but to suffer him to go at large wherever he pleases and
that without fees. And for so doing, this will be your sufficient
warrant.
"Given under our hands and seals at Montreal, on the 9th day of
May, 1775."
(Signed as above).
It will be noticed that the warrant of release gives the full name of
Franks and leaves it clear that he was the future American patriot. It
should also be noticed that he is described as an Englishman, pointing
to that country as the common home of the various members of the family
of that name in America. (Compare Life of Peter Van Schaack, p. 143,
and Kamble Papers, for references to Franks' family home, a mansion
near London). Also that the amount of bail offered for young Franks,
£10,000, was extraordinarily large for those days.
It is not proposed herein to repeat the interesting incident in the
career of Arnold's aide-de-camp which others have set forth so well.
Their accounts may, however, be supplemented by the following. It
seems that Franks gave testimony to Mrs. Arnold's innocence of all
complicity in her husband's treason. This fact is cited in a note in
the present writer's sketch of Rebecca Franks (p. 12), but the original
authority, the preface to the privately printed Shipper papers, he
has thus far been unable to consult. After the inquiry into Franks'
conduct,--occasioned by the suspicions aroused against him on account
of Arnold's treason--had been held in accordance with his demand,
Franks appears to have been sent to Europe with important dispatches to
Jay and Franklin, with instructions to await their orders. In a letter
from Robert Morris to Franklin, dated Philadelphia, July 13, 1781, we
read: "The bearer of the letter, Major Franks, formerly an aide-de-camp
to General Arnold, and honorably acquitted of all connection with
him after a full and impartial inquiry, will be able to give you our
public news more particularly than I could relate them." (_Diplomatic
Correspondence_, edited by Sparks, Vol. XI, p. 382). His conduct in
France and Spain appears to have been very creditable; Jay speaks very
highly about his discretion and tact and he seems to have won the
particular regard of the Count of Florida Blanca, the Spanish Minister,
with whom Jay was negotiating. (See "Diplomatic Correspondence of the
U. S.," edited by F. Wharton, Vol. IV, 752-754, 756-757, 764-784, V,
121. Thompson Papers (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1878), p. 183.
Accounts of the U. S. during the Administration of the Superintendent
of France, 1781-1784). As noted by Dr. Friedenwald, Franks was sent by
Congress to Europe again in 1784, this time to deliver a triplicate
of the definitive treaty of peace to our ministers plenipotentiary.
Further details about this trip are alluded to in "Military Journal of
Major E. Denny" (Pa. Hist. Society, Pub. 1860) p. 415, where letters
from Frank's associate, Col. Harman, are quoted, and in a letter
written by Harman to a Philadelphia merchant, Jonathan Williams, in
1790, wherein he sends his regards to Franks, and alludes to the "gay
moments we passed together in France, particularly the civilities
received from you at St. Germain, where I dined with you in company
with Mr. Barclay and Col. Franks" (p. 461). Not less interesting
is the narrative of an encounter with Major Franks in 1787, by Dr.
Cutler, on a trip to Philadelphia: "July 12th. Made our next stay at
Bristol. Dined in company with the passengers in the stage, among
whom were General Armstrong and Col. Franks. General Armstrong is a
member of Congress with whom I had a small acquaintance at New York;
Franks was an aide of General Arnold at the time of his desertion to
the British. Both of them high bucks, and affected, as I conceived, to
hold the New England states in contempt. They had repeatedly touched
my Yankee blood, in their conversation at the table; but I was much on
the reserve until, after we had dined, some severe reflections on the
conduct of Rhode Island, and the Insurgency in Massachusetts--placing
the two States in the same point of light--induced me to observe that
'I had no doubt but that the conduct of Rhode Island would prove of
infinite service to the Union; that the insurgency in Massachusetts
would eventually lead to invigorate and establish our government; and
that I considered the State of Pennsylvania--divided and distracted as
she was then in her Councils, the large County of Luzerne on the eve of
an insurrection--to be in as hazardous a situation as any one on the
Continent.'
"This instantly brought on a warm fracas indeed. The cudgels were taken
up on both sides: the contest as fierce as if the fate of empires
depended on the decision. At length victory declared in our favor.
Armstrong began to make concessions. Franks, with more reluctance, at
length gave up the ground. Both acknowledged the New England States
were entitled to an equal share of merit with any in the Union, and
declared they had no intention to reflect. We had the satisfaction
to quit the field with an air of triumph, which my little companion
enjoyed with a high relish; nor could he forget it, all the way to
Philadelphia. But we parted with our antagonists on terms of perfect
good humor and complaisance. My companion frequently afterwards
mentioned the pleasure it gave him to see Armstrong and Franks, "so
completely taken down," as he expressed it, which led me to conclude
he was of the party opposed to them in the political quarrels of
Philadelphia." (Historical magazine, Third Series, Vol. II, pp. 84-85).
But let us pass from Franks to another Canadian.
II.
CHEVALIER DE LEVIS.
The student of Canadian history is very familiar with the name of
Levis, which bids fair to be perpetuated in several geographical
names in that country. The name was borne by Henri de Levis, Duke of
Vontadour, Viceroy of Canada for some time after 1626, but was rendered
more famous through the brilliant career of his relative, the Chevalier
de Levis, Montcalm's able lieutenant, subsequently his successor as
commander of the French forces in Canada, and still later Marshal of
France. Numerous striking illustrations of his gallantry and chivalry
are extant, and it is suggestive that Montcalm should have spoken some
of his last words, in praise of "his gallant Chevalier de Levis," for
whose talents and fitness for command he expressed high esteem. The
writer hereof does not claim that either of these two de Levis' were
Jews, but he does believe that they were of Jewish descent, less on
account of their family name than on account of the following curious
explanation of it: "A family that considered itself to be the oldest
in Christendom. Their chateau contained, it was said, two pictures:
one of the Deluge in which Noah is represented going into the Ark,
carrying under his arm a trunk on which was written: 'Papiers de la
maison de Levis.' The other was a portrait of the founder of the house,
bowing reverently to the Virgin, who is made to say: 'Couvrez-vous, mon
cousin.' 'It is for my own pleasure, my cousin,' replied the descendent
of Levi."
(Compare Horace Walpole's Letters, Kingsford's History of Canada, Vol.
I, p. 77, Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe, I, 150, 360, 363, 378-379, 455,
478, 466; II. 308, 312, 354).
III.
LOPEZ AND HART, OF NEWPORT.
In the last volume of our "Proceedings" and also in Judge Daly's
work, numerous references are to be found to the interesting career
of Aaron Lopez, of Newport, whom the present writer has described as
probably the richest and most successful Jewish man of affairs who
lived in this country before the Revolution. It may be remembered that
Lopez was one of a number of Jewish residents of Newport who found it
necessary to flee from that city at the beginning of the war, when the
British forces moved against the city. Lopez withdrew to Leicester,
Massachusetts, with his family, and remained there until May, 1782.
(Daly's Jews in North America, p. 86). Short as was his stay there,
however, he left a noble memorial of his sojourn behind him, as appears
from the following extract from the Diary of a journey from Plymouth to
Connecticut by Samuel Davis in 1789. (Mass. Hist. Society Proceedings,
1869-1870, p. 11). "Leicester is situate on very high ground. The
Meeting house is a decent edifice, very illy painted. Near it is the
Academy, founded by the late Mr. Lopez, a worthy merchant of the Jewish
tribe. It is a long building of two stories, with a cupola and bell,
and two entrances, fronted by porticos; appears to be decaying. Mr.
James observed at Worcester, that he supposed the preceptor and pupils
would be removed to a handsome new school house in that town."
But Newport contained many Tories as well as Patriots, many of whom
must to-day be regarded as no less patriotic than those whom we
designate by that term. It is, therefore, not surprising to find
Jewish Tories there, and one of the number appears to have been a
martyr to his views, as the following item shows: "Mr. Isaac Hart, of
Newport R. I., formerly an eminent merchant and ever a loyal subject,
was inhumanly fired upon and bayoneted, wounded in fifteen parts of
his body, and beat with their muskets, in the most shocking manner
in the very act of imploring quarter, and died of his wounds a few
hours after, universally regretted by every true lover of his King
and country." (Account of the attack on Fort St. George, Rivington's
Gazette, December 2, 1780).
To leave no doubt as to his faith, the following item, (from Du
Simmitiaire, MSS., 1769) accompanies the preceding one in the Magazine
of American History (Vol. III, p. 452): "At Mr. Isaac Hart's, a Jew,
living at the Point, in Newport, R. I., there is a portrait of the late
Czar, Peter I, done, I believe, by Sir Godfrey Kneller."
IV.
SOME NEW YORK JEWISH PATRIOTS.
The number of New York Jews who served their country by risking life
or fortune in its behalf is well-nigh legion. Hundreds upon hundreds
of instances have been set forth from time to time, covering a time
from the early colonial period, as appears particularly from another
paper by the present writer, through the Revolutionary struggle down to
our own day. But little cause can be assigned for distinguishing a few
from the many in the present article unless it be the probability that
the instances to be referred to herein are but little known. It should
be of interest to notice, for instance, that the decision reached in
1770 to make more stringent the Non-Importation Agreement, which the
colonists adopted to bring England to terms on the taxation question,
had among its signers Samuel Judah, Hayman Levy, Jacob Moses, Jacob
Myers, Jonas Phillips, and Isaac Seixas (_New York Gazette_ and _Weekly
Post Boy_, July 23, 1770).
The victory won by the Jewish Patriots over the loyalists in the
New York Jewish Congregation at the outbreak of the Revolution,
which induced the majority to determine to disband the congregation
for country's sake, has been well described in a former article in
our Society's periodicals and the names of the patriots who, in
consequence, fled to Philadelphia on the approach of the British to New
York are known. In another paper, the writer hereof enumerates some
of the less known but possibly equally patriotic Jewish Loyalists,
who remained in the city. It appears, however, that even the Jewish
cemetery was to witness the strife and struggles of war, for we read
that a battery to overlook the East River and prevent British ships
from entering into it "is planned in some forwardness at the foot of
the Jews' Burying Ground," in March, 1776. (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collection
Pub. Fund Series, Vol. III, pp. 354, 355).
During the war of 1812, the New York Jews appear to have again
manifested their love of country, and one of their number, Col. Nathan
Myers, was even in command of a brigade stationed near the City of New
York in the beginning of the war. (Guernsey; "New York City during
the War of 1812," pp. 86, 436-7). Others manifested their patriotism
by bringing pecuniary sacrifices, as did Herman Hendricks in 1813. In
February of that year, Congress passed an act authorizing a loan of
$16,000,000, but less than $4,000,000 were subscribed. It was then that
New York merchants came to the rescue by subscribing for the bonds, in
spite of the sacrifices that were made in view of the fact that the
government could not obtain money except at a discount of 15 per cent.
Hendricks subscribed for $40,000 of the bonds, being one of the largest
individual subscribers. (Scoville: The Old Merchant of New York City.
First Series, pp. 329-333.)
Among those who served under Col. Myers in this War, was probably
Samuel Noah, a cousin of Mordecai M. Noah, who led a most eventful
life, which has been chronicled in a very interesting way by Gen.
George W. Cullom in his "Biographical Sketches of Deceased Graduates of
the United States Military Academy." We quote the account in full:
"SAMUEL NOAH.
"Class of 1807.
"Died March 10, 1871, at Mount Pulaski, Ill., aged 92.
"Samuel Noah, who was born July 19, 1779, in the City of London, died
March 10, 1871, at Mount Pulaski, Logan county, Illinois, at the
advanced age of nearly 92, he having been for several years the senior
surviving graduate of the United States Military Academy. He was of
Jewish descent, and was a cousin of Mordecai M. Noah, formerly consul
to Tunis, and for many years the editor of various New York journals.
"When twenty years old he emigrated to this country, and after a
residence of several years in New York City, solicited a midshipman's
appointment, but not succeeding, accepted, May 5, 1805, that of a
cadet in the First Regiment of Artillery. Being intelligent and a good
penman, he was often selected as amanuensis to the Superintendent
of the Military Academy, and frequently acted as Judge Advocate or
Recorder of Courts at West Point. Upon graduation, Dec. 9, 1807,
preferring the Infantry arm, he was promoted an ensign in the Second
Regiment, which, after a tedious journey, he joined at Cantonment,
Columbia Springs, in the rear of Fort Adams, Miss. Here he devoted
his leisure hours to the study of the early campaigns of Napoleon,
who was then the military prodigy of the world; but this fascinating
occupation was soon interrupted by his having to watch smugglers on the
Florida frontier and march from one unhealthy camp to another in the
Gulf States. During these migrations he met Captain Winfield Scott just
after his duel near Natchez with Dr. Upshur (brother of the Secretary
of State blown up on board the Princeton), Lieutenant James Gibson,
subsequently killed at the sortie from Fort Erie, Gen. James Wilkinson,
Captain Edmond P. Gaines, Gen. Wade Hampton, and other since famous
officers of whom he had many anecdotes to relate. Wearied finally with
slow promotion, and disgusted that ignorant civilians were appointed
to rank him, he resigned March 13, 1811, his commission of First
Lieutenant in the Army.
"Soon after this period a Mexican deputation from the Junta of
Coahuila, Gen. Bernado Guiteras and Captain Manscac arrived at
Natchitoches, where Lieutenant Magee, a graduate of 1809, was
stationed, and offered him the command with the rank of Colonel of the
combined forces there assembled of Mexicans and Anglo-Americans. After
Magee assumed the command, Noah, allured by visions of a golden future,
joined, as First Lieutenant, this little undisciplined Falstaffian
regiment on the Brazos river, while on its march to Fort Bahia, which
it entered Nov. 14, 1812; but no sooner was the fort in possession of
the Patriot Army than the Spanish royalists besieged it with a force
of five times the strength of the garrison. In this struggle poor
Col. Magee sickened and died, and was buried with the honors of war
during the enemy's cannonade, a six-pounder ball lodging close to the
grave. After the siege was raised, March 28, 1813, and the patriots
reinforced, this little army, with Noah in command of its rear guard,
pursued and routed the Royalists, April 4, 1813, in a sharp combat
near San Antonio, and three days later entered the capital of Texas,
Salcido, the governor, surrendering at discretion with his entire force.
"Informed soon after of the declaration of war by the United States
against Great Britain, Noah, true to the flag of his adopted country,
left Texas, and, escaping through many perils by flood and field,
reached the city of Washington, where he was most sadly disappointed
in not being re-commissioned by President Madison in the United
States Army. Nothing daunted, however, he proceeded to New York, and
volunteered his services as a private soldier with Captain Benjamin
Dunning's company for the defence of Brooklyn, then being fortified by
Gen. Joseph G. Swift, to repel an anticipated descent of the British on
Long Island at Sag Harbor. His services here and at Harlem Heights, to
the close of the war, in aid of the militia force, were most zealous
and untiring, his military education, practical knowledge and quick
intelligence proving powerful auxiliaries to his patriotic devotion to
duty. After the termination of Noah's military career, he taught school
near Goshen, New York, till 1820; then for two years was in England,
being present at the trial of Queen Caroline and the Coronation of
George the Fourth; resumed school teaching and was employed in various
academies in Virginia until May 24, 1848; and subsequently resided
with a faithful friend at Mount Pulaski, Logan county, Ill., where he
died. The romantic record of Samuel Noah's early life is full of wild
adventure and thrilling incidents; his after history was a curious
medley, almost the very counterpart of the vicissitudes to which Gil
Blas was exposed; and his declining years were an old age of poverty,
with little relief even from sources upon which he confidently counted
to ease his weary journey to the grave."
In this connection reference would also seem to be in order to
some New York Jews who served in the Mexican War, one of them with
particular distinction and honor. This list includes Sergeant Jacob
David, Sergeant Samuel Henry, and Private Abraham Adler (killed);
Corporal Jacob Hirshhorn and Private Otto Neubauer, Phillip Myers,
and Jacob Lema, Mark Kahn, Alexander Simm, John Myers, James Hart
and William Hart, ---- Myers, Marx M. Hart, Henry Phillips, Joseph
Henriques, and Jacob C. Somers. (See article by the present writer in
_American Hebrew_, February 9, 1894.)
V.
SOME BALTIMORE JEWS.
Turning next to Baltimore, two interesting incidents are in point. The
one carries us back to Revolutionary times, and is to be connected
with the name of Jacob Hart, one of a number of patriotic merchants of
Baltimore; whether he was the only Jew in the group is unknown. The
incident is briefly referred to as follows, in a letter written by
Lafayette to Washington, April 18, 1781. (Memoirs, Correspondence and
Manuscripts of General Lafayette, Vol. I, page 403.) "To these measures
for punishing deserters, I have added one which my feelings for the
sufferings of the soldiers and peculiarity of their circumstances
have prompted me to adopt. The merchants of Baltimore lent me a sum
of about £2000 which will procure some shirts, linen, overalls, shoes
and a few hats; the ladies will make up the shirts, and the overalls
will be made by the detachment, so that our soldiers have a chance of
being a little more comfortable. The money is lent upon my credit, and
I become security for the payment of it in two years' time, when, by
the French laws, I may better dispose of my estate. But before that
time, I shall use my influence with the French court, in order to have
this sum of money added to any loan Congress may have been able to
obtain from them." The following entry "Accounts of the United States
with the Superintendent of Finance" (Robert Morris) serves to identify
the merchants: "May 27, (1782) Jacob Hart and others for the Repayment
of Money Loaned the Marquis de Lafayette at Baltimore--7256 dollars."
Further details appear from the following passages in the Journals of
Congress, Vol. VII p. 86: "Thursday, May 24, 1781. On the report of the
committee to whom was referred a letter of April 22 from Maj. Gen. the
Marquis de la Fayette:
_Resolved_, That Congress entertains a just sense of the patriotic
and timely exertions of the merchants of Baltimore who so
generously supplied the Marquis de la Fayette with about 2000
guineas, to enable him to forward the detachment under his command;
That the Marquis de la Fayette be assured that Congress will take
proper measures to discharge the engagement he has entered into
with the merchants."
Compare with this an article on "Old Maryland Homes and Ways," by John
W. Palmer, in the _Century_, December 1894, p. 258. Markens in his
"Hebrews in America" (p. 93) briefly refers to the incident, describing
Hart as a Hebrew of German birth, who came to this country in 1775;
he was the father-in-law of Haym M. Salomon, son of the patriot, Haym
Salomon. Certainly not less interesting, though less well known, is
the following incident in the Mexican War, which is translated from
the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums," Vol. X p. 508, August 24,
1846: "The _New York Herald_ of July 15, (1846) contains the following
item, in reference to the call for 50,000 volunteers to join the army
against Mexico: Baltimore July 3. Among the companies which have been
formed here, a volunteer corps of Jews attracts particular attention.
Although composed for the most part of immigrants, they have given, by
the raising of this company, to fight with the native militia on behalf
of our institutions, a splendid instance of their love and devotion
for these and for their new fatherland. Yes, their love for the fame
and independence of our country has been displayed all the more
pointedly as they have organized their company by selecting one not of
their faith as their chief officer, namely, Captain Carroll, who was
paymaster of the Fifth regiment, but willingly resigned his position to
accept the command of this patriotic company of volunteers. Its other
officers are: Mr. Levi Benjamin, first lieutenant; Joseph Simpson,
second lieutenant; Samuel G. Goldsmith, third lieutenant; S. Eytinge,
first sergeant; Dr. J. Horwitz, surgeon." An examination of the copy of
the _Herald_ thus referred to, fails to show the English original of
the above item; either the date or the name of the paper is incorrectly
cited, though the facts are no doubt correctly given.
VI.
SOUTH CAROLINA JEWISH PATRIOTS.
The following item from an article by Rev. Isaac Leeser, in _The
Occident_, Vol. XVI, p. 142 (1858) gives in some little detail a story
since then oft repeated; the primary authorities for the incident are
still unknown to the writer thereof: "A company of soldiers who did
good service in the defence of Charleston Harbor were nearly all,
if not all Jews. The names of Daniel W. Cardozo, Jacob I. Cohen,
Sr., and Isaiah Isaacs, we think, must have been on the roll of that
company. Relations or descendants of all of these are still to be
found among our most respectable families. Sheftall Sheftall, Isaac
N. Cardozo, a brother of David, and Colonel Bush, occur to us just
now as brave soldiers in the Revolution, and no doubt many others are
known to other persons." Compare with this the following passage from
a speech of Col. J. W. D. Worthington on the Jew Bill, Maryland, 1824
(Speeches on the Jew Bill, etc., by H. N. Brackenridge, Phila. 1829,
p. 115): "Here is another paper which contains the names of a corps of
volunteer infantry, in Charleston, South Carolina, in February, 1779.
It was composed chiefly of Israelites, residing in King's Street and
was commanded by Captain Lushington, and afterward fought under Gen.
Moultrie at the Battle of Beaufort." Also Westcott's "Persons Who Took
the Oath of Allegiance to Pennsylvania." "Abraham Seixas, formerly an
officer in the Militia of Charleston, South Carolina, lately arrived in
this city, Philadelphia; Merchant, May 31, 1782."
VII.
MORDECAI SHEFTALL, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
We may fittingly close this paper with an account of a Jewish patriot
of the Revolution who held important and responsible positions under
both Congressional and Georgia State control, and who had occasion
to find that the Sovereign will often decline to pay even the most
bona fide debts, where powerful influence to force bills for their
payment through Congress is wanting. One of the witnesses in the Court
Martial Proceedings, of Major General Howe, in 1780, (N. Y. Hist.
Soc. Collections, 1879, pp. 260-263, 301) was Mordecai Sheftall, who
was Deputy Commissary General of Issues to the Continental troops in
Georgia during the period of the British invasion of that State, and
also Commissary General of Purchase and Issues to the Militia. He
testified to various measures he had recommended for removing supplies
from positions of danger, to prevent their falling into the hands of
the British, and it is very suggestive that these provisions should
be referred to in the Index, under the heading: "Jewish Thrift,"
(Collections, 1880, p. 461). In his defence, General Howe referred to
him as follows: "Mr. Sheftall, the Deputy Commissary General of Issues,
has been brought by the prosecutors to prove upon me, as I suppose, a
neglect of the public stores. I have ever had a favorable opinion of
Mr. Sheftall, as an honest man, and from the testimony of such, I know
I have nothing to fear; his evidence, therefore, is in my favor. Many
measures, however, were pursued that Mr. Sheftall might have had no
knowledge of." Mr. Sheftall's was one of the earliest Jewish families
in Georgia, and various items in regard to his character and standing
are collated in Judge Daly's work (p. 70, et seq.), where his name
is, erroneously, it seems, spelt Sheftail. On page 72 reference is
made to Cushman Polack, who was also a witness in the Howe trial, (pp.
264-5) he having been a private in the militia in Georgia at the same
time; his name is there spelt "Coshman Pollock". Markens also adds,
on what authority I am unable to state, (p. 49) that when the British
took possession of Savannah, December 29, 1778, Mordecai Sheftall,
with his son Sheftall Sheftall, endeavored to make his escape, but was
compelled to surrender by a body of Highlanders. He was taken to the
guard-house, where the officer in charge was instructed to guard him
well, as he was "a great rebel." There he was confined with a number of
soldiers and negroes without a morsel to eat until a Hessian officer
named Zeltman, finding he could speak his language, removed him to his
quarters and permitted him to communicate with his wife and son. In an
interesting narrative, published many years ago, Mr. Sheftall states
that he was treated with abuse by Captain Strarhope of the "Raven"
sloop of war, and he and his son were ordered on board the prison ship.
His name, with the inscription, "Chairman Rebel Provisional Committee,"
is enrolled on the list of those who were selected as coming under
the Disqualifying Act of July, 1780, and thus rendered "incapable of
holding or exercising any office of trust, honor or profit in the
Province of Georgia."
The writer hereof believes that, until now, no particulars have been
known to the Jewish historian in regard to a claim urged by Sheftall,
and afterwards his widow, before Congress. It appears that he presented
a petition to the House of Representatives on March 29, 1792, asking
for a settlement of his accounts as Deputy Commissary General of Issues
for the Southern Department during the Revolutionary War with Great
Britain. The claim was referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, who
reported it to the next Congress, though the nature of his report
is not known to the writer. In the fourth Congress the petition was
referred to the Committee on Claims, which reported it back to the
House, February 11, 1797. In the House List of Private Claims (Vol.
III, p. 305-6), this report is marked "adverse." No authority seems to
exist for this statement. In fact, another claim reported at the same
time was rejected at once, but the Sheftall claim was referred to the
Committee of the Whole on the following Wednesday, but on that day
it does not appear to have been considered. In the Seventh Congress,
Frances, widow of Mordecai Sheftall, renewed her husband's petition
and it was again referred to a committee. This committee's report
was read and considered on April 3, 1802, but further Consideration
was postponed till the 4th Monday of November following, which was
practically equivalent to killing the measure, as Congress never meets
in ordinary session in November. (Journals of Congress, House, Second,
1st Session, p. 554; Third, 1st Session, pp. 77-8; Fourth, 1st Session,
p. 451; Fourth, 2d Session, p. 691; Seventh, 1st Session, 136, 177,
Carpenter; American Senator, III, 449-50). No further information as
to the claim is at hand. From the persistence in pressing it, it must
be concluded that some substantial sum was involved. It may be that it
was rejected because the United States declined to assume liability
for the acts of the State of Georgia, there having been a series of
controversies between the State and General Government as to the
liability of the latter for military services and expenditures incurred
in behalf of the former. At any rate, the claim does not appear to have
been paid, and like the Haym Salomon claim, is another illustration
of our country's ingratitude to those who made sacrifices for it of
worldly goods and life and limb in its hours of need.
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMIES.
Scant and unsatisfactory as are the army records of the Revolutionary
period, enough of an authentic character has been preserved to fully
sustain the statement of Solomon Etting, who, writing in Baltimore
in 1824, notes that among the soldiers of the Revolution "were many
Hebrews who were always at their post and always foremost in all
hazardous enterprises." This almost contemporary notice emanates from a
Jew whose father had served in the Continental army from the beginning
of the Revolution to the capture of Charleston, and who, through the
prominence of his family had been brought in contact with many of the
distinguished participants in the momentous struggle.
The active co-operation of Jewish citizens in the non-importation
movement of 1763 has already been adverted to, but even before that
time we find references to prominent Jewish participants in the public
defense. In 1754, during the French and Indian War, Isaac Myers, a
Jewish citizen of New York, called a town meeting at the "Rising Sun"
Inn and organized a company of bateau men of which he became captain.
Two other Jews are named as taking part in the same war, both of whom
served in the expedition across the Allegheny mountains in the year
above noted. It is altogether probable that these three were not the
only Jewish soldiers of that early war, but only these have left traces
of their presence. In the following year, 1755, when the colonies were
agitated by the disastrous ending of the Braddock campaign and the
incipient movement toward federation, we find a Jew, Benjamin Cohen, a
member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania and Attorney-General
of the colony.
The chronicles of the Revolutionary War afford a considerable and in
many respects an interesting list of Jewish names. A few of the more
prominent of these have already been mentioned under preceding heads,
and others cited on the records are here added in alphabetical order:
Captain NOAH ABRAHAM
was called out with the battalion of Cumberland County Militia, of
Pennsylvania, "by an order from Council, July 28, 1777."
AARON BENJAMIN,
Ensign of 8th Connecticut Regiment, January 1, 1777; Second
Lieutenant, February 14, 1778; First Lieutenant, May 7, 1778;
Regimental Adjutant, April 1, 1780, to January, 1783; transferred
to 5th Connecticut Regiment January 1, 1781; transferred to
3d Connecticut Regiment January 1, 1783; retained in Swift's
Connecticut Regiment June, 1783, and served to November 3, 1783;
Lieutenant-Colonel of 37th United States Infantry March 11, 1813;
honorably discharged June 15, 1815; died January 11, 1829.
SAMUEL BENJAMIN,
Ensign of 8th Massachusetts Regiment January 1, 1777; Second
Lieutenant October 3, 1777; First Lieutenant March 28, 1779, served
to June, 1783.
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD,
Captain of 3d New Jersey Regiment February 9, 1776; Deputy
Judge Advocate-General November 17, 1776, to October 29, 1778;
Brigadier-General United States Army March 27, 1812; honorably
discharged June 15, 1815; died October 3, 1823.
MOSES BLOOMFIELD,
(New Jersey) Hospital Surgeon May 14, 1777; Hospital Physician and
Surgeon October 6, 1780; resigned December 13, 1780; died August
14, 1791.
HENRY PIKE BUSH
is recorded as a soldier in the "Associators and Flying Camp,"
Pennsylvania.
Colonel SOLOMON BUSH
was an officer in the Pennsylvania Militia (1777-1778), whose
record is highly creditable and whose services won for him a
well-deserved promotion. He was appointed Deputy Adjutant General
of the Militia of the State on July 5, 1777. As to his subsequent
career in the army, no stronger testimony could be desired than
that set forth in the resolution adopted by the Supreme Executive
Council of Pennsylvania, at its session on Wednesday, October 20,
1779. It reads thus:
"The petition of Major Solomon Bush, in the militia of this State,
being read, and due inquiry having been made into the circumstances
of his case, it appears that Major Bush has, on many occasions,
distinguished himself in the public service, especially in the
winter of 1776, when the service was critical and hazardous.
"That he entered again into the said service in the summer of 1777,
when General Sir William Howe invaded the State and the militia
were called out pursuant to the resolutions of Congress and the
requisition of His Excellency, General Washington; and in the
month of September, 1777, acting as Deputy Adjutant General, he
was dangerously wounded in a skirmish between the militia and the
advance of the British Army, his thigh being broken and he brought
off with great difficulty; that being carried to his father's
house, on Chestnut Hill, and incapable of being moved, he fell into
the hands of the British Army, when it moved up to Whitemarsh, in
December, 1777, who took his parole; That he has ever since been
confined with his wound, and incapable of performing any military
duty, or acquiring a livelihood, but on the other hand, his
situation attended with much difficulty and expense.
"All which circumstances being considered, and that the said Major
Bush being at the time of receiving his wounds in Continental
Service and now a prisoner of war.
"Resolved, That he be recommended to the especial notice of the
Honourable Board of War, in order to obtain pay and rations equal
to his rank; and that this Board in consideration of the services
and sufferings of Major Bush, will permit him to draw from the
State store, from time to time, such articles as may be necessary
for his comfortable Subsistence and Support."
That Major Bush had already been promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, is evidenced by another resolution,
complimentary to him, adopted by the same Council seven days
later, when he was "recommended to the Honourable the Board of
War, for pay and rations accordingly." Again on November 5, 1785,
the Council, over which Benjamin Franklin then presided, passed an
order for the payment of a pension due to Lieutenant-Colonel Bush.
Major LEWIS BUSH
became First Lieutenant of the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion on
January 9, 1776 and Captain the following June. He was transferred
to Colonel Thomas Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment January
13, 1773 and was commissioned Major, March 12, 1777. That he proved
a brave soldier, his efficient service in a number of battles
affords ample evidence. At the battle of Brandywine, September 11,
1777, he was fatally wounded, and four days later he died.
JONAS BUSH
was in the roll of revolutionary soldiers, but there is no
information given as to his rank or date of enlistment.
JACOB I. COHEN
in 1783 went to Charleston, S. C., and during the campaign which
followed, took part as a volunteer soldier in the Continental army,
serving under Moultrie and Lincoln. Frequent references to Mr.
Cohen are found in the Madison papers, and his valuable services
are repeatedly adverted to.
PHILIP JACOB COHEN
became so distinguished for the services he rendered to the
Colonies that he was singled out by the British authorities through
a special order depriving him of the right of holding or exercising
any office of trust, honor or profit in the Province of Georgia.
MORDECAI DAVIS,
Ensign of 2nd Pennsylvania Battery January 5, 1776; died on August
12, 1776.
REUBEN ETTING
was a clerk in Baltimore at the time of the battle at Lexington.
Although only 19 years of age, he enlisted in a Maryland company,
which hastened north to join the forces of Congress. He served
in various battles and was taken prisoner by the British at the
surrender of Charleston. When released from imprisonment by
exchange he was broken in health from ill treatment in prison and
exposure on the field. He was a captain of the Independent Blues in
1798, and Marshal of Maryland, appointed by President Jefferson.
SOLOMON ETTING,
a native of York, Pennsylvania, appears as one of the committee of
citizens appointed to forward resolutions to Washington expressive
of disapprobation of a proposed treaty with Great Britain.
Subsequently settled in Baltimore and became President of the
Municipal Council.
Colonel ISAAC FRANKS,
who then lived in Philadelphia, entered the army shortly after the
battle of Lexington. He became aide-de-camp to General Washington,
holding the rank of colonel, and serving throughout the war. After
the Revolution Colonel Franks became the incumbent of various
civil offices, among them Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, being appointed to that position on February 18,
1819. His residence in Germantown was for some time occupied by
President Washington.
Colonel DAVID S. FRANKS, Aide-de-camp. See sketch on p. 27.
MICHAEL GRATZ,
of Philadelphia, aided the Colonists in the Revolutionary war. He
was one of the signers of the Non-Importation Resolutions (October
20, 1765), after the passage of the Stamp Act, and was among the
most active, patriotic and respected Israelites of Philadelphia,
being a conspicuous character in public affairs.
BERNARD HART
was Quartermaster of a brigade of State troops during the
Revolution.
MICHAEL HART,
a public spirited and leading citizen of Easton, Pa., of whom it is
recorded:
"Let it be remembered that Michael Hart was a Jew, practically
pious, a Jew reverencing and strictly observant of the Sabbath and
Festivals; dietary laws were also adhered to. * * * Mark well that
he, Washington, the then honored as 'first in peace, first in war,
and first in the hearts of his countrymen,' even during a short
sojourn, became for the hour the guest of the worthy Jew."
MOSES HAMMER
enlisted as a private in the 1st Pennsylvania Battalion November
15, 1775.
DAVID HAYS, JR.,
was an active participant in the struggle for independence and
served with the Colonial Army on Long Island. In retaliation for
his patriotic services the Tories burned his house and store. Prior
to the Revolution he was one of the Commissioners appointed by the
British authorities to lay out public lands. All of his family
sided with the Colonists during the War of Independence.
DAVID HAYS and JACOB HAYS,
father and son, fought in various of the battles for independence.
Colonel ISAACS,
of North Carolina Militia; wounded and taken prisoner at Camden
August 16, 1780; exchanged July, 1781.
MOSES ISAACKS,
one of the early settlers of Newport, R. I., was an active
supporter of the Army of the Revolution. He had the honor of
receiving General Washington as a guest at his house.
SOLOMON ISAAC
enlisted as a private in the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, company of
Capt. Robert Adams, February 6, 1776.
ISAAC ISRAEL,
2nd Lieutenant of 8th Virginia Regiment, February 9, 1776; 1st
Lieutenant, January, 1777; Captain, November 23, 1777; transferred
to 4th Virginia Regiment, September 14, 1778.
JOSEPH ISRAEL
volunteered as a soldier during the Revolution.
JACOB LEON
was an officer on the staff of General Pulaski.
JACOB DE LEON,
of Charleston, S. C., was a distinguished officer of the War of the
Revolution. He served as captain on the staff of General de Kalb,
and when the latter was mortally wounded at the battle of Camden,
S. C., de Leon in company with Major Benjamin Nones and Captain
Jacob de la Motta, of the staff, carried de Kalb from the field.
ASHER LEVY,
Ensign of 1st New Jersey Regiment, September 12, 1778; resigned
June 4, 1779.
NATHANIEL LEVY,
of Baltimore, served under Lafayette during the Revolutionary War.
ISRAEL DE LIEBER
was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who rose from the ranks to
military positions of honor and trust.
JACOB MOSER,
Captain of 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, February 15, 1777; retired,
July 1, 1778.
BENJAMIN MOSES
served on the staff of General Pulaski.
ISAAC MOSES,
of Philadelphia, advanced three thousand pounds when Robert Morris
undertook to raise money to prosecute the War of Independence; he
was active in the Jewish communities of New York and Philadelphia.
EMANUEL DE LA MOTTA
served in the Revolution and in the War of 1812. In recognition of
his valor as displayed in battle he was promoted from the ranks to
a military position of honor.
JACOB DE LA MOTTA
was a captain on the staff of General Pulaski.
MANUEL MORDECAI NOAH,
of South Carolina, (1747-1825) patriot and soldier; heretofore
referred to as having contributed twenty thousand pounds to the
support of the American army; served with General Marion, also on
the staff of General Washington.
MAJOR BENJAMIN NONES,
a native of Bordeaux, France, came to Philadelphia in 1777. He
served at various times on the staff of General Lafayette and
on that of General Washington. He had previously been a private
under General Pulaski, and had, as he writes, "fought in almost
every action which took place in Carolina, and in the disastrous
affair of Savannah, shared the hardships of that sanguinary day."
He became major of a Legion of four hundred men attached to Baron
De Kalb's command and composed in part of Hebrews. At the battle
of Camden, S. C., on August 16, 1780, when the brave De Kalb fell
mortally wounded, Major Nones, Capt. Jacob De la Motta and Capt.
Jacob de Leon bore their chief from the battlefield.
Major Nones rendered many conspicuous services, civil and military,
to his adopted country.
ABRAHAM R. RIVERA
was a member of the artillery corps of Newport, R. I., in 1790.
PHILIP MOSES RUSSEL
was born 1745, and resided in Germantown, Pa. When the war broke
out in the Spring of 1775 he enlisted as surgeon's mate under the
command of General Lee, serving about ten months. After the British
occupation of Philadelphia, in September, 1777, he became surgeon's
mate to Surgeon Norman, of the Second Virginia Regiment.
Russell went into winter quarters with the army at Valley Forge,
1777-1778. An attack of sickness, which impaired both his sight and
hearing, forced him to resign in August, 1780. He received a letter
of commendation from General Washington, "for his assiduous and
faithful attentions to the sick and wounded."
EZEKIEL SAMPSON,
Lieutenant of Baldwin's Artillery, Artificer Regiment, May to
December, 1775.
JOSEPH SAMPSON,
2nd Lieutenant of Cotton's Massachusetts Regiment, May to December,
1775.
ABRAHAM SEIXES, was a lieutenant in the Georgia Brigade of the
Continental Army.
MORDECAI SHEFTALL. See biographical sketch, p. 40.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HEBREW CITIZENS.
[Papers collated by LEWIS ABRAHAM, Esq., and presented at the
meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society, at Washington,
December 27th, 1894.]
When Washington had concluded his labors in the field of war and had
attained deserved civic honors, and when laurels were showered upon
him from all quarters the Hebrews joined their fellow-citizens in
felicitating the hero and statesman.
The following correspondence is collated from _The United States
Gazette_, of 1790; a partial file of this paper can be found in the
Congressional Library. It is strange that the letters are not all to be
found in books in which the Washington correspondence are compiled.
The original letter addressed to the "Beth Elohim" congregation of
Charleston, S. C., was carefully preserved among the many other
valuable records of that city, but was destroyed by the great fire of
1838. The Mayor of Charleston endeavored to obtain a copy from the
general government, but after a thorough examination of the records,
no such document could be found. After a prolonged search, however,
the present writer was enabled to discover the missing document, and
was well rewarded with the thanks of the authorities of Charleston.
(Year-Book of the City of Charleston for 1884, page 280.)
The "_Address from the Hebrew Congregation of the City of Savannah,
Ga., to George Washington, the First President of the United States_,"
presented by Mr. Jackson, one of the representatives from Georgia.
SIR: We have long been anxious of congratulating you on your
appointment, by unanimous approbation, to the Presidential dignity
of this country and of testifying our unbounded confidence in your
integrity and unblemished virtue. Yet however exalted the station
you now fill, it is still not equal to the merit of your heroic
services through an arduous and dangerous conflict which has
embosomed you in the hearts of her citizens.
Our eccentric situation, added to a diffidence founded on the
most profound respect, has thus long prevented our address, yet
the delay has realized anticipation, given us an opportunity of
presenting our grateful acknowledgements for the benediction of
Heaven through the magnanimity of federal influence and the equity
of your administration.
Your unexampled liberality and extensive philanthropy have
dispelled that cloud of bigotry and superstition which has
long, as a vail, shaded religion--unrivetted the fetters of
enthusiasm--enfranchised us with all the privileges and immunities
of free citizens, and initiated us into the grand mass of
legislative mechanism. By example you have taught us to endure the
ravages of war with manly fortitude, and to enjoy the blessings of
peace with reverence to the Deity and with benignity and love to
our fellow-creatures.
May the Great Author of the world grant you all happiness--an
uninterrupted series of health--addition of years to the number of
your days, and a continuance of guardianship to that freedom which
under auspices of Heaven your magnanimity and wisdom have given
these States.
LEVI SHEFTALL, _President_.
In behalf of the Hebrew Congregations.
* * * * *
To which the President was pleased to return the following reply:
(Printed in Jared Sparks collection, Vol. XII, p. 185).
_To the Hebrew Congregations of the City of Savannah, Georgia_:
GENTLEMEN: I thank you with great sincerity for your
congratulations on my appointment to the office which I have the
honor to hold by the unanimous choice of my fellow-citizens, and
especially the expressions you are pleased to use in testifying the
confidence that is reposed in me by your congregations.
As the delay which has naturally intervened between my election
and your address has afforded me an opportunity for appreciating
the merits of the Federal Government and for communicating your
sentiments of its administration, I have rather to express
my satisfaction rather than regret at a circumstance which
demonstrates (upon experiment) your attachment to the former as
well as approbation of the latter.
I rejoice that a spirit of liberality and philanthropy is much more
prevalent than it formerly was among the enlightened nations of the
earth, and that your brethren will benefit thereby in proportion
as it shall become still more extensive; happily the people of the
United States have, in many instances exhibited examples worthy of
imitation, the salutary influence of which will doubtless extend
much farther if gratefully enjoying those blessings of peace which
(under the favor of heaven) have been attained by fortitude in
war, they shall conduct themselves with reverence to the Deity and
charity toward their fellow-creatures.
May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered the
Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in a promised
land, _whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous
in establishing these United States as an independent nation_,
still continue to water them with the dews of heaven and make the
inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and
spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.
G. WASHINGTON.
* * * * *
_Address of the Newport Congregation to the President of the United
States of America_:
SIR: Permit the children of the stock of Abraham to approach you
with the most cordial affection and esteem for your person and
merit, and to join with our fellow-citizens in welcoming you to
Newport.
With pleasure we reflect on those days of difficulty and danger
when the God of Israel, who delivered David from the peril of the
sword, shielded your head in the day of battle; and we rejoice to
think that the same spirit which rested in the bosom of the greatly
beloved Daniel, enabling him to preside over the province of the
Babylonian Empire, rests and ever will rest upon you, enabling you
to discharge the arduous duties of the Chief Magistrate of these
States.
Deprived as we hitherto have been of the invaluable rights of free
citizens, we now--with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty
Disposer of all events--behold a government erected by the majesty
of the people, a government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to
persecution no assistance, but generously affording to all liberty
of conscience and immunities of citizenship, deeming every one of
whatever nation, tongue, and language equal parts of the great
governmental machine.
This so ample and extensive Federal Union, whose base is
philanthropy, mutual confidence and public virtue, we cannot but
acknowledge to be the work of the Great God who rules in the armies
of the heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth, doing
whatever seemeth to Him good.
For all the blessings of civil and religious liberty which we
enjoy under an equal benign administration, we desire to send
up our thanks to the Ancient days, the great Preserver of men,
beseeching Him that the angel who conducted our forefathers through
the wilderness into the promised land may graciously conduct
you through all the difficulties and dangers of this mortal
life; and when, like Joshua, full of days and full of honors,
you are gathered to your fathers, may you be admitted into the
heavenly paradise to partake of the water of life and the tree of
immortality.
Done and signed by order of the Hebrew Congregation in Newport,
Rhode Island.
MOSES SEIXES, _Warden_.
Newport, August 17, 1790.
* * * * *
_Washington's reply to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R. I._:
GENTLEMEN: While I receive with much satisfaction your address
replete with expressions of esteem, I rejoice in the opportunity
of assuring you that I shall always retain grateful remembrance of
the cordial welcome I experienced on my visit to Newport, from all
classes of citizens.
The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger, which are
past, is rendered the more sweet from a consciousness that they are
succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security.
If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which
we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration
of a good government, to become a great and happy people.
The citizens of the United States of America have a right to
applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an
enlarged and liberal policy, a policy worthy of imitation. All
possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were by the
indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise
of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government
of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to
persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under
its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving
it on all occasions their effectual support.
It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not
to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my
administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity.
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land
continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants,
while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig
tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon
our paths and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and
in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.
G. WASHINGTON.
* * * * *
_The address of the Hebrew Congregations in the cities of Philadelphia,
New York, Richmond, and Charleston, to the President of the United
States_:
SIR: It is reserved for you to unite in affection for your
character and person every political and religious denomination of
men, and in this will the Hebrew congregations aforesaid yield to
no class of their fellow-citizens.
We have hitherto been prevented by various circumstances peculiar
to our situation from adding our congratulations to those which the
rest of America have offered on your elevation to the chair of the
Federal Government. Deign, then, illustrious sir, to accept this
our homage.
The wonders which the Lord of Hosts hath worked in the days of
our forefathers have taught us to observe the greatness of His
wisdom and His might throughout the events of the late glorious
Revolution; and, while we humble ourselves at His footstool in
thanksgiving and praise for the blessing of His deliverance, we
acknowledge you, the leader of American armies, as His chosen and
beloved servant. But not to your sword alone is present happiness
to be ascribed; that, indeed, opened the way to the reign of
freedom, but never was it perfectly secure until your hand gave
birth to the Federal Constitution and you renounced the joys of
retirement to seal by your administration in peace what you had
achieved in war.
To The Eternal God, who is thy refuge, we commit in our prayers the
care of thy precious life; and when, full of years, thou shalt be
gathered unto thy people, 'thy righteousness shall go before thee,'
and we shall remember, amidst our regret, "that the Lord hath set
apart the godly for Himself," whilst thy name and thy virtues will
remain an indelible memorial on our minds.
MANUEL JOSEPHSON.
For and in behalf and under the authority of the several
congregations aforesaid.
Philadelphia, December 13, 1790.
* * * * *
The President was pleased to reply to the foregoing as follows:
_Answer--To the Hebrew Congregations in the cities of Philadelphia,
New York, Charleston, and Richmond_:
GENTLEMEN: The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which
marks every political and religious denomination of men in this
country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
The affection of such a people is a treasure beyond the reach of
calculation, and the repeated proofs which my fellow-citizens have
given of their attachment to me and approbation of my doings,
form the purest source of my temporal felicity. The affectionate
expressions of your address again excite my gratitude and receive
my warmest acknowledgement.
The power and goodness of The Almighty, so strongly manifested
in the events of our late glorious revolution, and His kind
interposition in our behalf, have been no less visible in the
establishment of our present equal government. In war He directed
the sword, and in peace He has ruled in our councils. My agency in
both has been guided by the best intentions and a sense of duty I
owe to my country.
And as my exertions have hitherto been amply rewarded by the
approbation of my fellow-citizens, I shall endeavor to deserve a
continuance of it by my future conduct.
May the same temporal and eternal blessings which you implore for
me, rest upon your congregations.
G. WASHINGTON.
* * * * *
The foregoing expressions of the father of his country to his Hebrew
fellow-citizens may be appropriately supplemented by the following
correspondence of patriots of the early days of the United States.
In 1818 the Mill Street Synagogue was consecrated. Mordecai M. Noah
delivered an eloquent address on the occasion, and sent copies thereof
to distinguished statesmen. Among the replies received were the
following, which are worthy of preservation:
COPY OF A LETTER FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON.[22]
MONTICELLO, May 28, 1818.
_Sir_:--I thank you for the discourse on the consecration of the
Synagogue in your city, with which you have been pleased to favor
me. I have read it with pleasure and instruction, having learnt
from it some valuable facts in Jewish history which I did not know
before. Your sect by sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof
of the universal spirit of religious intolerance inherent in every
sect, disclaimed by all while feeble, and practiced by all when
in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice,
protecting our religious, as they do our civil rights, by putting
all on an equal footing. But more remains to be done, for although
we are free by the law, we are not so in practice; public opinion
erects itself into an Inquisition, and exercises its office with as
much fanaticism as fans the flames of an _Auto-de-fe_. #/
The prejudice still scowling on your section of our religion,
although the elder one, cannot be unfelt by yourselves; it is to be
hoped that individual dispositions will at length mould themselves
to the model of the law, and consider the moral basis, on which
all our religions rest, as the rallying point which unites them
in a common interest; while the peculiar dogmas branching from it
are the exclusive concern of the respective sects embracing them,
and no rightful subject of notice to any other; public opinion
needs reformation on that point, which would have the further happy
effect of doing away the hypocritical maxim of "_intus et lubet,
foris ut moris_." Nothing, I think, would be so likely to effect
this, as to your sect particularly, as the more careful attention
to education, which you recommend, and which, placing its members
on the equal and commanding benches of science, will exhibit them
as equal objects of respect and favor. I salute you with great
respect and esteem.
(Signed)
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
M. M. NOAH, Esq.
* * * * *
COPY OF A LETTER FROM JAMES MADISON, ESQ., ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
MONTPELIER, May, 15, 1818.
_Sir_:--I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent
discourse delivered at the consecration of the Synagogue. Having
ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as
equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as
the best human provision for bringing all, either into the same way
of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only proper
substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit
in which your sect partake of the common blessings afforded by our
Government and laws.
As your foreign mission took place whilst I was in the
administration, it cannot but be agreeable to me to learn that your
accounts have been closed in a manner so favorable to you.
(Signed).
JAMES MADISON.
* * * * *
COPY OF A LETTER FROM JOHN ADAMS, ESQ.
QUINCY, July 31, 1818.
_Sir_:--Accept my best thanks for your polite and obliging favor
of the 24th, and especially for the discourse inclosed. I know not
when I have read a more liberal or more elegant composition.
You have not extended your ideas of the right of private judgment
and the liberty of conscience, both in religion and philosophy,
farther than I do. Mine are limited only by morals and propriety.
I have had occasion to be acquainted with several gentlemen of your
nation, and to transact business with some of them, whom I found
to be men of as liberal minds, as much honor, probity, generosity
and good breeding, as any I have known in any sect of religion or
philosophy.
I wish your nation may be admitted to all privileges of citizens in
every country of the world. This country has done much. I wish it
may do more, and annul every narrow idea in religion, government,
and commerce. Let the wits joke; the philosopher sneer! What then?
It has pleased the Provident of the 'first cause,' the universal
cause, that Abraham should give religion, not only to Hebrews,
but to Christians and Mahometans, the greatest part of the modern
civilized world.
(Signed) JOHN ADAMS.
FOOTNOTES:
[22] _Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary States in the
years 1813-14 and 15._ By Mordecai M. Noah; New York and London, 1819.
Appendix, pp. xxv and xxvi.
_EXEGI MONUMENTUM ÆRE PERENNIUS._
THE STATUE OF JEFFERSON.
[A paper read before the Jewish Historical Society, December 27, 1894,
by LEWIS ABRAHAM, Esq.]
In accordance with a resolution offered by Senator Justin S. Morrill,
of Vermont, while he was a member of the House of Representatives, in
1864, "that each State should be permitted to send the effigies of
two of her chosen sons, in marble or bronze, to be placed permanently
here," the old Hall of Representatives is fast becoming an American
memorial chamber.
Several statues, purchased by the United States, have been deposited
there, and many of the States have taken advantage of the privilege and
have honored their distinguished dead in the manner suggested by the
resolution of Congress.
There is, however, one splendid work of art in the corridor that has a
peculiar history. It was a gift to the Government. All the others have
been paid for by Congress or the several State Legislatures. The bronze
statue of Thomas Jefferson, by David d'Angers, a French sculptor, was
presented to Congress by an Israelite, Lieutenant (afterward Commodore)
Uriah Phillips Levy, of the United States Navy, in 1833, but was not
formally accepted until forty years thereafter.
Originally it stood in the rotunda, but was removed from there and
for many years remained in the grounds in front of the Presidential
Mansion. After its acceptance in 1874, upon motion of Senator Sumner,
it was finally located in its present position. It represents the
author of the Declaration of Independence as just having signed that
instrument of American Liberty. The pedestal is a superb piece of work,
executed by Struthers, of Philadelphia, in four varieties of marble.
It was the first piece of statuary ever owned by the Government, and
is dedicated by the donor to his fellow citizens. Upon the scroll
which Jefferson holds in his hand is engraved a verbatim copy of the
Declaration of Independence, with fac-simile signatures of John Hancock
and Thomas Jefferson.
The Levy family were intimate personal friends of the great framer of
our _Magna Charta_ and second President, and after his death became
the owners of his old family seat, Monticello. There is a special
significance in the gift and in the sentiment it conveys, and the
co-religionists of Levy remember with pardonable pride that this piece
of statuary, symbolizing the grand declaration of human equality and
honoring one of the greatest of the men who erected the fabric of
American Liberty, was the free-will offering of one of their people.
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT,
The commemoration of the first battle field of the Revolutionary War by
a monument was made possible through a liberal contribution by Judah
Touro. The proceedings of the Committee charged with the erection on
Bunker Hill of a memorial to the patriots and heroes who laid the
foundation of the Union, include a grateful acknowledgment of Touro's
assistance.
The history of the monument, published by George Washington Warren,
contains the following statement (page 283): "It was confidentially
communicated to the Directors by Mr. William Appleton that whenever
the Association, in addition to a like offer of Mr. Lawrence, should
have money enough within ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to finish their
work, Judah Touro would give that sum. It was a noble offer, and coming
from a resident of a distant State, curiosity was excited."
Then follows a biographical sketch of this eminent citizen, concluding
as follows: "He was one of that smallest of all classes into which
mankind can be divided--of men who accumulate wealth without even doing
a wrong, taking an advantage, or making an enemy; who become rich
without being avaricious: who deny themselves the comforts of life,
that they may acquire the means of promoting the comfort and elevating
the condition of their fellowmen."
To complete the monument a fair (at which delegates from all the States
attended) was held in Boston by ladies in aid of the building fund.
The delegation from Louisiana, in their capacity as representatives of
that State, purchased the fine model of the monument which adorned
the Charleston table and they caused it to be transported to New
Orleans and to be placed, in honor of Judah Touro, in one of the public
buildings where it remained until it was destroyed with the building by
fire.
In the abstract of donations (page 311) received from private sources,
the gross sum is stated as $55,153.27, of which Judah Touro donated
$10,000.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
"RESOLVED, That the Directors receive the contribution of Mr. Touro
with sentiments of deep and grateful respect, considering it as a
testimonial of his regard for the principles and the contest for which,
and its successful issue, the monument is intended to commemorate, and
his affectionate recollection of the friends of his youth and the place
of his early residence.
"RESOLVED, That John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Joseph Story,
Edward Everett and Franklin Dexter be appointed a committee to prepare
an inscription for a tablet to be placed in the monument stating the
object for which it is erected and recording the liberality of Judah
Touro and Amos Lawrence, and the successful exertions of the daughters
of those patriots whose memory we would perpetuate--donations and labor
which have placed in the possession of the Directors a fund sufficient
to complete this memorial of one of the most important events in the
history of our country." (Page 312.)
On June 17, 1843, a banquet was held in Fanueil Hall, to celebrate the
completion of the monument. Governor Marcus Morton, who was suffering
from indisposition, was unable to attend, but sent a letter which was
read. The two great benefactors of the Association were remembered by
the following: (Page 330.)
"Amos and Judah, venerated names,
Patriarch and Prophet press their equal claims,
Like generous coursers running 'neck and neck,'
Each aids the work by giving it a _check_.
Christian and Jew, they carry out one plan,
For though of different faiths each is in heart a MAN."
STATUE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, 1876.
One hundred years elapse, with their cares and joys, jeopardy and
success, and America celebrates the centennial year of its existence
by a grand exhibition in the city where is deposited the liberty bell
that proclaimed "liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof." The massive engine that moves obedient machinery sings a pæan
to the Republic!
The nimble shuttle and the agile loom weave chaplets and trophies!
Lightning-flashes leap from fathomless seas and speak with living fire
congratulations of emperors, kings, and potentates! Human handicrafts,
from Occident to Orient, delve and build, and fuse and shape tributes
of felicitation to the glory and honor of praise, aye, even worship, of
the land of Washington!
Fairmount Park blazes with the light of human advancement in science
and art, literature, education and religion; and, with humility be
it stated, no portion of God's footstool is more to be credited with
aiding and nurturing the progress of the century than the land of
Washington and Jefferson and Franklin.
There, on the Centennial grounds, the Israelites of the United States,
through one of their organizations, "the Sons of the Covenant," placed
their homage. It is in the shape of a group of statuary in Carrara
marble styled
_RELIGIOUS LIBERTY._
It was executed in Rome, by one of their own people, Moses Ezekiel,
a native of Richmond, Virginia. Upon the pedestal is an inscription,
neither narrow in scope nor sectarian in spirit. The promoters of this
tribute felt the eloquence of the Bill of Human Rights they desired to
typify, and simply transcribed the clause of the Constitution which
reads:
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION
OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.
An eminent and thoughtful foreigner, a statesman of world-wide fame,
passing through Fairmount Park, earnestly gazed at the marble group,
and exclaimed: "If the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 resulted in
this work of art and did nothing else, the American people should be
satisfied. I, the subject of a monarch, salute the Nation that makes
this creation possible."[23]
FOOTNOTES:
[23] The statue of Religious Liberty was erected by the Independent
Order of B'nai B'rith, pursuant to the resolution to that effect,
adopted by the General Convention of the Order at Chicago in 1874. Of
that Convention Hon. Simon Wolf was President, and the adoption of
the measure by the Convention, as well as the eventual success of the
undertaking through the active support of the various lodges, were due
mainly to Mr. Wolf's indefatigable efforts.--_Ed._
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812, AND IN THE MEXICAN WAR.
It is questionable whether the Jewish population of the American Union
kept pace with the general increase during the time from the close
of the Revolutionary struggle to the middle of the present century.
Certain it is that at a comparatively developed period, in 1824,
Solomon Etting estimated the Jewish population of Maryland as "at least
150," and that of the United States as "at least 6000,"[24] while
another experienced publicist, Isaac Harby, estimates it, as we have
seen, (note, page 12), at "not over 6000" in 1826. Up to the close
of the Eighteenth Century the Jewish immigrants to this side of the
Atlantic were derived almost entirely from the Sephardic stock, mainly
indeed from England and Holland and their colonial dependencies, and
these, from the comparative paucity of numbers at their source, could
not, in the very nature of things, have been very numerous. Of the
Jewish colonists of the time of the Revolution, some, who had remained
loyal to the mother country, went back to England or to the West Indies
after the war was over, and the number of these, though quite limited,
was but little overbalanced by the new arrivals. The emigration of the
German Jews remained altogether sporadic throughout the period of the
Napoleonic wars, because of the almost insuperable obstacles which
hindered their departure, and for a time thereafter they were content
to remain at home in view of the great political concessions which they
had gained from the German rulers in return for their valor and heroic
sacrifices in defense of the fatherland. The increase of the Jewish
population in this country was thus limited mainly to the surplus of
births over deaths until some time after the close of the War of 1812.
In the course of the reaction against the innovations of liberalism
which ensued after 1820, the hardly-gained political rights of the
German Jews were gradually curtailed or entirely withdrawn, and at this
time the Jews of the German maritime cities began to emigrate to the
United States in increasing numbers. It was not, however, until after
the revolution of 1848 and the beginning of steam navigation on the
Atlantic, that any considerable exodus took place. At the time of the
Mexican War, in 1846, the Jewish population of the United States was
probably not greater in proportion than that estimated for the period
of the Revolutionary War. In point of fact, at the time of the second
war with Great Britain, and likewise also at the date of the Mexican
War, the Jewish element composed as yet only a minute fraction of the
general population, and no very considerable number of Jewish names
are to be looked for in the army lists of those two wars. At the same
time it remains to be added that the lists here given for both the
wars referred to are not at all complete, comprising for the most part
only the names of such individuals as left notable evidence of their
presence in the ranks.
* * * * *
WAR OF 1812.
Private JACOB APPEL,
served in Captain Samuel Borden's Company, 4th Detachment,
Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB BACHMAN and
Private SAMUEL BACHMAN,
served in Captain Peter Nungesser's Company, 2nd Regiment,
Volunteer Light Infantry, Pennsylvania.
Brigadier-General JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD,
in command of Military District No. 4, embracing Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Western New Jersey.
[_His military record is included in the list of Jewish soldiers in
the American Revolutionary War_].
ISRAEL I. COHEN,
was a member of Captain Nicholson's Company of Maryland Fencibles,
and served in the defense of Fort McHenry.
MENDES I. COHEN,
brother of the above, volunteered for the defense of Baltimore and
also served at Fort McHenry during the memorable bombardment.
Sergeant SAMUEL GOODMAN,
served in Captain George Zieber's Company, 1st Regiment, 2nd
Brigade, Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremiah Shappel.
Second Lieutenant BENJAMIN GRATZ
served in company of Pennsylvania Volunteers commanded by Captain
John Swift, 1813.
Corporal ABRAHAM GUNSENHOUSER,
served in Captain Jacob Wentz's Company--3d Company, 52d Regiment,
Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB HAAS
served in Captain George Dinckey's Company, 18th Section of
Riflemen from Pennsylvania.
JACOB HAYS, } father and son served in N. Y. commands.
BENJAMIN HAYS, }
Private EZEKIEL JACOBS
served in Captain Florence Cotter's Company, 1st Detachment, 1st
Brigade, Pennsylvania.
Private HENRY LOEB.
served in Captain Jacob Ashey's Company, 1st Regiment of
Pennsylvania.
First Lieutenant ISAAC MERTZ
served in Captain Middleswarth's Company, Battalion of Riflemen
from Pennsylvania.
Lieutenant DAVID METZLER
Corporal DANIEL METZLER
served in Captain Nicholas Beckwith's (Fifth Battalion) Company
from Pennsylvania.
Private JOSEPH METZGAR
served in Captain Adam Diller's Company, 2nd Brigade, Pennsylvania.
Ensign SAMUEL MEYER
served in Captain George Hess's Company of Riflemen from
Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB MILLER
served in Captain Nickolaus Derr's Company, 101st Regiment, from
Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB MILLER
served in Captain John Christian's Company, 2nd Regiment from
Pennsylvania.
Private ABRAHAM MITCHELL
served in the Pennsylvania line.
MYER MORDECAI
served among Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private ISAAC MOSER
served in Captain John Christian's Company, 2nd Regiment from
Pennsylvania.
Sergeant JACOB MOSER
served in Captain J. Bakeoven's Company, 2nd Brigade, from
Pennsylvania.
Captain MYER MOSES
was commissioned from South Carolina.
Captain MORDECAI MYERS,
13th Pennsylvania Infantry; wounded at Chrysler's Field.
Colonel NATHAN MYERS
was in command of a brigade stationed near the City of New York.
Adjutant ISAAC MYERS
served in 1st Regiment of Pennsylvania.
JONAS PHILLIPS
served in Captain John Linton's Company in the Battalion of
Philadelphia Militia, under Colonel William Bradford, Pennsylvania.
JOSEPH PHILLIPS
served in the Pennsylvania line.
Private SAMUEL PHILLIPS
served in Captain Florence Cotter's Company, 1st Detachment of 1st
Brigade, Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB ROSENSTEEL
served in Captain John Williamson's Company, 2nd Brigade,
Pennsylvania Militia, under Brigadier-General Richard Crooks.
DAVID G. SEIXAS
served from Pennsylvania. He was instrumental in founding the
Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and won esteem by
his philanthropy. [_A sketch of his career is published elsewhere
in this work._]
Private ABRAHAM SHATZ
served in Captain George Zieber's Company, 1st Regiment, 2nd
Brigade, Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremiah Shappel.
Private SIGFRIED SOLOMON
served in Captain George Dinckey's Company, 18th Section of
Riflemen, from Pennsylvania.
JUDAH TOURO
enlisted as a volunteer in the American Army, under General Andrew
Jackson; was severely wounded in the battle of New Orleans, January
1, 1815; rendered many services as patriot and philanthropist, as
detailed elsewhere in this work.
Private SAMUEL WAMSER and Private MICHAEL WOLF
served in Captain George Zieber's Company, 1st Regiment, 2nd
Brigade, Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremiah Shappel.
Corporal SAMUEL WEISS
served in Captain John M. Buckius's Company, 2nd Brigade,
Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB WOLF
served in Captain Samuel Wilson's Company of Militia, from Buck's
County, Pennsylvania.
Private JACOB WOLF
served in Captain John Christian's Company, 2nd Regiment, from
Pennsylvania.
ISAAC DE YOUNG
Company A, 3d New Jersey Artillery, enlisted when only a boy;
wounded in the groin at Lundy's Lane in a bayonet charge.
Private ABRAHAM YUXSHEIMER
served in Captain Nickolaus Derr's Company, 101st Regiment, from
Pennsylvania.
* * * * *
MEXICAN WAR.
Sergeant ABRAHAM ADLER,
New York Volunteers; killed in action.
SAMUEL BEIN.
First Lieutenant LEVI BENJAMIN, Maryland Militia, 1846.
EUGENE JOSEPH CHIMENE,
served with Sam Houston, in the Texan War.
Sergeant JACOB DAVID, New York Volunteers.
JOSEPH DAVIS, Co. D, 12th Regiment.
General DAVID DE LEON
was born in South Carolina in 1822. In the Mexican War he twice
took the places of commanding officers who had been killed or
disabled by wounds. He acted with such gallantry and ability as
to twice receive the thanks of the United States Congress. In
February, 1861, he resigned his rank as Surgeon and Major in the
United States Army and was appointed first Surgeon General of the
Armies of the Confederacy.
Colonel LEON DYER,
Quartermaster-General of the State of Louisiana; subsequently held
the same rank under General Winfield Scott.
GABRIEL DROPSIE, Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.
HERMAN EHRENBERG
fought under Fannin at Goliad.
ALBERT EMANUEL,
in Captain Kimball's Company, 2d Regiment of Texas Volunteer
Cavalry.
S. EYTINGE, Maryland Militia, 1846.
MARCUS FLENDROWITZ,
wounded in action.
DAVID FRIEDMAN.
Third Lieutenant ---- GOLDSMITH, Maryland Militia, 1846.
JAMES HART, New York Volunteers.
WILLIAM HART, New York Volunteers;
lost a leg at Cherubusco.
Sergeant MARX M. HART, New York Volunteers.
Sergeant JOSEPH HENRIQUES, New York Volunteers.
Sergeant SAMUEL HENRY, New York Volunteers.
Corporal JACOB HIRSCHHORN, 1st New York Volunteers.
Surgeon J. HORWITZ, Maryland Militia, 1846.
PHILIP HORWITZ.
Colonel S. M. HYAMS.
SAMUEL ISAACS, Texas Army, 1836-1837 (Co. D, 10th Infantry.)
EDWARD J. JOHNSON
volunteered in Captain King's Company during Texas revolution;
killed at Goliad, March 27, 1836.
MARK KAHN, New York Volunteers.
DAVIS S. KAUFFMAN,
aide to General Douglas, wounded at the battle of Neches; was
Speaker of the Texas Assembly and advocated its annexation; was
member of Congress from Texas from date of annexation (1846) to his
death in 1851.
NATHAN KLUGAN.
---- KOHN, Texas Spy Company (at San Jacinto).
D. I. KOKERNOT,
fought at Anahuac; also at the Grass battles, 1835, and in Texan
War, 1836.
JACOB LEVA, New York Volunteers.
WILLIAM MALLOY LEVI.
Surgeon-General MOSES ALBERT LEVY,
in Sam Houston's Army, in service throughout the Texas-Mexican War.
Colonel Johnson's report of the capture of San Antonio, December
15, 1835, stated: "Doctors Levy and Pollard deserve my warmest
praise for their unremitted attention and assiduity."
Doctor ISAAC LYONS,
of Charleston, served as Surgeon-General under General Tom Green,
in the Texan War of 1836.
BENJAMIN H. MORDECAI,
served under General Fannin.
Lieutenant-Colonel ISRAEL MOSES,
promoted from Assistant Surgeon; served also in Civil War.
M. K. MOSES,
served under General Fannin.
JOHN MYERS, New York Volunteers.
PHILIP MYERS, New York Volunteers.
SOPPHE MYERS, New York Volunteers.
OTTO NEUBAUER, New York Volunteers.
HENRY PHILLIPS, New York Volunteers.
GEORGE RIELL, New York Volunteers.
ELIAS SCHOENBERG.
Lieutenant HENRY SEELIGSON,
Galveston Cadets, was appointed First Lieutenant of that Company
when the Mexican invasion of Galveston was threatened. In the
Mexican War of 1846 he enlisted in Captain McLean's Company,
and subsequently volunteered in Captain Bell's Regiment, which
was ordered to join the command of General Taylor, en route for
Monterey. He bore so conspicuous a part in the battle at that point
that he was sent for by General Taylor and highly complimented;
being offered a Lieutenancy in the 2d Dragoons. At the outbreak
of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, joining a
Cavalry Company commanded by Captain Woodward.
HENRY SIESEL.
ALEXANDER SIMM, New York Volunteers.
Second Lieutenant JOSEPH SIMPSON, Maryland Militia, 1846.
JACOB C. SOMERS, New York Volunteers.
Assistant Surgeon HENRY H. STEINER,
with rank of Captain.
ADOLPHUS STERNE,
joined the American settlers in their early struggles against the
Mexicans; took part in the Fredonian War; he was captured by the
Mexicans and sentenced to be shot, but was subsequently released.
He served in both lower and upper Houses of the Texas Legislature,
previous to annexation.
SELIGMAN STRAUSS.
Captain MICHAEL SZTYFFT,
served on the staff of General Zachary Taylor.
J. VALENTINE, Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina.
Sergeant ALEXANDER B. WEINBERG, New Jersey Battalion.
HENRY WIENER,
fought in the battle of Buena Vista.
A. WOLF,
killed at the storming of the Alamo, in the Texan War, December,
1835.
FOOTNOTES:
[24] Replies to inquiries of Colonel W. G. Worthington, quoted by the
latter in his advocacy of the enfranchisement of the Jews of Maryland.
("_Speeches on the Jew Bill in the House of Delegates of Maryland," by
H. M. Brackenridge, Philadelphia, 1829_).
UNITED STATES REGULAR ARMY.
The following list comprises names of Jewish soldiers on the rolls of
the standing army of the United States, from the earliest period of
the Republic to our present time. It is more or less incomplete, as
only those have been included whose identity has been sufficiently
established.
The roster includes the names of men in every branch of the service,
many with a distinguished and all of them with honorable records.
E. ABRAHAM, Co. H, 16th Regiment.
Surgeon MORRIS JOSEPH ASCH,
brevetted Captain and Major for meritorious services; served in all
from August 5, 1861 to March 31, 1873.
Post Surgeon DANIEL M. APPEL,
with rank of Captain; entered army in 1876, and now in service.
Assistant Surgeon AARON H. APPEL,
with rank of Captain; entered army in 1887.
J. BERGMAN, Co. B, 1st Dragoons.
DAVID BEHRENBERG, 18th Infantry;
served five years.
Assistant Surgeon M. BLOCK, 14th Infantry.
W. BLONDHEIM, Co. B, 14th Infantry.
WILLIAM HARRIS BOAS, Co. I, 3d Infantry.
ALEXANDER BORG, 2d Infantry.
ISAAC H. BRANDON, 12th Infantry.
I. M. BRANDON, 12th Infantry.
---- CHAPPELL, Co. C, 10th Infantry.
A. E. COHEN, Co. G, 17th Infantry.
GEORGE COHEN, 7th Infantry.
HERMAN COHEN, 13th Infantry.
Lieutenant HYMAN COHEN.
JOSEPH COHEN, Co. F, 1st Artillery.
LEOPOLD COHEN, general service.
MORRIS COHEN, War Department.
Sergeant MORRIS COHEN, 3d Dragoons,
enlisted as Private.
R. P. COHEN, 5th Infantry.
BENJAMIN DAVID, Co. I, 2nd Artillery.
HENRY M. DAVIS, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry.
Surgeon ABRAHAM DELEON.
SIMON H. DE YOUNG, 4th Infantry.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel FRANX MARK ETTING,
served from 1861 to 1868. Chief Paymaster of the Army from 1864 to
1867.
Brevet Captain D. I. EZEKIEL, 4th Infantry,
Promoted from private on account of bravery displayed in battle;
was seriously wounded.
MAX FELDMAN, 2nd Artillery.
JACOB GABRIEL, 5th Artillery,
killed at Cedar Mountain.
S. GERSTMAN,
served five years.
N. GLEISER, Co. G, 10th Infantry.
CHARLES GOLDSMITH, 8th Infantry.
ELLIS M. GOTTHOLD,
1st Artillery. Served five years; mustered out as Corporal; the
recipient of a medal from the Chamber of Commerce, New York City.
Lieutenant HARRY J. HIRSCH,
entered army in 1891; now in service.
THEODORE JOSEPH, Co. H, 10th Infantry.
C. G. JACOBS, 13th Infantry.
JACOB JACOBSON.
MICHAEL JACOBSON, Ordnance Corps.
OSCAR JACOBY, 2nd Artillery.
---- KOSMINSKI.
MAX LEPPOWITZ, Co. B, 14th Artillery.
BENJAMIN LEVI, Co. B, 14th Artillery.
Captain CHAPMAN LEVY.
HENRY J. LEVY, Hospital Steward.
JOHN LEVY, 19th Infantry.
ALBERT LIEBER, 10th Infantry.
AARON LIVINGSTIN, 2nd Infantry.
A. MANTNER, 4th Artillery.
SIMON MARKS,
served in General Custer's Cavalry Division.
Major ABRAHAM A. MASSIAS,
1st Lieutenant of Riflemen, 1808; Captain, 1809, afterwards Major;
promoted Paymaster in United States Army in 1820.
H. MENDEL, Co. A, 4th Cavalry.
M. MENDEL,
served thirty years in the United States Army, retiring as
Quartermaster Sergeant.
HEINRICH MEERHOLZ, Co. D, 10th Infantry.
Captain OTTO E. MICHAELES, Ordnance Department.
C. MILTENBERGER, Co. B, 9th Infantry.
Surgeon PHILIP MINIS.
Major ALFRED MORDECAI,
a recognized authority in the military world in the field of
scientific research, and in the practical application of mechanical
science to the art of war; he served in the Mexican War, and was
sent by our Government, together with General George B. McClellan,
and Major Richard Delafield, to witness and report upon the
operations in the Crimea. Major Mordecai was the author of "Reports
of Experiments on Gunpowder," an "Ordnance Manual," and other works.
Colonel ALFRED MORDECAI, JR.,
entered the army as Lieutenant in 1861; served in Civil War in
various capacities; has been an instructor at the Military Academy,
West Point; promoted for meritorious and faithful services; is now
in command of National Armory, at Springfield, Massachusetts.
J. F. MOSES, Battery A, 4th U. S. Artillery.
A. S. NELSON, Co. G, 15th Infantry.
1st Lieutenant GEORGE J. NEWGARDEN, M. D., now in service.
MICHAEL NEWMAN, 5th Cavalry.
MOSES NEWMAN, 13th Infantry.
Cadet SAMUEL NOAH, 1st Artillery.
JULIUS OPPENHEIMER, F, 5th Artillery.
Lieutenant LOUIS OSTHEIM,
entered army in 1883; has been in command of various forts and now
in service.
Sergeant OSCAR POLLACK, 2nd Cavalry,
served nine years; enlisted as private; wounded; killed in the
fight with the Sioux at Wounded Knee.
Sergeant ---- POLLOCK, 7th Cavalry.
Killed at Wounded Knee.
GEORGE POPPERS, 3d Infantry.
MAX REECE, Co. B, 4th Artillery.
A note attached to his discharge reads: "A sober, faithful,
intelligent, brave and excellent soldier."
1st Sergeant SAMUEL REIS, Company C, U. S. Cavalry.
Served ten years. Discharged for disability to serve any longer.
ADOLPH RESSIE, Co. K, 10th Infantry.
ISAAC RICE, 10th Infantry.
D. S. ROEDELSHEIMER.
E. ROSE, 10th Infantry.
---- ROSENFELD, Co. C, 10th Infantry.
DAVID ROSENHEIM, 1st Infantry.
JOHN ROSENTHAL, Ordnance Corps.
NATHAN SCHOENFARBER, Co. G, 14th Infantry.
ELIAS SCHUMACHER, Co. C, 2nd Infantry.
ISAAC SMITH, Co. H, 11th Infantry.
J. SOMMER, Co. E, 4th Infantry.
Major and Paymaster JUSTUS STEINBERGER.
[See _Record in Civil War List_.]
JULIUS STEINMEYER, 7th Infantry.
JOSEPH STURMER, Co. G, 10th Infantry.
Surgeon G. WAAGE.
ISRAEL WATERMAN,
in Civil War; transferred from ranks of 40th Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteers November 9, 1862.
MEYER WEILER, Co. A, 13th Infantry.
MARCUS WEILER, Co. F, 13th Infantry,
wounded at Vicksburg.
JOSEPH WENK, ---- Cavalry.
WILEM WEST, Fort Lyon, Colorado.
discharged for disability incurred in service--(1882-1884).
EMANUEL WODICK, Co. K, 10th Infantry.
ADAM WOLF, 2nd Infantry.
ISAAC WOLF.
L. W. WORSTMAN,
Chief Telegraph Operator, Military Department.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
The spirit of devotion to this country and its interests always
manifested by its Jewish inhabitants has not failed to leave its
impress on the rolls of the United States Navy. From the time of the
organization of that branch of the national defense many Jews have
been present in the service. That they did their full duty the records
indisputably show, and from the man before the mast to flag officer,
from stoker to chief engineer, sons of Israel have given their efforts
in behalf of the American cause. At the time of our Civil War their
ranks were especially reinforced, and at the present day a considerable
number of Jews are at posts of duty on the vessels of our navy.
Instances of personal distinction on the part of these defenders are
numerous, but specific reference need here be made only to the great
advance accomplished by Uriah Phillips Levy in behalf at once of the
Navy and of humanity at large, by the abolition through his influence
of the degrading practice of corporal punishment in the navy of the
United States. He had long opposed the brutal system of flogging,
and when promoted to the position of Flag Officer--the highest rank
registered before the Civil War--he used his authority to promote the
self-respect and well being of the sailors of his fleet. The records of
others besides Commodore Levy are creditable in a high degree, and all
comprised in the list are examples of men who devote to the cause in
which they are enlisted "their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor."
S. AMERICAN, U. S. Gunboat Seneca.
BENJAMIN ABRAHAMS, Acting Assistant Paymaster.
SIMON ARNBACH, Mexican War.
SOLOMON ASHER, U. S. Gunboat Wissahickon,
promoted to Acting Assistant Yeoman (1862-1863).
Paymaster JONAS BARNETT, U. S. Steamer Essex,
lost his life by falling from the rigging of his vessel while at
sea.
Lieutenant HENRY BARNETT.
Major DAVID M. COHEN,
fourteen years an officer of the U. S. Marine Corps; appointed
Lieutenant, 1855, subsequently appointed Major and placed on
retired list on account of physical disability.
JACOB DA SILVA SOLIS COHEN,
Acting Assistant Surgeon under Rear-Admiral S. F. Du Pont
(1861-1864).
Midshipman JOSEPH COHEN (1826).
GUSTAVE DUVAL, U. S. Steamer Pawnee.
WILLIAM DURST, U. S. Monitor,
one of the few survivors of the memorable fight between the Monitor
and the Merrimac. Admiral Worden expressed himself that Durst was
not only a brave, fearless and patriotic man, but eminently worthy
to be recognized by some action on the part of Congress (1862-1864).
CHARLES EDELMAN, U. S. Steamer Ohio.
JONATHAN MANLY EMANUEL,
Past Assistant Engineer, served under Commodore Mead. Twice
shipwrecked (1862-1891).
Purser GRATZ ETTING.
Captain HENRY ETTING,
entered as Midshipman, promoted to Purser, Navy Paymaster and
retired with the rank of Captain--1818-1861.
Lieutenant THEODORE MINIS ETTING,
was appointed Acting Midshipman when a little over sixteen years
old, promoted Midshipman, Ensign, Navy Paymaster, Lieutenant
(1862-1877).
Acting Ensign ISAAC N. GOLDSMITH,
Mate, Acting Ensign (1863-1865).
Mate NATHAN A. GOLDSMITH,
(1864-1866).
JEROME HAAS.
Lieutenant E. C. HAMBURGER;
promoted step by step, finally commissioned Lieutenant.
Captain LEVI MYERS HARBY (1793-1870).
At the age of fourteen he was Midshipman in the U. S. Navy. During
the War of 1812-1814, he was captured by the British and confined
for eighteen months in "Dartmoor Prison," from which he finally
escaped by swimming. In December, 1823, he served as sailing-master
on the U. S. Vessel Beagle. He served for fifty-two years under the
U. S. flag and rose to the rank of Captain. He participated in the
Texan War of Independence and in the Mexican War. He also served
in the Seminole War of Florida, and had command of a vessel in the
expedition against the pirates of Algiers and Tripoli. On leave of
absence he also fought in the Bolivian War of Independence. In 1861
he resigned his commission and entered the Confederate service with
the rank of Commodore, distinguishing himself as Commander of the
Neptune, capturing the Harriet Lane at Galveston, Texas. He was
subsequently in command of a fleet of Confederate gunboats on the
Sabine River.
SOLOMON HARBY,
died in the service.
J. HARRISON, U. S. Steamer North Carolina.
SAMUEL HERFORD, U. S. Steamers Richmond and Wyoming.
FREDERIC D. HENRIQUES,
Acting Second Assistant Engineer (1864-1865).
Midshipman ISRAEL ISRAEL,
midshipman (1813-1818).
Midshipman JOSEPH ISRAEL,
distinguished himself, died in the service (1801-1804).
JACOB JACOBS, U. S. Steamer Portsmouth,
was on board the Ida when she was blown up by a torpedo.
AUGUSTUS JACOBSON,
transferred from Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment.
Midshipman and Master HENRY M. JACOBY, Shenandoah, Wachusett,
Worcester, Yantic, Lackawanna (1866-1883).
Surgeon GERSHOM R. JACQUES,
promoted from Surgeon's Mate to Surgeon (1800-1808).
Mate SAMUEL JESSURUN (1863-1864).
S. S. KRAUSS, U. S. Steamer Raritan,
served four years.
C. C. KEANE.
DAVID J. KING, U. S. Steamer Wissahickon.
ISAAC M. KING.
NATHAN LANG.
ALEXANDER A. LAZARUS, U. S. Steamer Horace Beals, also Rhode Island.
HENRY LEVI, U. S. Steamer Princeton,
transferred to New Ironsides, Vandalia, etc. (1862-1865).
Master MEARS LEVY (1812-1813).
Second Assistant Engineer CHARLES H. LEVY (1857-1861).
Mate CHARLES LEVIN (1870-1874),
died during his service.
M. LINDHEIM, Pocahontas.
HENRY LYONS.
Commodore URIAH PHILLIPS LEVY,
one of the best known American naval officers of former days. At
the time of his death, 1862, he was the highest ranking officer
in the U. S. Navy. He served in the War of 1812, being the master
of the brig of war Argus, which ran the blockade to France with
Mr. Crawford, the American Minister to that country, on board. The
Argus destroyed twenty-one British merchantmen. In recognition of
his valuable services to the nation the Common Council of New York
City honored him with "the freedom of the city." Commodore Levy
vigorously opposed the application of the lash to seamen. Upon his
tombstone at Cypress Hill is recorded the fact that "he was the
father of the law for the abolition of the barbarous practice of
corporal punishment in the U. S. Navy."
Captain JONAS P. LEVY,
commanded the U. S. Steamer America during the Mexican War and was
active in the transportation of U. S. troops to Vera Cruz. At the
surrender of that port he was appointed its captain by General
Winfield Scott.
MARX MAAS, U. S. Gunboat No. 29.
JACOB MAAS, Gunboat.
A. MEYER.
HORACE MOSES,
served in the U. S. fleet during the Mexican War and was Secretary
to Captain (afterwards Admiral) S. P. Lee.
FLORIAN MOSS,
on Commodore S. F. Du Pont's blockading squadron Vermont and
Massachusetts (1862-1865).
Midshipman PHILIP MOSES.
JOSEPH MOSS,
Mate and Acting Ensign, (1861-1863).
Acting Master EDWARD MOSES,
(1862-1864); died while in service.
WILLIAM NOAH.
LOUIS NEWBERGER, U. S. Gunboat Pawpaw.
JOSEPH B. NONES, Guerriere.
In 1814, when seventeen years of age, he accompanied Henry Clay,
Gallatin and John Quincy Adams on the Frigate John Adams to Europe
on the Ghent Mission; severely wounded and obliged to resign from
the service (1812-1822).
Master NEWMAN MORRIS (1801-1803).
Captain HENRY BENJAMIN NONES, Revenue Marine,
promoted from 3d Lieutenant; served from 1831; died in 1868.
Chief Engineer HENRY BEAUCHAMP NONES,
served on various vessels; rose from Second Assistant Engineer; has
served since 1853.
Midshipman JEFFERSON H. NONES, 1840-1846.
Second Assistant Engineer WASHINGTON H. NONES (1850-1853),
died while in service.
Midshipman ABRAM PHILLIPS (1812-1813).
Drowned, 1813.
Paymaster EMANUEL J. PHILLIPS.
Captain ISAAC PHILLIPS (1798-1799).
Assistant Surgeon MANUEL PHILLIPS (1809-1824).
SOLOMON PINHEIRO, Juniata.
Wounded in the attack on Fort Fisher (1863-1866).
MILTON JOSEPH ROSENAU,
Past Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service.
Acting Ensign ALBERT P. SAMPSON (1862-1865).
Acting Ensign ISAAC P. SAMPSON (1863-1865).
J. SCHLESINGER, U. S. Steamer Pocahontas.
M. J. SIESEL, U. S. Steamer Hartford.
Sergeant SIEGMUND SILVERBURG, U. S. Marine Corps.
Midshipman BENJAMIN SOLOMON (1809-1810).
Purser EZEKIEL SOLOMON (1814-1816).
CHARLES STEIN, Marine Corps,
Died of exposure in the service.
Lieutenant EDWARD TAUSSIG,
served fourteen years on sea and did seven years' duty on land.
CHARLES WIENER
served four years.
LEO WISE, U. S. Steamer Springfield.
A PAGE FROM THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
As a fitting prelude to the record of Jewish activity in the War of
the Rebellion, there may be cited here an episode in its history which
has had no counterpart in the course of the world's affairs. Recondite
and romantic incidents are present in the annals of all nations, and
the history of the Jewish people especially is fraught with many
striking instances of unhoped and unexpected deliverance from impending
calamity, but they were largely the outcome of times and conditions
widely at variance with those of the present day. The narrative of Haym
Salomon's sacrifice in behalf of American freedom and the cause of
human liberty forms a singular chapter in the annals of the American
Revolution. But a yet more remarkable incident, one that appears wholly
foreign to the _laisser-faire_ spirit of our modern time, and which is
likely in the future to centre a much greater degree of attention than
it has yet received, is a transaction that has but lately become part
of the history of the Civil War.
On October 2, 1863, the British Government seized in the shipyard of
the Lairds, at Birkenhead, two armored vessels which had ostensibly
been built for the government of China, but which, according to
constantly reiterated reports, had been built for the Southern
Confederacy in rebellion against the United States. The contemporary
chronicles of the Civil War contain at most only such reports of that
incident as became public in the course of the controversy over the
subject, but the inner details of the occurrence, notable enough even
in its most obvious features, remained for many years a diplomatic
secret until revealed by the then Register of the Treasury, Mr. L. E.
Chittenden, in his "Recollections of President Lincoln."
The two vessels had indeed been embargoed by the British Government,
but under conditions which had been settled upon by the advisers of
the Crown with the almost clearly manifest purpose of permitting the
vessels to escape, while at the same time apparently complying with
the requirements of international law and the representations of the
American Minister. The sympathies of the ruling powers in Great Britain
were strongly with the Southern cause; the fact that the success of
that cause meant the perpetuation of negro slavery, against which
the English people had constantly inveighed, was held by many of the
leaders of the party in power to be of small moment in comparison
with the advancement of British interests, which these leaders
believed would result from the disruption of the American Republic.
They were accordingly ready to take advantage of a virtual breach of
international comity and law, under cover of a technical compliance
with its provisions, and incur the risk of all the terrible outcome
of a war between the two great Anglo-Saxon nations of the world. That
such a war would surely have resulted if the two armored corsairs had
eventually been let loose upon this country, no student of history
can doubt. It was being busily fomented by that arch enemy, both of
England and America, Napoleon III., who had assiduously been seeking
an adequate pretext to recognize the independence of the Confederate
States. He was actively conferring with British parliamentary leaders
with the purpose of a joint intervention in our struggle, and if these
ships were liberated to prey upon our commerce, lift the blockade of
the Confederate ports, weaken the Federal power and strengthen that of
the Rebellion, he would then assuredly be able to build up his empire
in Mexico. That empire was already planted on the soil of the Mexican
Republic, and the triumph of the Southern cause meant the success
of the foolhardy and villainous undertaking which Napoleon III. had
established under Maximilian. If the outcome of British co-operation
for the disruption of the American Union were eventually to be a war
between England and the United States, it would but be further grist
for the mill of the French usurper.
From all of this procession of possible and unmeasured evils it appears
that the world was saved through the timely and powerful interposition
of a single will. It was the will of a man who was manifestly near
enough to the mainspring of affairs to be aware of its primary
movements, who was yet so hidden from public view that his action
would remain as secret as he himself determined it to be; whose purpose
was clearly in opposition to the motives of the ruling powers, and who
possessed the means with which to effect his purpose.
Who was it that so signally changed the current of the world's affairs?
Whose influence yet remains as mysterious as it was far-reaching? The
question has been often asked and still remains unanswered. He still
remains unnamed on the page of history. His position, his motive and
his means of action appear to be defined, and it was clearly with these
considerations in view that Mr. Chittenden wrote the letter which is
here subjoined. The "process of exclusion" to which he so pointedly
adverts leaves but very few among whom he is to be sought, and to the
almost unerring indication which Mr. Chittenden has given is to be
added a still nearer one which the author of the present work obtained
from another source. Miss Kate Chase, daughter of Salmon P. Chase, the
then Secretary of the Treasury, while assuring Mr. Wolf that the name
of the mysterious personage was unknown to her, was yet able to inform
him that the man was a Jew. That it was a Jew, one well known for his
outspoken admiration and love for our country as the home of religious
liberty, a man who was not of the unsympathetic government, nor of the
hostile aristocracy, nor of the jealous manufacturing class, might well
be surmised from all the circumstances of this remarkable occasion,
and his identity can scarcely be misinterpreted in the light of Mr.
Chittenden's indications.
The following is a copy of Mr. Chittenden's letter, which may well
serve as an author's preface to the chapter of his "Recollections" to
which it refers, in which the incident is narrated in detail, and which
we shall quote in full:
11 PINE ST., NEW YORK, May 7, 1892.
DEAR SIR:--
It would give me great pleasure to answer your letter of April 26th
and a large number of others on the same subject. You will readily
see that the name may be reached by a process of exclusion as
definitely as by its direct statement. The extraordinary character
of the incident did not occur to me at the time, or I should have
probably suppressed it. As it is I have no alternative but silence.
However, it gives me pleasure to say one thing. The experience of
an active life now drawing to its close has taught me that race
prejudices have no place in the heart of a true American, and I am
certainly not conscious that I have ever entertained a shadow of
them against any one of Hebrew origin. On the contrary I have found
much in the history of that persecuted race to respect and admire.
Illness has delayed this reply to your note.
Yours truly,
L. E. CHITTENDEN.
Mr. SIMON WOLF,
Washington, D. C.
A REMARKABLE EPISODE.
EXTRACT FROM "RECOLLECTIONS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS
ADMINISTRATION," BY L. E. CHITTENDEN, HIS REGISTER OF THE TREASURY.
(Chapter XXV, Pages 197-203. N. Y., Harper & Brothers, 1891.)
Mr. Charles Francis Adams (our minister) had for several weeks been
aware, and had communicated the fact to his government, that the
Messrs. Laird, extensive ship builders, were building at their yards
in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, two armored vessels for the Confederate
government. They were to be furnished with powerful engines, and
capable of great speed. When completed they were to proceed to a small
unfrequented British island in the West Indies, where they were to be
delivered to the agents of the Confederacy. They were then to receive
their armament, previously sent thither, take their crews on board,
and then set forth on their piratical cruises, after the example of
the _Alabama_. After sweeping our remaining commerce from the seas, by
burning and sinking every merchantship bearing our flag, they were to
come upon our own coast, scatter our blockading fleet, and open all the
Southern ports to British commerce, which would no longer be required
to take the great risk of breaking the blockade. This feat was to be
accomplished by vessels which had never entered a Confederate port,
nor, indeed, any harbor which was not covered by the British or some
other flag which protected the ironclads against pursuit or capture by
vessels of the United States Navy.
Greater danger than these vessels never threatened the safety of
the Union. In tonnage, armament and speed, they were intended to be
superior to the _Kearsarge_, and every other vessel of our navy. Their
armor was supposed to render them invulnerable. If the blockade was
not maintained, an immediate recognition of the belligerent character
of the rebels by Great Britain was anticipated. Even if that did not
take place, all the cotton gathered in Confederate ports would be
released and find a profitable market, while the old wooden vessels,
now principally constituting the blockading fleet, would not resist one
of these iron-clad vessels long enough for a second broadside.
The impending danger was fully appreciated by Mr. Adams. With his
accustomed energy, notwithstanding the secrecy in which all the
Confederate movements in Great Britain were shrouded, he had collected
and laid before the English authorities clear proofs of the rebel
ownership, and intended unlawful purpose of these vessels. He had even
procured copies of the contracts under which the Messrs. Laird were
building them, and had ascertained that payments on their account
had been made from proceeds of cotton owned by the Confederacy. He
had represented that the evidence furnished by him, verified by the
oaths of credible witnesses, was sufficient not only to justify their
seizure, but to secure their condemnation in the courts, and he had
insisted with a force apparently unanswerable, that it was the duty
of Great Britain to prevent the vessels from leaving the Mersey and
setting forth upon their piratical career.
But, unfortunately, the sympathies of the party in power in England
were not with the Union cause. It suited the view of of the
law-officers of the Crown not to interfere, and to excuse their
inaction by raising objections to the legal sufficiency of the
evidence. The situation was perfectly comprehended by the President
and his Cabinet, but remonstrance appeared to be unavailing, and the
departure of the vessels was expected at an early day.
Hopeless as the task appeared to be, neither Mr. Adams nor his active
agents relaxed their efforts for a moment. Their recent investigations
had been prosecuted with such energy that the minister had finally
been able to furnish the British premier with the sworn affidavits of
some of the officers and men actually enlisted in Liverpool, and other
English cities, for service on these vessels; that the advance payments
to these men had been made by Confederate agents, that the ships were
to leave the Mersey at an early appointed date for an island near
Bermuda; that their guns and ammunition had already been sent thither.
Mr. Adams had also secured the names of the ships' officers, with
copies of their commissions, bearing the signature of President Davis
and the seal of the Confederacy.
The last instalment of affidavits forwarded by our minister proved to
be more than the crown lawyers could digest. They covered every defect
named in their former objections; they could not be answered even by
a special demurrer. They were reinforced by the caustic pen of Mr.
Adams, whose arguments so clearly pointed out the duty of the English
government in the premises that it would obviously be regarded as
conclusive by every one but these lawyers, who possessed the exclusive
power to move the slow authorities of the customs to action. The crown
lawyers finally decided that the demand of Mr. Adams must be complied
with, and that an order must issue, prohibiting the departure of these
vessels from the Mersey until the charges of the American minister had
been judicially investigated.
There were, however, some incidents attending this most important
decision, which prevented its communication from giving to Mr. Adams
a satisfaction wholly unalloyed. The decision had been withheld until
the vessels were on the very eve of departure. The order must be
immediately served, and possession taken by the customs authorities, or
the vessels would escape. The crown lawyers, properly enough, observed
that the affidavits furnished by Mr. Adams were _ex-parte_--the
witnesses had not been cross-examined. If Mr. Adams should fail to
prove his charges by evidence which would satisfy the judicial mind,
and the vessels be released, the damages caused by arresting them might
be very heavy. It was a settled rule of procedure in the courts in such
cases to secure the payment of such damages beyond any peradventure.
The restraining order would, therefore, be issued, but it would not be
enforced against the vessels until these damages had been secured by a
deposit of £1,000,000 sterling _in gold coin_.
The situation was well known to be critical. Within three days the
vessels were to sail for their destination; if necessary, they might
sail forthwith. The cable was useless, broken or disabled--and
Mr. Adams could not communicate with his own government. Without
such communication he had no authority to bind his government as an
indemnitor, or to repay the money if he could borrow it. Even if he had
the fullest authority, where was the patriotic Briton who would furnish
a million pounds on the spur of the moment to a government which was
believed by the party in power in Great Britain to be _in articulo
mortis_? Unless, therefore, the crown lawyers supposed our minister to
have anticipated their decision by providing himself with this money,
they must have known that this condition could not be complied with,
and that they might just as well have declined to interfere. If they
had intended that these ships should not be prevented from making
their intended crusade against our commerce and our cause, no better
arrangement could possibly have been devised. It is not to be denied
that suspicions existed that such was their purpose.
But the unexpected sometimes happens. The event which prevented these
floating engines of destruction from entering upon their intended
work was as unanticipated as a miracle. It constituted, possibly,
the most signal service ever rendered by a citizen of one country to
the government of another. It was all the more noble, because it was
intended to be anonymous. The eminently unselfish man who performed it
made a positive condition that it should not be made public, that not
so much as his name should be disclosed, except to the officers of our
government, whose co-operation was required in order to transact the
business in a proper manner and upon correct principles. So earnest
was his injunction of secrecy that his identity will not even now be
disclosed, although he has long since gone to his reward.
Within the hour after the crown lawyers' decision, with its conditions,
had been made known to Mr. Adams, and when he had given up all hope of
arresting these vessels, a quiet gentleman called upon him and asked
if he might be favored with the opportunity of making the deposit
of coin required by the order? He observed "that it had occurred
to him that if the United States had that amount to its credit in
London, some question of authority might arise, or Mr. Adams might
otherwise be embarrassed in complying with the condition, especially
as communication with his government might involve delay; so that the
shortest way to avoid all difficulty would be for him to deposit the
coin, which he was quite prepared to do."
Had a messenger descended from the skies in a chariot of fire, with
$5,000,000 in gold in his hands, and offered to leave it at the embassy
without any security, Mr. Adams could not have been more profoundly
surprised. He had accepted the condition as fatal to his efforts;
he had concluded that nothing short of a miracle could prevent the
departure of the vessels; and here, if not a miracle, was something
much like one. He made no secret of the pleasure with which he accepted
the munificent offer, provided some method of securing the liberal
Englishman could be found. The latter seemed indisposed to make any
suggestion on the subject. "It might be proper," he said, "that some
obligation might be entered into, showing that the American government
recognized the deposit as made on its account; beyond that he should
leave the matter wholly in the hands of Mr. Adams."
The existing premium on gold was then about sixty per cent. in the
United States. It would have been largely increased by the departure of
these ironclads. The "five-twenties" or "sixes" of 1861, as they were
popularly called, were then being issued, and were the only securities
upon "long time" then authorized by Congress. The best arrangement
that occurred to Mr. Adams, and which he then proposed, was that
$10,000,000, or £2,000,000, in these bonds, to be held as collateral
security for the loan of £1,000,000 in gold, should be delivered to
the lender, to be returned when the loan was paid or the order itself
was discharged and the coin returned to the depositor. The proposition
of Mr. Adams was satisfactory to the gentleman, but he said that to
prevent the disclosure of his name the deposit should be made in coupon
and not in registered bonds. The coupons were payable to bearer; the
registered were required to be inscribed on the books of the Treasury
in the owner's name.
Mr. Adams then volunteered the assurance that these bonds, to the
amount of $10,000,000, should be transmitted to London by the
first steamer which left New York after his despatch concerning the
transaction was received at the State Department at Washington.
It was this assurance of Mr. Adams which the President and both of the
Secretaries desired should be made good. They regarded the faith of the
government as pledged for its performance, and that faith they proposed
should not be violated.
All the details of this transaction were not then disclosed. They
reached the government in private, confidential despatches from Mr.
Adams, some of them long afterwards. The despatch in question was
understood to be confidential; certainly that part of it which related
to the deposit and security proposed. It was necessarily brief, for
in order to reach the steamer the special messenger had to leave
London within a very few hours after the proposition of the deposit
was made. There was enough in it to show that an inestimable service
had been rendered to the country by some one to whom Mr. Adams had
pledged the faith of the nation for the transmission of these bonds by
the next steamer which left New York. There was no dissent from the
conclusion that the pledge of Mr. Adams, if it were in the power of the
government, must be performed.
* * * * *
Since the publication of the foregoing facts in _Harper's Magazine_
for May, 1890, I have been solicited by many correspondents to give
the name of the gentleman who offered to perform such a signal service
to our country. It must be obvious that nothing could give greater
pleasure than to publish his name, and to secure for him the enduring
gratitude of the American people. I have, however, a special reason
for my present determination not to disclose it, nor to permit myself
to speculate upon the consequences of the disclosure. When we were
informed that the emergency had passed, it became necessary to make
a change in the entries of this large amount upon the books of the
register. This was found to be a difficult matter, unless a plain
statement of the issue, to the gentleman in question, and its purpose
was made with its subsequent cancellation. This course I proposed to
Secretary Chase. He was decided in his opinion that the value of the
service would not have been enhanced if an actual deposit of the money
had been required, and that, as the gentleman himself had imposed the
obligation, he was the only authority who could possibly release it.
While I regarded his conclusion as incontrovertible, I did suggest that
our first duty was the official one, to our own obligation to conceal
nothing, and to make our official records strictly conform to the fact.
"We should have thought of that at the time," said the Secretary. "We
might have declined his offer, coupled as it was with the obligation
to conceal his name, but I do not remember that we considered that
question. Do you?"
"No," I said. "Nothing was discussed in my presence except the
possibility of compliance with his conditions to the letter."
"Then, I think, we must continue to keep his secret whatever the
consequences may be, until he releases us from the obligation," was the
final conclusion of the Secretary.
I am, I believe, the only survivor of those to whom this gentleman's
name was known. I have hitherto declined to discuss the question of his
name or its disclosure. I depart from my practice far enough to say
that I do not believe he was interested in the price of cotton, or that
he was moved in the slightest degree by pecuniary motives in making
his offer. More than this, at present, I do not think I have the moral
right to say. If I should at any time hereafter see my way clear to a
different conclusion, I shall leave his name to be communicated to the
Secretary of Treasury, who will determine for himself the propriety of
its disclosure.
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR.
The consciousness of the imperfect nature of the several rosters
included under our present head has been the only influence that has
detracted from the satisfaction which the preparation of this work in
general has afforded the author. This feeling has already been adverted
to in the introduction to this work and will not further be dwelt upon
beyond the hope that the present volume may become the forerunner of a
more complete and perfected result in the future.[25]
The unquestionably large proportion of Jewish soldiers in both the
Union and Confederate armies is vouched for by such statistics as
have been thoroughly verified and by the statement of many individual
observers. In this connection the following communications to the
author may well be quoted as having a definite bearing on this subject,
and as coming from sources whose authority is beyond question:
120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,
December 30th, '91.
MY DEAR JUDGE:
I have your favor of the 22nd instant, asking for some expression
of opinion from me regarding the bravery and faithfulness of Hebrew
soldiers in the War of the Rebellion. There were many Hebrews under
me while serving as Brigade and Division Commander; and, while the
great lapse of time renders it impossible for me to recall names
or recount specific acts of gallantry, I take pleasure in saying
that I always found the soldiers of Jewish faith as firm in their
devotion to the cause of the country they were serving as any
others, and ever ready to perform any duty to which they might be
assigned.
Yours very truly,
J. STAHEL.
TO HON. SIMON WOLF,
Washington, D. C.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, NEW YORK.
January 2d, 1892.
DEAR MR. WOLF:
It is impossible for me to do justice to those who served with me
under my command who are known to be of Hebrew extraction. I would
hardly be justified without their permission to give their names.
I had a Jewish Aide-de-Camp, one of the bravest and best, in the
first battle of Bull Run; he is now a distinguished officer of the
army, a man of high scientific attainment. I had another aide who
was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, a true friend and
a brave officer. Two of my brigade commanders, who answer to the
above description, one of whom you have mentioned, served ably and
faithfully at Gettysburg and in other great battles of the war. So
many of the German officers and men, the Poles and the Hungarians,
were of Jewish lineage that I am unable to designate them. I can
assure you, my dear sir, that, intrinsically, there are no more
patriotic men to be found in the country than those who claim to be
of Hebrew descent, and who served with me in parallel commands or
more directly under my instructions. I have always greatly esteemed
the Jewish people, and in fact, the highest hopes I have in the
great future are derived from him whom I think justly claimed to
be the spiritual king of the Jews. So far as bravery is concerned,
bravery often carries to rashness. History affords no example
superior to those of the Maccabees and other leaders of the Jews,
back to the time of Jacob, the prince, who prevailed with God.
Very truly yours.
OLIVER O. HOWARD,
Major General U. S. Army.
SIMON WOLF, ESQ.,
Washington, D. C.
* * * * *
Further testimony of a like character with reference to the Jews in the
Union Army might be adduced from numerous sources if space limits would
permit, but the following citations regarding the Jewish soldiers in
the Southern Armies are not only warranted by the occasion but by the
exceptionally interesting data which they contain.
[_From the Nashville American, May 25, 1894._]
"Among the delegates to the recent Convention of the B'nai B'rith
there were thirty who were old enough to take up arms during
the late war. Of this number twenty-five had shouldered their
muskets in defence of their country, twenty-four belonging to
the Confederate and one to the Federal Army. This shows that
the Israelite is as much of a patriot as any other man when the
liberties of his country are endangered. In this connection the
following letter will be read with interest."
"_Galveston, Texas, May 17, 1894._
LEO N. LEVI, ESQ., _Galveston_.
DEAR SIR:--
"My attention having been called by you to the published remarks
of a writer in disparagement of the patriotism and gallantry of
the Jew as a soldier, and having had the honor to command a force
composed to a considerable extent of Israelites, I feel impelled
by this attempted injustice to the race to give my experience with
them as soldiers.
"Under a commission from the Government I organized 'Waul's Texas
Legion,' upon the express terms that they were to leave the State,
cross the Mississippi River and join in the fray where the blows
fell heaviest and thickest. The Legion consisted of ten companies
of infantry, five companies of cavalry and two companies of
artillery. Two of the infantry companies had a large number of
Jews in their ranks, and the largest company in the command--120
men--was officered by Jews, and three-fourths of the rank and file
were of that faith. There were also a number of Jews scattered
through the command in the other companies.
"They were all volunteers, and I know there was not a Jew
conscript in the Legion. As soldiers they were brave, orderly and
well-disciplined and in no respect inferior to the gallant body of
which they formed a prominent part. Their behavior in the camp, as
in the field, was exemplary. No Jew in the command was arraigned
before a court-martial, and, in proportion to their numbers, there
were fewer applications for leaves of absence, and their regular
habits caused very few of their names to appear on the hospital
rolls.
"In battle, without distinction of race or religion, all were
apparently willing and eager for the contest. I will say, however,
I neither saw nor heard of any Jew shrinking or failing to answer
to any call of duty or danger.
"I regret I cannot go more in details, but am unwilling to permit
an aspersion that remotely may affect the Jews who served with me
to pass unnoticed, as, to a considerable extent, the reputation
won by the command and personally obtained by myself was acquired
by their conduct, courage and soldierly qualities. I state without
hesitation that in no attribute suited to the soldier, whether as
an officer or in the ranks, will the Jew suffer by comparison with
the best and bravest of our army.
"As these happenings were before your time, I jot down these
recollections that you may have the testimony of one Gentile to
attest the courage, endurance and patriotism of the Jew as a
soldier.
Yours sincerely,
T. N. WAUL."
* * * * *
The discussion of the question of Jewish participation in the Civil War
elicited the following expression from a Charleston newspaper:
"The list of South Carolina Jews who remained true to their country
and to their country's cause in the darkest hours and who proved
their fidelity and patriotism by laying down their lives upon the
field of battle could be greatly extended. Their names are graven
upon many a monument throughout the land, and their prowess in
arms is a part of the military glory of the country. As Montaigne
says, the virtue and valor of a man consist in the heart and in the
will, and by this rule the Hebrew soldiers of South Carolina may
be fairly judged. What they had they gave freely to the State and
on many a bloody field did they prove the high quality of their
courage. They possessed, what Napoleon called "the two o'clock in
the morning courage" and they followed the flag with superb loyalty
to victory and defeat. When the history of South Carolina's part in
the great struggle is written and the books are finally posted, we
are sure that the Hebrew soldiers of this State, who wore the grey
will have their full meed of praise."
* * * * *
Another communication which is at hand, originally made to one of our
Jewish weeklies, may also be quoted as affording an effective side
light on our present subject:
"From the beginning of the late war until its close I was connected
with the War and Navy Departments of the Confederate States as
a contractor for side arms and accoutrements. In this capacity
I became acquainted with the organization and direction of the
Army and Navy and also became well acquainted with the governing
officials of the State, War and Navy Departments.
"Shortly before the Fall Festivals of our Jewish observance in 1864
I came to Richmond, Va., and as usual, met my late old friend, the
Rev. Mr. Michelbacher. After receiving an assurance of my readiness
to aid him in the purpose which he outlined to me, he detailed his
request as follows:
"'There are right around here and in our other armies many Jewish
soldiers who would like to keep _Rosh Hashanah_ but especially
_Yom Kippur_ according to our law and ritual. I am trying to get a
furlough for these soldiers over these Holy Days, but do not know
how to go about it. Here is a petition to the Secretary of War;
you know him well; will you present it or will you go with me to
introduce me? or will you get Mr. Benjamin to recommend it?' I
informed Mr. Michelbacher that as far as Mr. Benjamin was concerned
it did not come within the scope of his special office; that if his
recommendation was needed I could pledge it, and that the whole
matter was for Mr. Seddon to decide. Next morning Mr. Michelbacher
and myself went to Mr. Seddon, who received us, as he did all
his petitioners, with kindness. He read the petition quietly and
talked the matter over with us for some time, even at more length
than the pressing duties upon him seemed to warrant. After mature
deliberation he spoke about as follows: 'Well, gentlemen, as far as
I am concerned I will give my consent, but must refer the matter
to the Adjutant and Inspector-General. Whatever he does, I will
sanction.' He thereupon wrote his endorsement on the petition and
Mr. Michelbacher and I took it up to General Cooper, who, like
Mr. Seddon, received us kindly, and with great interest discussed
the proposition with us. He would gladly, he said, grant the
furloughs, but, 'gentlemen,' he added, 'look, we have here a roster
of all our soldiers and we know, as far as possible from their
names, how many of them belong to your religious denomination, and
astonishing it is that we count about 10,000 to 12,000 Jews who are
serving in our Army. Now should I grant the furloughs you request,
you will readily see, that for the time being, it would perhaps
disintegrate certain commands in the field and might work to a bad
effect; besides, the commanders of the different army corps should
certainly be consulted. On the whole it would be impracticable, as
you, Goldsmith (turning to me) will readily acknowledge. In fact,'
he pleasantly added, 'you will admit that if your forefathers had
fought Titus on the Sabbath day, during the siege of Jerusalem they
most certainly would have beaten him. You see, therefore, I cannot
conscientiously grant your request.' So it ended, but we had the
satisfaction of having learned that out of the small number of Jews
then living in the South, it was believed that over 10,000 were
serving in the Confederate Army. Those who would not serve left
the country. For many of these latter I myself procured passports
and permits, deeming it better that they should leave quietly and
unmolested than that they should be forced into the ranks where
they would have made unwilling defenders of the country.
"I am still a living witness and can, from my own memory, give you
many names of gallant Jewish soldiers of the Confederate army.
I had ample opportunity to see and to know. Many a wounded Jew
have I met in the hospitals of Richmond and administered to his
wants, and many a Jewish soldier have I seen walking on his crutch
or having his arm in a sling, travelling to and from his command
during the war. And I know further that it was simply a sense of
loyalty to their homes and their neighbors that prompted them to
fight for the South. If not, they could readily have left this
country at any time as well as I myself could have done, had I
so chosen. But love for our adopted country kept us here and we
offered all we had in its behalf.
M. GOLDSMITH."
The closing paragraph of Mr. Goldsmith's letter is truly expressive of
Jewish sentiment. It emphasizes the fact that the Jew, while retaining
his racial and religious distinctiveness, identifies himself with the
people among whom he dwells, if he is not deliberately excluded from
the possibility of doing so. Were further evidence of this required
beyond the records of earlier times, a convincing proof can be found in
the presence of large numbers of Jews in both the Union and Confederate
armies throughout the Civil War.
It should not be overlooked that the profession of arms for its own
sake is not distinctively a Jewish trait; the business of war having
always been taken up as the means to an end rather than the end itself.
This phase of the Jewish character finds a significant expression in
the large proportion of Jewish combatants in both the Revolutionary and
Civil Wars. In both cases the issue was one in which they felt a deep
and abiding interest, and they manifested their earnestness in the most
positive manner by taking an active and determined part in the decision
of the issue. That interest was far from being prevalent during the
War of 1812 and the subsequent war with Mexico. The former lacked the
support of a large fraction of the people, being held by the Federal
party of that time to be a heedless and needless undertaking, which in
many respects it was, and the latter, the Mexican War, was regarded by
the anti-slavery Whigs as tending to aggrandize the slave power by an
extension of its territory. Both these wars were party measures, and
in both a decidedly smaller proportion of Jewish combatants took part
than would otherwise have been the case. Where home, or liberty or law
is at stake the Jewish people have never been chary of the uttermost
sacrifice, and the muster rolls of the armies in the great war between
the States afford the fullest evidence of their ample share in its
burdens and its sufferings.
FOOTNOTES:
[25] The numerous communications from correspondents in various parts
of the country, which are being received while this volume is in course
of completion by the printer, renders it altogether probable that the
author's hope will be realized. The information conveyed by these
correspondents, frequently too late for incorporation in the present
work, will be collated with the view to its eventual publication, and
all who feel an interest in our present subject, and who can contribute
such data as will further the correction of these records, are
earnestly requested to communicate their information to the author.
MEDALS OF HONOR.
(From a paper read by the present author before the American Jewish
Historical Society, Washington, D. C., December 26, 1894.)
On the 12th day of July, 1862, President Lincoln gave his approval to
an Act of Congress, authorizing the President to cause to be prepared
2,000 "Medals of Honor," to be presented to such non-commissioned
officers and privates as would especially distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in action, and by other soldierly qualities during the
war then in progress.
While I am not prepared to say how many soldiers of Hebrew faith were
honored with such medals, I can mention seven who have come under my
notice.
_First_, LEOPOLD KARPELES, Color Sergeant, of the 57th Massachusetts
Infantry, at the Battle of North Anna, distinguished himself by a noble
defence of the flag under a terrific fire from the enemy. Although
seriously wounded, he held the colors aloft until through weakness
from loss of blood he had at last to give them to a comrade. Sergeant
Karpeles has high testimonials from his superior officers for bravery,
daring and discipline, and is at present a clerk in the General
Post-Office Department.
_Second_, BENJAMIN B. LEVY, who enlisted at the age of sixteen as a
drummer boy, in the 1st New York Volunteers. He was detailed as Orderly
to General Mansfield. While on board the steamer "Express," carrying
dispatches to General Wool at Fortress Monroe, the vessel was attacked
by the Confederate gunboat, "Seabird." The "Express" with all on board,
was in imminent danger of capture, when young Levy saved the steamer by
cutting loose a water schooner which was in tow. For his prompt action,
Levy was highly complimented by Generals Mansfield and Wool. At Charles
City Cross Roads, two of the colors of his regiment were saved by him
from capture, for which act he was promoted on the field by General
Kearney to Color Sergeant of his regiment. At the expiration of his
term, he re-enlisted in the 40th New York (Mozart) regiment, and was
seriously wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. He was appointed by
President Lincoln to the New York Custom House.
_Third_, Sergeant Major and Adjutant ABRAHAM COHN, who enlisted as
private in the 6th New Hampshire Infantry. For distinguished services
he was gradually promoted to Adjutant; he served until the close of the
war. Some time after Adjutant Cohn received the "Medal of Honor," from
the Assistant Adjutant General's office, he was addressed the following
highly complimentary communication:
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
_Washington_, August 14, 1879.
The Medal, mentioned within, was given for conspicuous gallantry
displayed in the battle of the Wilderness, in rallying and forming
disorganized troops, under heavy fire; also for bravery and
coolness in carrying orders to the advance lines under murderous
fire in the battle of the Mine, July 30, 1864.
(Signed) S. N. BENJAMIN,
_Assistant Adjutant General_.
Adjutant Cohn has the most gratifying testimonials from his superior
officers. Before enlisting in the 6th New Hampshire he had served in
the 68th New York as a private and rose gradually to be captain. Owing
to sickness he was honorably discharged, being then, in the opinion of
the surgeons, unfit for further duty. Notwithstanding his discharge as
Captain, when strong and able again, he re-enlisted as Private, in the
6th New Hampshire, and rose to the rank of Adjutant.
_Fourth_, DAVID OBRANSKI, of the 58th Ohio Infantry, who received a
Medal of Honor for distinguished bravery and coolness under heavy fire
at Shiloh, Tennessee, and at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
_Fifth_, HENRY HELLER, of Company A, 66th Ohio Infantry. He earned the
Medal of Honor for daring bravery at Chancellorsville.
_Sixth_, ABRAHAM GRUNWALT, of Company G, 104th Ohio Infantry, who
earned his Medal of Honor, at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864 in
the capture of Corps headquarters' flag.
_Seventh_, Corporal ISAAC GANS, of the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, who for
bravery displayed on the battle-field was appointed escort to the
colors captured by the Third Division.
FAMILIES OF "BROTHERS-IN-ARMS."
[Compiled from a paper read by the present author before the
American Jewish Historical Society, Washington, D. C., December 26,
1894.]
One of the most remarkable facts developed by the records of our Civil
War, and especially gratifying because unsurpassed, if equalled, is the
spontaneous and cheerful alacrity with which our citizens of Hebrew
faith entered their country's service in the hour of its need. In a
number of families all the male members able to bear arms were enrolled
in the army. My list of these may not be complete, and there may be
other equally notable examples, but I here name only those which have
been definitely reported to me.
North Carolina is to the fore with a host of six militant brothers,
united in the cause which they held at heart as well as by the ties
of blood. They bear the titular name of the priestly brother of
Moses, and their devotion lends it new lustre. The list of these six
brothers-in-arms is as follows:
AARON COHEN,
JACOB H. COHEN,
JULIUS COHEN,
EDWARD COHEN,
GUSTAVUS A. COHEN,
HENRY M. COHEN.
Mississippi claims a set of five brothers in the field, but, remarkable
enough, one of these was arrayed on the side of the Union against his
four Confederate brothers, a fair example of the Jewish spirit of
loyalty to conviction. The following is the list:
EDWARD JONAS, 50th Illinois Infantry.
S. A. JONAS,
JULIAN JONAS,
Major CHARLES H. JONAS,
HON. BENJAMIN F. JONAS (of Louisiana).
South Carolina also had five brothers enrolled in the Confederate army.
Their names are:
PERCY MOSES, JR.,
JOSHUA L. MOSES,
HORACE MOSES,
J. HARBY MOSES,
A. JACKSON MOSES.
Georgia mustered a family of four, a father and three sons, bearing the
same historic name as their South Carolina comrades:
RAPHAEL MOSES, SR.,
RAPHAEL MOSES, JR.,
ISRAEL N. MOSES,
A. L. MOSES.
Arkansas furnishes an instance of three brothers, namely:
PETER COHEN,
JACOB COHEN,
PO'EL COHEN.
Another trio hail from the South, two from Georgia and one from South
Carolina:
ISAAC A. GOLDSMITH,
A. A. GOLDSMITH,
M. M. GOLDSMITH.
Virginia sent out another three:
LEOPOLD LEVY,
SAMSON LEVY,
SOLOMON LEVY.
Louisiana has also a list of three brothers on her muster rolls:
EUGENE H. LEVY,
JULIUS H. LEVY,
JOSEPH C. LEVY.
And yet another trio went forth from Alabama:
MORDECAI MOSES,
HENRY C. MOSES,
ALFRED MOSES.
This makes a total of nine families on the Southern side, embracing a
membership numbering thirty-five, of whom one was enrolled in the Union
army.
The preponderance of such instances in the ranks of the Confederates
is due to the fact that the Jews of the Southern States were, in a
much larger proportion than those of the North, natives of the soil
or residents of long standing. While the Jews were doubtless more
numerous at the North than at the South, they were, for the most part,
immigrants of a comparatively recent date, and therefore less intensely
imbued with the spirit of the conflict.
On the Union side, New York, the nucleus of the Jewish population of
this country, naturally furnished the largest quota of Jewish soldiers,
and among them were three bands of brothers; one of the families being
reinforced by the presence of the father. The roll is as follows:
First, a family of five:
LEOPOLD WENK,
AUGUST WENK,
JOSEPH WENK,
JULIUS WENK,
AARON WENK.
Second, a father and his three sons:
SIMON LEVY,
BENJAMIN C. LEVY,
ALBERT LEVY,
Hon. FERDINAND LEVY, Ex-Coroner and present Register of New York City.
Third, a trio of brothers:
ABRAHAM FEDER,
HENRY FEDER,
ADOLPH FEDER.
Pennsylvania also sent three Jewish brothers to the front:
LYON L. EMANUEL,
LOUIS M. EMANUEL,
JONATHAN M. EMANUEL.
From Ohio we have another list of three brothers who together took part
in the War for the Union:
HERMAN KOCH,
MOSES KOCH,
JOSEPH KOCH.
We have thus a list of five families on the Union side, containing
eighteen men, a total for both the Confederate and Union sides of
fourteen families sending fifty-three men to the war.
JEWISH STAFF OFFICERS IN THE UNION ARMY.
Assistant Adjutant-General MYER ASCH,
entered the service September 19, 1861, as 2d Lieutenant Company H,
1st New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers; promoted to 1st Lieutenant and
Adjutant, December 29, 1861, and Captain, March 24, 1862; served on
staff of Major-General John Pope, subsequently appointed Assistant
Adjutant-General to Major-General Kautz; also distinguished in
other ways; held civic honors, particularly during the Centennial
Exhibition of 1876 at Philadelphia.
Doctor MORRIS J. ASCH,
on staff of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan.
Major NEWMAN BORCHARDT,
enlisted as Private in Company K, 6th New York Volunteers; promoted
to serve on staff of Major-General Oliver O. Howard.
Captain ISIDORE BUSH, aide-de-camp to General Fremont.
Captain MAX COHNHEIM,
enlisted in the 41st New York; promoted with rank of Captain on the
staff of General Sigel.
Captain ---- DESSAUER,
on staff of Major-General Oliver O. Howard; killed at
Chancellorsville.
Rev. JACOB FRANKEL,
of Philadelphia, served as Chaplain of United States Hospitals
during the Civil War, by appointment of President Lincoln.
Captain EDWARD JONAS,
enlisted in Illinois on staff of Major-General Prentice.
Major M. LULLEY,
formerly on staff of Louis Kossuth, during the Hungarian Revolution
of 1848; rendered valuable services during the Civil War, under
direction of Secretary of War.
Colonel ISAAC MAY,
aide-de-camp to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania.
Sergeant LOUIS H. MAYER,
enlisted in the 27th Ohio Regiment, served on staff of General
Pope; also with Generals Rosecrans and Grant, taking part in
various campaigns.
Captain NATHAN D. MENKEN,
on staff of Major-General John Pope, as Commander of his
body-guard; he sacrificed his life by remaining in Memphis,
Tennessee, and tending to the suffering during a terrible
visitation of Yellow fever in 1878.
ISAAC MOSES,
Adjutant-General 3d Army Corps, staff of Major General Heintzelman;
subsequently under General Banks.
Captain JULIUS SPRING,
on staff of General Van Buren.
Lieutenant M. SZEGELY,
on staff of General Sigel.
Major JOSEPH FRANKLIN TOBIAS,
aide-de-camp with rank of Major to Major-General D. B. Birney
(April 14, 1862--May 16, 1864).
JEWISH STAFF OFFICERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
JACOB ABRAMS,
on staff of General Elzey.
Doctor I. BARUCH, Assistant Surgeon-General.
MARCUS BAUM,
on the staff of General Kershaw; enlisted as private; wounded
at first Battle of Manassas; mentioned in general orders for
distinguished bravery; killed at the Battle of the Wilderness.
Captain H. L. BENJAMIN, General Staff.
Honorable JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War.
General DAVID DE LEON, Surgeon-General.
The first surgeon-general of the Confederate Army. He was born in
South Carolina in 1822. In the Mexican War he twice took the place
of commanding officers, who had been killed or wounded and acted
with such gallantry and ability as to receive twice the thanks of
the United States Congress. In February, 1861, he resigned his rank
as Surgeon and Major in the United States Army and was appointed
Surgeon-General of the Armies of the Confederacy.
Honorable EDWIN DE LEON,
Special Confederate States Envoy to Court of Napoleon III.
Captain JOSEPH FRANKLAND,
on Staff of General Wheeler, 1st Tennessee Battalion of Cavalry;
entered as private; promoted step by step; Assistant Provost
Marshal.
Orderly EDWARD KAUFFMAN,
Staff of General Bagly, Green's Brigade.
N. KRAUS, Staff of General Miller.
Lieutenant ALEXANDER LEVY,
Richmond, Virginia; Staff of General Magruder; wounded at Big
Bethel.
Captain M. LEVY,
6th Arkansas, Staff of General Baxton Bragg; Enlisted Co. E, 6th
Arkansas.
Lieutenant M. J. MARCUS, Staff of General Benning.
VICTOR MEYER, Staff of General Barksdale.
Assistant-Adjutant-General J. RANDOLPH MORDECAI
entered the service of the Confederate States as private in the
Washington Artillery, South Carolina, December 19, 1860; shortly
afterwards was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, when transferred to the C.
S. Army, afterward assigned to duty as Assistant-Adjutant-General
to General White's Brigade Light Artillery until July, 1863, to A.
A. M., C. S. Army, and assigned to General Taliaford's Division.
Captain A. J. MOSES, Staff of General Hannon.
Major ALFRED T. MOSES, Staff of General R. Taylor;
enlisted Co. E, 6th Arkansas.
ALTAMONT MOSES, Military Telegraph Service.
F. J. MOSES, Assistant Surgeon.
Colonel RAPHAEL J. MOSES, Staff of General Longstreet.
Appointed chief commissary for the State of Georgia. Known to
Generals Lee and Longstreet as the "honest commissary." He turned
over thirty thousand dollars in gold to General Molyneux at the
close of the war on condition that it should be used for the
benefit of the Confederate soldiers and Confederate hospitals,
which was done.
General A. C. MYERS, Quartermaster General C. S. A.
Major J. M. NANEZ, Staff of General Longstreet.
Major ISAAC SCHERCK, Staff of General Hardee;
enlisted in Mississippi.
MORRIS STRAUS, Staff of General Jenkins;
enlisted in South Carolina.
JEWISH OFFICERS IN THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
Lieutenant BARNHAM.
PERRY DE LEON, South Carolina.
Captain L. C. HARBY, South Carolina.
When South Carolina seceded he resigned his commission in the
United States Navy and entered the Confederate service with the
rank of Commodore in the Navy and afterwards distinguished himself
in the defence of Galveston, when he commanded the Neptune at the
capture of the Harriet Lane, and later on when in command of a
fleet of gunboats on the Sabine river.
LOUIS P. LEVY, Gunboat Chicora, Virginia;
A midshipman at the age of fifteen.
Midshipman RANDOLPH LYONS;
detailed as Signal Officer on blockade running.
LAZARUS WEIL, C. S. Navy.
SIMON WEIL, C. S. Navy.
ISAAC MOISE, C. S. Navy.
Paymaster I. C. MOSES, Navy.
Lieutenant R. J. MOSES, Jr., C. S. S. Merrimac, Georgia.
Z. P. MOSES, Navy Department.
LISTS OF JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES DURING THE
CIVIL WAR, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO STATES AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.
ALABAMA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ABRAHAM, JACOB 3d Infantry
ABRAHAM, ISAAC 1st Artillery
ABRAHAM, JOSEPH B 2d Cavalry
ALTEMOUNT, SIMON C 12th Infantry
ABRAHAM, D. B 1st Cavalry
ALTMAN, ---- 12th Infantry
ABRAHAM, A. G 6th Infantry
BLOCK, MAURICE 27th Infantry
Killed at Seven Pines.
BEAN, LEWIS 33d Infantry
BAMBURGER, SOLOMON S., Major 6th Infantry
Wounded at Seven Pines; after which General
Johnston appointed him Private Secretary.
BLUM, ELIAS 10th Infantry
Wounded at Frazier's Farm.
BENEDICK, F. 3d Infantry
BERNSTEIN, P. Eufala Light
Artillery
BARWALD, M. G 6th Infantry
BARWALD, D. 3d Infantry
COHN, L. J. 3d Infantry
COHEN, LOUIS 4th Infantry
COLEMAN, ---- Sergeant 6th Infatry
CAHN, JACOB B 4th Infantry
COLLING, WILLIAM B 4th Infantry
CAHN, S. 3d Infantry
DANIEL, WILLIAM A 1st Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
DREYFUS, SAMUEL B 1st Artillery
EINHORN, AARON B 4th Infantry
EHLBERT, M. 21st Infantry
FALK, L. M. D 5th Cavalry
FISCHER, E. Captain A 12th Infantry
Promoted from private.
GOODMAN, HENRY A 10th Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, ISIDORE E 4th Infantry
GERSON, M. L. 3d Infantry
GERSON, A. 3d Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, I. B 1st Cavalry
GUTMAN, JOSEPH B 1st Cavalry
GRIEL, LOUIS 14th Infantry
GUTMAN, EMANUEL G 10th Infantry
HIRSCHFELD, JACOB E 14th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg.
HEYMAN, S. A 18th Cavalry
Wounded at New Hope Church; disabled from field
duty; on detached service until surrender.
HERZBERG, H. Lieutenant J 18th Cavalry
Killed at New Hope Church.
HEYMAN, ISAAC J 18th Cavalry
Wounded seven times; promoted on the field of battle
for bravery.
HAAS, SIEGMUND C 12th Cavalry
HARTMAN, JOSEPH 3d Cavalry
HIRSCHFIELDER, JACOB 5th Cavalry
Killed at Gettysburg.
HOFHEIMER, HENRY Washington Light
Artillery
HIRSCHER, E. 3d Infantry
HENLEIN, A. B 4th Infantry
HARRISON, JOSEPH A 1st Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
ISRAEL, I. D 60th Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
JACOBSON, JOSEPH A 42d Infantry
JONAS, ISRAEL 3d Infantry
Killed in action.
JACOBSON, ADOLPH B 20th Infantry
Wounded at Vicksburg, June 14, 1863; served balance of
time in hospital.
JOSEPH, LEONCE G. H Temple's Battery
and 7th Cavalry
JOSEPH, J. Lafayette Guard
JARETZKY, MORRIS G 6th Infantry
JACKSON,---- G 6th Infantry
KOHN, SOLOMON D 14th Infantry
KRAUS, LEE D 7th Infantry
KOHN, JACOB B 1st Infantry
KULEMAN, E. 3d Infantry
KARCHER, E. Captain A 12th Infantry
Promoted from private.
KOFFSKY, S. Lieutenant A 12th Infantry
Killed at Seven Pines.
KERN, SIMEON K 17th Infantry
KLEIN, LOUIS E State Reserves
KAISER, LAZARUS M. E State Reserves
KAHN, KARL 23d Infantry
KLEIN, ABRAHAM A 42d Infantry
LEVEY, ---- 3d Infantry
Lost a leg; subsequently killed.
L'ETONDAL, E. A 12th Infantry
LEVIS, LAZARUS 24th Infantry
LOEWI, HENRY E State Reserves
L'ETONDAL, F. Captain 12th Infantry
Promoted for bravery.
LOWENTHAL, JACOB 12th Infantry
LEWY, HENRY 3d Infantry
LEVY, B. M. 3d Infantry
LOBMAN, H. 3d Infantry
LEVY, SAMUEL 3d Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
LOEWI, SAMUEL E State Reserves
LEMLO, L. B 1st Cavalry
LEITER, I. B 1st Cavalry
LEVY, JULIAN C. E 3d Infantry
Killed at battle of Malvern Hill.
LEVY, SOLOMON 3d Infantry,
(Montgomery Blues.)
MOSES, MONTEFIORE, Surgeon
MOSES, MORDECAI}
MOSES, HENRY C.} Brothers Infantry
MOSES, ALFRED }
MEYER, HERMAN A 42d Infantry
MEETIF, S. A. 3d Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL Lieutenant 3d Infantry
MYER, MOSES B 1st Artillery
MYER, CHARLES A 42d Infantry
MYER, HENRY B 4th Infantry
MOOK, A. K 11th Infantry
MEYERBERG, L. 3d Infantry
MARKSTEIN, MAX C 5th Infantry
NEUBRIK, F. 12th Infantry
PEPPERMAN, MARX B 1st Cavalry
PICKARD, SAMUEL C 12th Infantry
PROSKAUER, ADOLPH Captain A 12th Infantry
Entered the Confederate Army as private; was
appointed Color Sergeant; rose to be Captain; was
wounded four times.
RICHMOND, CHARLES B 2d Cavalry
RICHARDS, JULIUS K 44th Infantry
Discharged 1862 for disability.
RAUFMAN, S. 11th Infantry
ROHOTSCH, ---- 3d Infantry
RICHARD, J. G 3d Infantry
RICHARD, AARON A 44th Infantry
SOLOMON, DAVID Colonel
Appointed by the Governor of Alabama, as
Aide-de-Camp, with the rank of Colonel.
STEINER, L. 3d Infantry
SUSSMAN, DAVID 27th Infantry
Killed at Seven Pines.
STEINER, M. 3d Infantry
STRASSBURGER, H. Lieutenant 3d Infantry
SUSSMAN, H. B 4th Infantry
SCHOENBACHER, H. B 1st Infantry
STRAUS, I. B 1st Infantry
Served until disabled.
SCHARF, E. B 1st Cavalry
SOLOMON, JOSEPH B 1st Cavalry
SULSBACHER, A. 4th Infantry
SCHALHOFER, PHILIP K 8th Infantry
STERNE, SAMUEL Eufala Artillery
Wounded at Atlanta.
STERN, JOSEPH 12th Infantry
STRAUSS, LEOPOLD Cavalry
Served three years until disabled by wounds.
SIEGEL, MOSES C 12th Infantry
Killed in action.
SOMENTHEIL, JACOB C 12th Infantry
SCHIFFMANN, JACOB { G 3d Infantry
{ A 44th Infantry
Killed at Seven Pines.
SIEGLE, ---- 3d Infantry
TURGUEIM, DAVID 3d Infantry
TANHAUSER, GUSTAV 23d Infantry
Killed in action.
ULFELDER, M. 3d Infantry
ULLMAN, WILLIAM A 8th Wheeler
Cavalry
WALDMAN, L. 3d Infantry
WEIL, D. 3d Infantry
WEIL, H. 3d Infantry
WAMBACHER, LOUIS B 20th Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg, June 14, 1863.
WOLF, MAX C 2nd Infantry
YOUNG, L. 3d Infantry
YARETSKI, JULIUS Lieutenant A 33d Infantry
Served four years; promoted from private.
ZADICK, ABRAHAM C 2d Cavalry
ARKANSAS.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
AUERBACH, A. K. 8th Cavalry
BURGAUER, I. Woodruff Battery
BURGAUER, E. Woodruff Battery
BAUM, HENRY Woodruff Battery
COHN, WOLF West's Artillery
COHEN, ALBERT 6th Infantry
DANIEL, DAVID 1st Infantry
DRYFUS, MARCUS 1st Cavalry
DRYFUS, THEO. 1st Cavalry
ERB, JACOB 1st Cavalry
ERB, S. 1st Mounted Rifles
FRANK, ISAAC 1st Cavalry
FLECHTER, J. G. Captain A 6th Infantry
FRANKLIN, SAMUEL 1st Cavalry
FOX, W. B 2nd Cavalry
FEBS, E. 6th Infantry
FRANK, I. 4th Cavalry
GANS, MORRIS Parson's Cavalry
GATES, DAVID A Woodruff Battery
Served four years.
GATES, FERDINAND A Marmaduke Command
Served four years.
GATES, ISAAC Ross Arkansas
Battalion
Served four years.
GOODMAN, HERMAN 1st Infantry
HIRSCHFIELD, HENRY A 5th Infantry
HINEMAN, M. L. A 6th Infantry
HEILBRONER, HENRY 3d Infantry
HOOVER, E. West's Artillery
KEMPNER, JACOB 3d Cavalry
KALISCHER, S. 1st Cavalry
KLEIN, ABRAHAM 3d Cavalry
KUHN, SIGISMUND West's Artillery
KEMPNER, JACOB 3d Cavalry
LEVY, JULIUS A 6th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
LEWIS, L. B 4th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY 34th Infantry
MEYER, GABRIEL 4th Infantry
MOCK, MOSES E 6th Infantry
MOOK, SAMUEL 6th Infantry
NEWMAN, MYER 19th Infantry
OTTENHEIMER, PHILIP 1st Infantry
OTTENHEIMER, ABRAHAM 1st Infantry
PFARFFER, PHILIP 4th Cavalry
POLLOCK, ABRAHAM 3d Cavalry
POLLOCK, M. 3d Cavalry
POLLOCK, LEO Woodruff's Battery
PFEIFER, PHILIP 1st Cavalry
RICH, RUDOLPH 6th Infantry
SIMMONS, JACOB 1st Infantry
STERN, SOLOMON 1st Cavalry
SAMUELS, J. 3d Cavalry
SIMMONS, HARVEY 1st Infantry
VOLLENER, LOUIS 4th Infantry
WINTERS, SAMUEL H 6th Infantry
WINTERS, MOSES H 6th Infantry
CALIFORNIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ALEXANDER, A. A 2nd Infantry
ADLER, L. 6th Infantry
BACHARACH, JOSEPH A 2nd Infantry
COHN, S. B. F 6th Infantry
COHEN, SOLOMON Corporal C 3d Infantry
Served three years.
DAVIDSON, SOLOMON 1st Cavalry
An officer of distinction made the following remarks concerning this
gallant soldier:
"Personally I know several Hebrews who served in the California
regiments known as the 'California Column' but in the long years that
have elapsed I have forgotten their names. They were all good, faithful
soldiers to the flag they enlisted to defend. One I remember, by name,
Solomon Davidson. Comrade Davidson belonged to a cavalry regiment; I
think it was the 1st California, ordered for service in Arizona, Texas
and New Mexico. That regiment has seen more hard service in the saddle
than any other I know of wearing Uncle Sam's uniform. Comrade Davidson
was a brave man, carrying dispatches and orders from one part of the
command to another, regardless of storms and dangers of Indian ambush
so often to be encountered in the Territories. Davidson was a loyal,
gallant soldier, and I am glad to be able to say this much for our old
Jewish comrades in arms. We knew no distinction on account of birth or
religion in the army, but we loved all loyal men who gave their lives
to the government in the hour of its need. Let me in conclusion express
my conviction that a comparison of services will not be determined
detrimentally to our Hebrew comrades."
FAUGHT, SOLOMON 1st Infantry
FOX, A. H 1st Infantry
FRANK, M. F 1st Cavalry
GUGGENHEIM, SOLOMON E 6th Infantry
HARRIS, DAVID M 1st Cavalry
Served three years.
HOFFMAN, J. D 1st Cavalry
HESS, LOUIS C 2nd Cavalry
HEUBSMAN, J. B. C 4th Infantry
KLAUS, MOSES B 2nd Infantry
LAMBERT, F. H. H 1st Infantry
LEVICK, L. H 1st Infantry
MILLER, LOUIS 6th Infantry
MEYERS, OTTO H 1st Infantry
MEYER, A. I 6th Cavalry
SOLOMON, E. H 1st Infantry
SIMON, EMIL A 2nd Infantry
SICHEL, EUGENE H 2nd Cavalry
SIMON, ISADORE G 6th Cavalry
SCHILLER, HENRY Sergeant A 2nd Cavalry
Entered as private.
TOKLAS, JACOB W. 2nd Lieutenant K 6th Cavalry
Enlisted as private; promoted for bravery.
TOKLAS, FERDINAND K 6th Infantry
Served three years.
ZACHARIAS, JACOB K 6th Infantry
Protecting United States Mail overland from Indian and
Mormon attacks and riot at San Francisco.
CONNECTICUT.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
COHEN, HENRY 7th Infantry
CLINE, SAMUEL E 26th Infantry
CANTROWITZ, SAMUEL D 10th Infantry
DETTELBACH, HARRY D 10th Infantry
DRYFUSS, CHARLES D 10th Infantry
HOSHLAND, NATHAN I 7th Infantry
HARRIS, HENRY D 10th Infantry
ISAAC, JULIUS D 10th Infantry
LAUBER, LOUIS D 10th Infantry
MORRIS, SIMON I 20th Infantry
NEWMAN, LEON B 3d Infantry
ROSENTHAL, SAMUEL 10th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, SIMON C 10th Infantry
STRAUS, MOSES 10th Infantry
SCHIFF, LUDWIG D 10th Infantry
WOLFSOHN, S. E 7th Infantry
WERTHEIMER, ---- D 10th Infantry
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
BEHREND, A., Doctor.
entered as Private, transferred to 2nd U. S. Regulars,
promoted to Hospital Steward, Army of the Potomac.
FREIRICK, CHARLES { B Turner Rifles
{ 8th Battalion
MUNDHEIM, LEWIS 8th Artillery
Junior Vice Commander Garfield Post No. 7, G. A. R.
FLORIDA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
COHEN, GUS Milton Artillery
DANIEL, M. A 1st Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
GEORGIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
AARONHEIM, D. D 49th Infantry
ABRAMS, J. J. 1st Infantry
ABRAHAMS, J. M. 49th Infantry
BAER, SAMUEL 6th Infantry
Served until close of war.
BENJAMIN, S. 51st Infantry
BROWN, M. D 2nd Battalion
BRANDT, ADOLPH 5th Infantry
BLOOMFIELD, ISAAC A 10th Infantry
BEAR, SAMUEL
Killed; buried in Jewish cemetery at Richmond, Virginia.
COLEMAN, ---- 51st Infantry
COHEN, SOLOMON 51st Infantry
CRONE, HERMAN A 20th Infantry
Sixteen years old when enlisted; taken prisoner at
Williamsburg.
COHEN, PHILIP A 8th Infantry
DREYER, LOUIS A. 1st and 63d
Infantry
DE YOUNG, HARRY 2nd Battalion
DAVISSON, D. 2nd Battalion
DAVIDSON, DAVID Captain 50th Infantry
EICHBAUM, JOSEPH 44th Infantry
Wounded several times.
ELKAN, M. 63d Infantry
EHRLICH, A. 1st Infantry
Wounded in action.
EBERHART, JACOB G 7th Cavalry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
FALKNER, C. B 4th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Hanover Court House.
FRIEDENTHAL, L. 1st Cavalry
FEUCHTWANGER, ---- 2nd Battalion
FOOTE, ABRAHAM 14th Infantry
FRIESLEHEN, JACOB D 4th Infantry
FRANK, J.
Killed; buried at Jewish cemetery at Richmond, Virginia.
GOLDSMITH, M. M. Lieutenant Home Guards
Killed near Macon, Georgia.
GREEN, WILLIAM 57th Infantry
GOODMAN, CHARLES 2nd Battalion
GANS, JACOB A 4th Infantry
GREENBAUM, JACOB 51st Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
GOODMAN, ISAAC 3d Battalion
GOLDMAN, EDWARD A 2nd Battalion
Subsequently Drill Officer of 38th North Carolina Infantry.
GEISENHEIMER, M. B 1st Infantry
GOODMAN, HENRY Sergeant B 14th Infantry
Enlisted as private; wounded in three actions--Harper's
Ferry, Chancellorsville and the Wilderness.
GOLDSTEIN, ---- 18th Infantry
Killed in action.
GOLDSMITH, I. Wellington Ranger
Died of fever contracted in camp.
HAAS, SOLOMON A 1st Infantry
Enlisted, 1861; when mustered out, re-enlisted
in 12th Artillery
HERTZ, J. H. I 2nd Infantry
HIRSCHLER, I. D 2nd Infantry
HARRIS, ELISHA Cobb's Legion
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York
HEYMAN, ISAAC D 4th Infantry
Wounded at Malvern Hill.
HAYMAN, CHARLES D 4th Infantry
General Phil. Cook introduced this soldier to General
Gordon at the reunion of the old brigade with the
words: "General, this was one of the bravest men
in my brigade."
HEYMAN, A.
Killed; buried at Jewish cemetery at Richmond, Virginia.
ISAACS, A. 46th Regiment
ISAACS, EMANUEL 2nd Battery
ISAACS, ISAAC 2nd Battalion
ISAACS, M. 13th Battalion
JONAS, SIEGFRIED I 8th Infantry
JACOBUS, JACOB H. Lieutenant 5th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
JACKSON, I. 51st Infantry
JACOBS, WILLIAM M. 5th Infantry
KOPPEL, JACOB 5th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
KAHN, MOSES 5th Infantry
KOHN, BERNARD Cherokee Artillery
KAUFMAN, SELIG A 8th Infantry
KOHN, JACOB 63d Infantry
LIPPMAN, JULIUS E 12th Infantry
LEVY, JACOB Sergeant 22d Infantry
Wounded; served until close of war.
LEVY, MORRIS 4th Infantry
LIPPMAN, LOUIS 8th Infantry
Wounded at Bull Run.
LEHMAN, A. 63d Infantry
LIPPMAN, JACOB 63d Infantry
LEVY, SIMON 6th Infantry
Served three years.
LEVY, NATHAN Lieutenant 5th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks; killed.
LEVY, JACOB Lieutenant 5th Infantry
Enlisted as private; killed at Petersburg.
LEON, MORRIS 44th Infantry
Promoted from private.
LEVY, DICK 10th Infantry
LEVY, M. D. 1st Infantry
LEISSER, L. A 4th Infantry
Wounded at the Wilderness.
LYON, LEONAREANDE, Colonel
LYONS, JAMES DE
Graduate of West Point; Adjutant of State Troops.
MOUNT, SAMUEL B., Lieutenant 9th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MARCUS, ---- 63d Infantry
MEINHART, ISAAC 63d Infantry
MEINHART, SAMUEL 63d Infantry
MORRIS, W. C 3d Battery
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
MEHLINGER, J. C 2d Battalion
METZGER, ISAAC A 2d Battalion
MAYER, GABRIEL 4th Infantry
MOSS, L. A. 4th Infantry
MARCUS, M. Captain 15th Infantry
Killed, October 13th, 1864; buried in Jewish Cemetery
at Richmond, Virginia.
MAGNUS, SOLOMON Cherokee Artillery
Killed at Resaca, Georgia.
MANNERS, JACOB I 8th Infantry
MEYER, BERNARD A 1st Infantry
Killed at Manassas.
MANES, E. H 8th Infantry
Color-bearer at 2nd battle of Manassas, and at Sharpsburg.
MEYER, SIMEON 5th Infantry
MAYERS, AARON Silver Grays
MORRIS, PHILIP Silver Grays
MAYER, ISAAC Major 5th Infantry
MEYER, LAZARUS 3d Infantry
MOSES, ---- Lieutenant C 2d Battery
MOSES, I. CLIFTON A 10th Infantry
MOSES, MONTEFIORE J. 2d Infantry
Promoted Surgeon.
MOSES, WILLIAM MOULTRIE 2d Infantry
MEHLINGER, M B 4th Infantry
MYERS, BERNARD 1st Infantry
Killed at Rich Mountain.
MERZ, LOUIS D 4th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg.
MOISE, EDWARD M. Captain A 10th Infantry
Enlisted in 7th Cavalry; served until surrender;
commanded the 10th; had three horses shot from
under him in one day; commanded the advance in
the Hampton cattle raid; captured 2785 head of
cattle in the rear of General Grant's army in
the fall of 1864.
MOISE, A. W. Lieutenant H 24th Infantry
Enlisted at the age of sixteen years as private in first
battalion of Maryland Cavalry; transferred to 24th
Regiment; wounded at the Wilderness carrying the
colors until disabled; promoted from the ranks.
NEWMAN, C. 49th Infantry
POPPER, I. 63d Infantry
ROSENBERG, I. 3d Infantry
Killed; buried at Jewish Cemetery at Richmond, Virginia.
RUSH, GEORGE W. Captain 22d Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
ROBINSON, A. 15th Infantry
Killed in action June 26th, 1863; buried at Jewish
Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
ROSENWALT, LAZARUS 3d Infantry
RUSSELL, PHILIP M. 1st Infantry
SHERLEIN, LEOPOLD 5th Infantry
STERN, ISAAC A 2d Battalion
Wounded at Gettysburg.
SCHIFF, JOSEPH C 2d Infantry
STERNE, LEVI D 4th Infantry
STERNE, ANSELM D 4th Infantry
Wounded by a shell.
SIMON, N. 51st Infantry
SEGAL, M. 50th Infantry
SYLVESTER, L. 5th Infantry
SARLING, SOLOMON 5th Infantry
SCHIFF, JONAS 44th Infantry
SCHIFF, P. 44th Infantry
STERN, JACOB 63d Infantry
TRIEST, JACOB 13th Battalion
WALLERSTEIN, H. 44th Infantry
WERTHEIMER, SAMUEL K 2nd Infantry
WEIL, JACOB 3d Infantry
WITTKOWSKY, DAVID 51st Infantry
WITTKOWSKY, ALEXANDER Lieutenant 19th Infantry
WARNER, L. Silver Grays
WERTHEIMER, HARRIS Carten Battalion
Artillery
WERTHEIMER, HENRY B 4th Regiment
WEISS, L.
Killed; buried in Jewish cemetery at Richmond, Virginia.
ZITTERBART, ---- 4th Infantry
MACON, GEORGIA, GERMAN ARTILLERY.
At the outbreak of the Civil War there existed in Macon, Georgia,
an Artillery Company named "The Macon, Georgia, German Artillery,"
composed entirely of American citizens, of German birth, about
one-third being of Hebrew faith. We give the names and positions of a
few only, remembered by a survivor.
NAME. RANK.
BINSWANGER, NATHAN 2nd Lieutenant
BINSWANGER, J. Corporal
BINSWANGER, G. Private
BINSWANGER, MOSES "
EINSTEIN, ---- "
FENDIG, ---- "
HOCHSER, ---- "
KAHN, ---- Orderly-Sergeant
MILLER, H. Private
NORDLINGER, B. Bugler
NORDWALT, A. Private
SANGER, A. "
SANGER, R. "
1st Camp, Harrison, between Savannah and Brunswick.
2nd Camp, Satilla, near Brunswick, Georgia.
3d Camp, Failfair, near Savannah, Georgia.
Under Brigadier-General Capers. The Company was subsequently
transferred to General Walker.
ILLINOIS.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ALEXANDER, ISAAC 8th Infantry
ASHER, JULIUS Sergeant B 9th Infantry
AUERBACK, SALOMON {10th Infantry
{31st Infantry
Served until the close of the war.
ABRAHAMSON, OTTO E 10th Infantry
ARNOLD, AARON B 12th Infantry
ADLER, CHARLES G 14th Infantry
ABRAHAM, AUGUST B 20th Infantry
ABRAHAM, WILLIAM 21st Infantry
Wounded at Stone River.
ADLER, W. C 30th Infantry
ABRAMS, SAMUEL 34th Infantry
ASH, DAVID L. 1st Lieutenant B 37th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
ABRAMS, FRANK A 39th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, FREDERICK Lieutenant 44th Infantry
ADOLPH, JACOB 44th Infantry
ARNOLD, ISAAC A. Captain A 46th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
ARNOLD, DAVID Captain 57th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
ABRAHAM, JACOB 67th Infantry
ASH, NATHAN 81st Infantry
AARON, G. A 83d Infantry
ABRAHAMSON, WILLIAM K 84th Infantry
ARNOLD, SIMON 92d Infantry
AARONS, GEORGE 120th Infantry
ARNOLD, JACOB 130th Infantry
ARNOLD, REUBEN E 131st Infantry
ADLER, FERDINAND 153d Infantry
ASHER, SAMUEL E 154th Infantry
AARON, JULIUS 156th Infantry
ADLER, HENRY 3d Cavalry
ARNOLD, ISRAEL M 3d Cavalry
Died in Service.
ALEXANDER, W. 4th Cavalry
Died in camp.
ABRAMS, HENRY Sergeant 4th Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
ABRAHAM, ALEXANDER 5th Cavalry
AARON, WILLIAM 10th Cavalry
ABRAMS, H. C 11th Cavalry
ACKERMAN, JACOB H 11th Cavalry
ARNOLD, BENJAMIN
Lieutenant 12th Cavalry
ARNOLD, ABRAHAM 17th Cavalry
ABRAHAMSON, J. 1st Artillery
ADLER, DANIEL Corporal Hershaw Artillery
ADLER, DANKMAR Corporal ---- Artillery
BEHRENS, A. 8th Infantry
BERLIN, DAVID B 8th Infantry
BLIND, PHILIP K 8th Infantry
BACHMAN, JACOB 8th Infantry
BENJAMIN, CHARLES A. 13th Infantry
BERNARD, GEORGE K 13th Infantry
BENJAMIN, W. A 13th Infantry
BRESLAUER, MORRIS K 19th Infantry
BRESLAUER, JOSEPH 19th Infantry
BEHRENDS, BERNHART 21st Infantry
BENJAMIN, JOHN K 22d Infantry
Served three years.
BLUMENTHAL, ISIDORE
Corporal K 24th Infantry
Enlisted as private;
served three years.
BLUMENTHAL, EDWARD K 24th Infantry
BAMBERGER, ALEXANDER K 24th Infantry
BAUM, BENJAMIN Corporal 25th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
BENJAMIN, JACOB 25th Infantry
BRUCKER, S. S. Lieutenant C 39th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
BAER, JOSEPH C 39th Infantry
BIEN, FREDERICK G 39th Infantry
BIEN, DAVID C. 42d Infantry
BAUM, HENRY 44th Infantry
BAMBERGER, V. 49th Infantry
BAUM, GEORGE 49th Infantry
BLUM, GUSTAV 57th Infantry
BAUER, FERDINAND E 58th Infantry
BERNHARD, JACOB 63d Infantry
Killed in battle.
BAMBERGER, SALOMON A 65th Infantry
BERNSTEIN, SAMUEL Sergeant K 67th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
BRUM, SAMUEL Captain 81st Infantry
Wounded at Guntown; promoted to Captain for bravery on
the battlefield; served three years.
BAUM, GEORGE Sergeant B 82d Infantry
BLUM, LOUIS 82d Infantry
BAUER, JACOB H 82d Infantry
BRAND, JACOB 82d Infantry
BREDE, CHARLES C 82d Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
BURGHEIM, HERMAN C 82d Infantry
BAUM, CHARLES 112th Infantry
BEHRENS, FERDINAND E 113th Infantry
BIEN, JACOB B 126th Infantry
BAUM, SAMUEL 142d Infantry
BRESLAUER, MORITZ Sergeant 147th Infantry
BAER, REUBEN B. D 4th Cavalry
BAUM, FRANKLIN 4th Cavalry
BAER, DANIEL M 7th Cavalry
BAUER, HERMAN 9th Cavalry
BLUM, CHARLES 16th Cavalry
Died of wounds.
BEHRENS, HEINRICH 16th Cavalry
BLUM, LOUIS 16th Cavalry
BLUMENBERG, LEWIS 2d Artillery
COLEMAN, ALEXANDER 8th Infantry
CORNELIUS, ADOLPH 9th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran; died of wounds.
CERFF, GEORGE 13th Infantry
Killed at Little Rock, Arkansas.
COLEMAN, ISAAC 15th Infantry
Re-enlisted after expiration of term.
COHN, J. E 18th Infantry
COLEMAN, HENRY 18th Infantry
CORNELIUS, SAMUEL B 26th Infantry
CAUFFMAN, ALBERT Lieutenant E 33d Infantry
COLEMAN, ISAAC D 42nd Infantry
COHEN, A. H 46th Infantry
COLEMAN, J. 56th Infantry
COHN, FRIEDRICH C 82nd Infantry
COHEN, HENRY K 82nd Infantry
COHEN, JACOB H 147th Infantry
COHEN, LOUIS 7th Cavalry
COHEN, WILLIAM 1st Lieutenant B 12th Cavalry
Promoted from Corporal.
DARMSTADTER, JACOB A 8th Infantry
DAVIDSON, HENRY 12th Infantry
Died from wounds.
DAVIDSON, SAMUEL, Assistant-Surgeon 14th Infantry
DE WOLF, HENRY A 15th Infantry
DAVID, DANIEL 18th Infantry
DANIELS, ABRAHAM H 29th Infantry
DAVIDSON, MARCUS L. G 35th Infantry
DANIELS, JOSEPH 35th Infantry
DAVIDSON, DAVID J. F 38th Infantry
Killed in action.
DAVIDSON, BENJAMIN T. Sergeant B 40th Infantry
DE WOLF, DAVID Captain 47th Infantry
Killed at the battle of Corinth.
DANIEL, JOSEPH 49th Infantry
DURST, JACOB G 57th Infantry
DANIELS, ALEXANDER 65th Infantry
DAVID, E. 65th Infantry
DAVID, LEASER A 65th Infantry
DANIEL, JACOB K 87th Infantry
DAVID, JACOB 97th Infantry
DAVID, ISAAC B 132nd Infantry
DANIELSON, ELOF I 132nd Infantry
DAVID, ISAAC Captain 151st Infantry
DAVIDSON, DAVID 5th Cavalry
DANIELSON, GUSTAV B 9th Cavalry
DE WOLF, WILLIAM B 1st Artillery
DANIELSON, AUGUST 1st Artillery
ERLACHER, MAX D 24th Infantry
ESSLINGER, JOSEPH 30th Infantry
ENGEL, FERDINAND H 43d Infantry
ENGEL, ASA 72nd Infantry
Wounded.
ENGEL, FRANK B 132nd Infantry
ECKSTEIN, LEWIS 3d Cavalry
EINDEN, SALOMON Lieutenant 12th Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
EHRLICH, WILLIAM 12th Cavalry
ENGEL, MORITZ 12th Cavalry
FRANKS, WILLIAM F 8th Infantry
FRANK, JOSEPH 10th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
FRANK, PHILIP 12th Infantry
FREEMAN, JOSEPH H 14th Infantry
FRANK, DAVID E. 21st Infantry
FRANK, FREDERICK 28th Infantry
FREEMAN, MOSES C 32nd Infantry
FRANKS, E. S. 39th Infantry
FRANK, CARL D 43d Infantry
Killed in action.
FRANK, HERMAN 43d Infantry
Badly wounded.
FRANKENBERG, ELI 46th Infantry
FRANK, SIMON C 57th Infantry
FREEMAN, J. A 66th Infantry
FALKENTHAL, ADOLPH D 70th Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, ISAAC 75th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB 76th Infantry
FRANK, I. A 82nd Infantry
FRANK, MEIER Captain C 82nd Infantry
FRANK, MORITZ C 82nd Infantry
FRANK, MAYER Captain C 82nd Infantry
Enlisted at Chicago; was elected Lieutenant of Company C of the
82nd Regiment, in which he served about two years, when he was
promoted to Captain. He was at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg from
first to last. Subsequently he was appointed Brigade Inspector
and ordered West. He took part in the battle of Wauhatchie and at
Missionary Ridge, commanding the 80th. He went with Sherman to
Knoxville to relieve Burnside. Captain Frank's deeds entitle him
to a place among the bravest Captains in the service of the United
States. When Captain Frank volunteered to dislodge Confederate
sharpshooters, his whole Company to a man followed him. It was
subsequent to this act that he was appointed Brigade Inspector.
Two horses were shot from under him at the first day's battle at
Gettysburg. He scouted for some time in Georgia, Tennessee and
Alabama against guerilla chief "Roddy."
FRANK, JESSE 86th Infantry
FRANK, ISAAC 104th Infantry
FRANK, DAVID Sergeant I 105th Infantry
FRANKS, WILLIAM 1st Lieutenant B 168th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
FRANK, ISAAC 118th Infantry
FRANKENBERG, BENJAMIN 119th Infantry
Died of wounds received in battle.
FRANK, EMANUEL 130th Infantry
FISHEL, SAMUEL 135th Infantry
FISHEL, DANIEL 135th Infantry
FRANKENBERGER, DAVID 150th Infantry
FRANKENBERGER, EPHRAIM 150th Infantry
FRANK, ISRAEL B 2nd Cavalry
FRANK, NOAH 3d Infantry
Died in the service.
FREEMAN, MARCUS 7th Infantry
FRANK, HENRY B 9th Infantry
FREUND, LUDWIG 13th Infantry
Died in the service.
FRANK, PHILIP 2nd Artillery
GOLDSMITH, DAVID H 7th Infantry
GREENWALL, DAVID A 8th Infantry
GOTTLOB, THEO. Lieutenant 9th Infantry
GLEISER, N. G 10th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, J. Corporal 14th Infantry
At expiration of term re-enlisted as a veteran.
GOTTLOB, ADOLPH G 14th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, GEORGE 14th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ALEXANDER 10th Infantry
Re-enlisted after being honorably discharged.
Wounded in action at Stone River.
GOLDSMITH, ALEXANDER Corporal F 19th Infantry
Wounded at Stone River, Kentucky.
GOLDSMITH, JONAS F 19th Infantry
Enlisted as private; re-enlisted after being
honorably discharged. Killed at Stone River,
Kentucky.
GOLDSMITH, ABRAHAM 24th Infantry
GOODMAN, DANIEL E 27th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, HENRY K 28th Infantry
GOTTLIEB, JOSEPH G 28th Infantry
GOTTSHALK, EMANUEL H 37th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JACOB I 37th Infantry
GREENEBAUM, SAMUEL C 39th Infantry
GREEN, S. W. 42nd Infantry
GREENWALT, SAMUEL 49th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, BENJAMIN F 70th Infantry
GOLDMAN, E. 71st Infantry
GOTTLOB, JOSEPH Captain I 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
GREENHUT, JOSEPH B. Captain K 82nd Infantry
Enlisted as a private at Chicago, April, 1861, in 12th Illinois
Infantry, being the second man on the enrollment list of those
who enlisted in Chicago for the war. He was promoted to Sergeant,
August, 1861; was with the 12th Illinois Regiment through all the
campaigns under General Grant, in Kentucky and Tennessee, up to and
including the Battle of Fort Donaldson, in February, 1862, at which
battle, while storming the Fort and just before its surrender,
he was badly shot in the right arm which caused his retirement
from the 12th Illinois shortly thereafter. In August, 1862 he was
appointed Captain of Company K, 82nd Illinois Infantry, in which
Regiment he passed through the various campaigns and battles in
Virginia, under Generals Burnside, Hooker and Meade. Captain
Greenhut participated in the memorable Battle of Gettysburg,
July 1st, 2nd and 3d, 1863. He was then transferred to the staff
of Brigade Commander Hecker, being appointed Adjutant-General
of the brigade. This brigade, after the Gettysburg Battle,
Rosecrans who, with his army, was surrounded at was transferred
to the Western army to relieve General Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The brigade had a severe battle at Wauhatchie, near Chattanooga,
in opening communications with Rosecrans. The same brigade also
took a prominent part in the battles of Mission Ridge and Lookout
Mountain, as well as shortly thereafter of that of Knoxville,
Tennessee. On the retirement of General Hecker, in February, 1864,
Captain Greenhut also resigned his position in the army; the
following communication being handed him on his retirement, by
General McGroarty, who succeeded in the command of the brigade:
"Headquarters 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 11th Corps.
WHITESIDE, TENN., February 28th, 1864.
_General order No. 9._
Captain Joseph B. Greenhut, of the 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteers,
having tendered his resignation, is, in pursuance of special order,
No. 55, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland, February 24, 1864,
relieved from duty as Assistant Adjutant-General of this Brigade, and
Lieutenant Rudolph Muller is announced as his successor. In parting
with Captain Greenhut, the Colonel commanding feels it both a duty and
a pleasure to bear testimony to his diligence, zeal and fidelity in the
performance of his duty in the office, as well as in the field, and he
regrets to see so excellent and brave an officer as Captain Greenhut
leave his command.
Matters of important character only could induce Captain Greenhut to
leave the army in which he served three long and hard years, taking
active part in all the most decisive battles east and west.
To be read on dress parade to the troops to-day.
By order of Colonel MCGROARTY,
Commanding Brigade and Post.
RUDOLPH MULLER,
1st Lieutenant and A. A. A. General.
Captain JOSEPH B. GREENHUT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, 3d Brigade."
In recent years Captain Greenhut was appointed by Governor Fifer one
of the three commissioners to erect a monument on the battle-field of
Gettysburg, in honor of the Illinois soldiers who participated in that
battle. He delivered the dedicatory address at the unveiling of the
monument, September 3, 1891, in the presence of Governor Fifer, and a
large multitude of veterans and representative citizens of the State of
Illinois, who visited the battle-field on that occasion.
The _Chicago Tribune_, of September 4, 1891, prints Captain Greenhut's
speech, as follows:
"Friends and Comrades: We are assembled here to-day on the spot
where, on the first day of July, 1863, our regiment stood in line,
at the beginning of the first day's memorable Battle of Gettysburg.
More than twenty-eight years have passed since that eventful
struggle, but our memory is refreshed and brightened when we cast
our eyes about us and view these familiar surroundings, and we are
impressed in part with the feelings which raged in our breasts when
we were formed into line on this field to stem the advance of the
Rebel Army. It was an herculean task to perform when we consider
that only a small portion of our army was in the field on the first
day of the battle, while the larger portion of Lee's Army was
concentrated on our front and right.
"None of us knew what a hot day's fight was before us when we broke
camp at Emmetsburg early on the morning of July 1st, and began our
march towards Gettysburg. We had not gone far when orders came to
move faster and to be prepared for an engagement. As we approached
the town of Gettysburg on the Emmetsburg road, we could hear the
first shots that were being fired on the cavalry skirmish lines and
soon thereafter received word that the First Corps, which was ahead
of us, was already engaging the enemy, and then came the sad news
that General Reynolds had been killed. We then moved double-quick
through the town to this field where our batteries were placed in
position, and at once opened fire on the advancing enemy. I was
detailed in command of two companies of our regiment to support
Dilger's battery, and I can bear witness to the effective work done
by that gallant battery in holding the enemy in check. We were
exposed to the fearful cannonade fire which the enemy opened in our
front, and by which we had several of our men wounded. We held our
ground for a long time against the large force in our front, but
later in the afternoon Ewell's corps flanked us on the right, and
as our numbers were still entirely too small to combat with the
overwhelming forces of the approaching enemy on our right, there
was no alternative for us but to retreat through the town and take
up a position on Cemetery Hill. It was in this retreat through the
town that our regiment suffered most severely, the rebels coming
in through the side streets, which compelled us to fight our way
through the entire town.
"Besides the killed and wounded we suffered in this street
conflict, a number of our officers were cut off and captured by the
enemy. It was a fearful struggle against great odds, and as our
regiment covered the rear of our brigade in that retreat it has
been a surprise to me that we were not entirely annihilated in our
endeavors to force our way through the town up to Cemetery Hill.
Each one of us can, however, vividly recollect the hair-breadth
escapes experienced on that occasion without any allusions on my
part. From Colonel Salomon, who had his horse shot from under him
in the street, down through the entire rank of officers and men,
none will ever forget that terrible day. As soon as we reached
Cemetery Hill, we felt that we were in a better position and could
resist any further attacks, if they should be made, and the rebels
evidently came to that conclusion, as they did not make any further
attempt that day.
"During the night we were reinforced by the remainder of our army,
which reached Gettysburg from different points and which brought
confidence and encouragement to us who had withstood the hardships
of the engagement of the first day's battle. When daylight appeared
July 2nd, we were prepared and ready for the second day's struggle.
"Early morning hours on the second day were spent in comparative
quiet, each army in full view of the other, and each waiting
for the other to begin the fight. The rebels, however, who had
possession of the town, had filled the houses standing on the
outskirts of the town, just below Cemetery Hill, with sharpshooters
for the purpose of picking off our officers, whom they could easily
spy standing or walking about on the hill. This had become quite
troublesome and General Schurz requested Colonel Salomon to send
a detail of about one hundred men to dislodge the sharpshooters.
I had the honor to command that detail, which was made up of
volunteers, and stormed those houses, driving out the sharpshooters
and keeping possession of the houses the balance of the day. In
making up this detail an incident happened which I shall surely
remember as long as I live, and I cannot refrain from referring to
it at this time. Brave John Ackerman, a private in my company, who
on every previous occasion was the first to respond when volunteers
were asked for to engage in some daring work, did not come to the
front on this occasion. I was much surprised at his action, and
stepped over to speak to him about it. He said to me:
"'Captain, I cannot go with you this time; I feel as though
something terrible was going to happen to me to-day.'
"He looked pale and despondent. Believing that he did not feel
well, I left him, after saying a few encouraging words to him.
Within an hour after I left him, Ackerman was killed, a rebel shell
cutting off more than half his head. His remains were buried on
Cemetery Hill, close to where he was killed. It is singular, that
he is the only one of our regiment killed at Gettysburg whose name
appears on any headstone in the National Cemetery.
"The great artillery duel, consisting of the firing of more than
200 cannon, which was the beginning of the second day's battle,
was especially severe on the exposed position occupied by the
Eleventh Corps on Cemetery Hill, and the rebels seemed determined
to dislodge us from our position, but were unsuccessful in their
efforts. All of us can recollect the myriads of shells and bombs
that flew in our midst and over our heads, dealing out death
wherever they struck in our ranks, and few of the headstones which
marked the graves in the old cemetery were left unbroken after that
shower of shells.
"The terrible charge the rebels made in the evening of the second
day to force us from our position on Cemetery Hill has passed
into history as one of the most desperate and bloody of this
memorable battle. The charge was made from the streets of the town
by the rebel brigade known as the 'Louisiana Tigers,' and it is
officially stated that out of 1700 men in that brigade less than
300 'Tigers' returned to the town after that charge. The third
day's battle was nearly a duplicate of the day previous, our
regiment holding the same position on Cemetery Hill and standing
the terrible fire of the enemy with the same bravery and gallantry
that had characterized our organization from the beginning. We
can all recollect how with frantic desperation the rebels tried to
dislodge us from the position we occupied, but all their attempts
were unavailing, and when the radiant sun sank behind the western
horizon after the third day's fight, the rebels signalized their
defeat by a hasty retreat southward. We can also vividly remember
how light-hearted and joyous we felt on that early Fourth of July
morning when we gazed on those fields and hills in our front which
only the evening before were full of life, covered with rebel
soldiers and cannon, and now looked deserted and forsaken. We then
first began to realize the great victory we had won, a victory
which I confidently believe was the turning point for the salvation
of this country. But while the face of every Union soldier on that
morning was glowing with the flush of heroism, there were but few,
however, who could pass without sad emotions over the fields which
were so thickly strewn with dead and dying that in some places it
was impossible to walk without stepping on some of the dead bodies.
But these are the consequences of war, and I sincerely hope it
may never again become necessary in this glorious country to call
out large armies and to bring such great sacrifices in order to
perpetuate our liberties and freedom. (Cheers.)
"It is not necessary to-day to eulogize the many brave deeds of
the officers and men of our regiment on this battle-field, as the
official records bear ample testimony on that subject, and I doubt
whether any regiment can show a better record for bravery than the
old 82nd Illinois. (Applause.)
"This monument which has been erected through the generosity
of the State of Illinois to commemorate the noble deeds of the
82nd Regiment will stand for ages as a tribute of a grateful
people to her sons, now living or dead, who participated in this,
the greatest battle which was fought during the war for the
preservation of the Union. (Cheers.)
"We, the surviving members of the 82nd Regiment, fully appreciate
this token erected in our honor by the State of Illinois and in
behalf of our comrades I desire to express through his excellency,
Governor Fifer, our sincere thankfulness for the same." (Applause.)
* * * * *
"Mr. Greenhut concluded by paying a handsome compliment to the old
Colonel of the 82nd, Colonel E. S. Salomon, and the ceremonies
closed with the recitation of a short poem in German by Lieutenant
John Baus, of Chicago."
GOODMAN, ABRAHAM 83d Infantry
GOODMAN, LEWIS 87th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, W 93d Infantry
Wounded in battle.
GOLDSMITH, J. 103d Infantry
GOODMAN, MOSES Lieutenant 109th Infantry
GOODMAN, JACOB 116th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH D 118th Infantry
GOODMAN, E. 120th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, DAVID 155th Infantry
GANS, HENRY C 2d Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, J. Corporal 4th Cavalry
GANS, LEVI 10th Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM 10th Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, G. W. I 14th Cavalry
GOTTHELF, JOSEPH Adjutant 16th Cavalry
Enlisted as private; promoted for bravery to 1st
Lieutenant and Adjutant. After being mustered out
re-enlisted in 4th Regiment, Hancock's Veteran
Corps; served as Quartermaster Sergeant.
GOTTHART, MORITZ E 2d Artillery
HAYS, BENJAMIN B 7th Infantry
HESS, JOSEPH A 8th Infantry
Severely wounded at Fort Donelson.
HAHN, MARTIN D 8th Infantry
HEINEMAN, HENRY A 9th Infantry
HAAS, FERDINAND A 9th Infantry
HEINEMAN, J. A 9th Infantry
HERRMAN, FRANK B 9th Infantry
HESS, ALEXANDER B 11th Infantry
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM A 12th Infantry
Killed at Fort Donelson.
HAYS, MOSES 18th Infantry
HESS, ABRAHAM 19th Infantry
Re-enlisted as a veteran.
HELLER, ADOLPH 19th Infantry
HERRICK, C. K. 19th Infantry
Died from wounds received at Elizabethtown, Kentucky
HELLER, ALBERT 19th Infantry
HAHN, CHARLES 22nd Infantry
HAYS, ABRAHAM Corporal C 25th Infantry
Mustered out as Sergeant.
HAYS, FRANKLIN C 25th Infantry
HAYS, DAVID C 25th Infantry
HAYS, HENRY 25th Infantry
HESS, JACOB Corporal A 20th Infantry
HAYS, MORRIS 33d Infantry
HAYS, LEVI 34th Infantry
HART, AARON 34th Infantry
HAYS, DANIEL 35th Infantry
HOFFMAN, ADOLPH Captain 39th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
HERRMAN, M. } 2 brothers 41st Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY } 41st Infantry
HEINEMAN, GEORGE A 43d Infantry
HERRMAN, LOUIS B 43d Infantry
HESS, JACOB G 43d Infantry
HEINEMAN, HENRY K 43d Infantry
HEILBRUN, JOSEPH 43d Infantry
HAHN, DANIEL 44th Infantry
Wounded and captured.
HESS, AARON B 46th Infantry
HAYS, MORRIS C 47th Infantry
HAYS, B B 54th Infantry
HAYS, LEVI 55th Infantry
HAYMAN, A. F 57th Infantry
HEINEMAN, JOSEPH A 58th Infantry
HEINEMAN, JACOB F 58th Infantry
HERRMAN, FRANK 59th Infantry
HART, ISAAC 63d Infantry
HIRSCH, JOSEPH F 64th Infantry
HIRSCH, JULIUS 64th Infantry
HAYS, JOSEPH 65th Infantry
HAAS, JOSEPH F 65th Infantry
HARRIS, CHARLES 66th Infantry
HAYS, ISAAC 66th Infantry
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM E 67th Infantry
HAAS, MORRIS 72nd Infantry
HAAS, ALEXANDER 79th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, LOUIS 80th Infantry
HERRMAN, JULIUS A 82nd Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB C 82nd Infantry
HESSBERGER, LEOPOLD C 82nd Infantry
HENSHALL, ALEXANDER C 82nd Infantry
HEYMAN, JACOB C 82nd Infantry
HIRSCHLEIN, LEOPOLD C 82nd Infantry
HIRSCH, L. C 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
HESSLEIN, ISIDORE C 82nd Infantry
HAHN, ISAAC 93d Infantry
HAHN, JACOB 93d Infantry
HIRSCH, AUGUST Lieutenant C 100th Infantry
HIRSCHBERGER, AARON Lieutenant 107th Infantry
HIRSCH, BENJAMIN 108th Infantry
HIRSCHBERGER, HERMAN 111th Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, JACOB H 117th Infantry
HERZBERGER, F. 117th Infantry
HEINEMAN, HENRY 120th Infantry
HESS, JACOB 120th Infantry
HARRIS, JACOB 130th Infantry
HARRIS, CHARLES K 134th Infantry
Served four years.
HOLZMAN, S. L. A 140th Infantry
HAYS, JACOB Captain 142nd Infantry
HARRIS, BENJAMIN Lieutenant 143d Infantry
HERRMAN, GOTTLIEB K 144th Infantry
HIRSCH, HENRY 152nd Infantry
HERZ, DAVID 156th Infantry
HART, AARON 1st Cavalry
HERRMAN, HERMAN 3d Cavalry
HIRSCHMAN, JOSEPH 3d Cavalry
HERRMAN, JACOB G 5th Cavalry
HAHN, HENRY K 7th Cavalry
HEROLD, HERMAN Lieutenant 11th Cavalry
Enlisted as private; promoted for gallant conduct.
HAHN, SAMUEL 1st Artillery
HART, LEVI Captain 1st Artillery
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
HERMAN, GOTTLIEB 2nd Artillery
HESS, HENRY 2nd Artillery
HYMAN, L. Chicago Board of
Trade Battery
ISAACS, JOSEPH F 8th Infantry
ISRAEL, SAMUEL 18th Infantry
ISRAEL, AARON Sergeant K 23d Infantry
ISENSTEIN, GEORGE Captain 24th Infantry
ISAACS, AARON 42nd Infantry
ISAAC, CHARLES 59th Infantry
ISAACSON, ISAAC 92nd Infantry
ISAACS, W. A. 117th Infantry
ISAAC, DAVID 119th Infantry
ISRAEL, W. 12th Cavalry
JACOBS, C. 8th Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN Corporal G 9th Infantry
Killed at Fort Donelson.
JOSEPH, JOSEPH H 10th Infantry
JACOBS, JAMES A 12th Infantry
JACOBSON, FR. D 12th Infantry
JACOBS, G. 18th Infantry
JACOBS, DANIEL Corporal H 25th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH N. A 26th Infantry
JACOBS, SAMUEL 30th Infantry
JACOBS, FR. 37th Infantry
JACOBS, ELIAS D 38th Infantry
JACOBS, J. B. 38th Infantry
JACOBS, BERNHART 39th Infantry
JACOB, PHILIP K 43d Infantry
JACOBSON, JACOB 44th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY K 47th Infantry
JACOBSON, JACOB 53d Infantry
JACOBS, ABRAHAM 53d Infantry
JACOBS, E. 56th Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN 57th Infantry
JACOBS, S. 62nd Infantry
Died in the service.
JACOBS, HENRY H 65th Infantry
JACOB, AARON 66th Infantry
JACOBS, SAMUEL F 78th Infantry
JACOBSON, A. I 82nd Infantry
JACOBS, WILLIAM 93d Infantry
Died in the field.
JACOBSON, CHARLES 94th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH C 98th Infantry
JACOBS, AARON 98th Infantry
JACOBS, SAMUEL E 98th Infantry
JACOBS, W. Corporal 103d Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH 133d Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY C. C 134th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH E. 143d Infantry
JONAS, EDWARD Captain 149th Infantry
JULIAN, DAVID 153d Infantry
JACOBS, CHARLES 2nd Cavalry
JACOBS, J. 3d Cavalry
JACOBS, JOSEPH, JR. H 9th Cavalry
JACOBSON, J. 9th Cavalry
JACOBS, CHARLES H 11th Cavalry
JACOBS, CHARLES Corporal F 11th Cavalry
JACOBS, HENRY 11th Cavalry
JACOBS, ALEXANDER 12th Cavalry
JACOBS, BERNHARD 12th Cavalry
JACOBS, A. 15th Cavalry
JACOBS, DAVID F. A 1st Artillery
JACOBS, JACOB G 1st Artillery
JACOBS, DAVID M. 2nd Artillery
JACOBS, DANIEL W. 2nd Artillery
JACOBS, DANIEL Chicago Mercantile
Artillery
JACOBS, C. G. 13th United States
Infantry
JONAS, EDWARD Major 50th Infantry
Enlisted as private; promoted to 2nd Lieutenant,
Captain and Major; captured at Shiloh.
KAHN, MOSES D 9th Infantry
KOHN, EDWARD H 12th Infantry
KURZ, ELIAS C 14th Infantry
KATZ, ELIAS C 14th Infantry
KUHN, GEORGE 16th Infantry
KAHN, HENRY 20th Infantry
KOHN, HENRY 24th Infantry
KAUFMAN, MORITZ 1st H 24th Infantry
Lieutenant
Promoted from Corporal.
KAUFMAN, JACOB K 24th Infantry
KRAUSKOPF, G. Sergeant A 39th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ISAAC Corporal 47th Infantry
KAUFMAN, REUBEN Corporal 54th Infantry
KING, LOUIS H 57th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JOSEPH 58th Infantry
KAUFMAN, LEVI Corporal I 68th Infantry
KOCH, HERMAN Sergeant F 82nd Infantry
KOCH, FRANK F 82nd Infantry
KOCH, GUSTAV H 82nd Infantry
KRAMER, SAMUEL C 82nd Infantry
KARMINSKI, JACOB G 88th Infantry
Wounded at Stone River.
KOHN, JACOB 95th Infantry
KAUFMAN, LEVI 106th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ISAAC 106th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ISAAC C. F 115th Infantry
KONIG, JACOB 132nd Infantry
KAUFMAN, JACOB 149th Infantry
KAUFMAN, PHILIP I 1st Cavalry
KAUFMAN, E. B. C 2nd Cavalry
KOHN, N. 3d Cavalry
KAUFMAN, PHILIP E 7th Cavalry
KONIGSTEIN, JACOB Corporal 7th Cavalry
Wounded in action.
KOHN, FREDERICK 8th Cavalry
KOHN, CHARLES 9th Cavalry
KAHN, FRIEDRICH H 13th Cavalry
KAUFMAN, BENJAMIN Sergeant 14th Cavalry
Died in the service.
KOCH, LOUIS C 16th Cavalry
KAUFMAN, MICHAEL 1st Artillery
KAUFMAN, MARTIN 2nd Artillery
KOCH, JOSEPH M. 2nd United States Veteran Volunteers
KOCH, LEWIS 2nd United States Veteran Volunteers
LEAVIT, LEVI G 3d Infantry
LESSER, SAMUEL B. I 8th Infantry
LEIB, HERMAN Major 8th Infantry
LEHMAN, JACOB Corporal 8th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
LEHMAN, REUBEN F 10th Infantry
LOESER, LEVI H 14th Infantry
LEVIN, CHARLES E 17th Infantry
LEVY, MICHAEL 19th Infantry
LANG, ADOLPH 19th Infantry
LEHMAN, ERNST A 20th Infantry
LUDWIG, OSCAR Captain 20th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
LEHMAN, FRANK 20th Infantry
Died in the service.
LEHMAN, JACOB 20th Infantry
LIEBERMAN, MARTIN 21st Infantry
Died of wounds.
LEVY, JOSEPH A 24th Infantry
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM 45th Infantry
LORCH, ALEXANDER 46th Infantry
LEHMAN, JOSEPH B 47th Infantry
LEHMAN, HENRY B 47th Infantry
LOEB, PHILIP 49th Infantry
LYON, JACOB F. 50th Infantry
LOUIS, LEVI 50th Infantry
LEHMAN, HENRY L. 1st A 59th Infantry
Lieutenant
LEHMAN, HENRY Corporal 59th Infantry
LEDERMAN, DAVID E 59th Infantry
LEDERMAN, DANIEL E 59th Infantry
LEHMAN, J. 70th Infantry
LOEB, WILLIAM 2nd C 82nd Infantry
Lieutenant
LEVY, LOUIS C 82nd Infantry
LAMMFROMM, JACOB C 82nd Infantry
LASALLE, JACOB Captain C 82nd Infantry
LOEB, WILLIAM Captain C 82nd Infantry
Entered as private; promoted for gallant conduct.
LEHMAN, LEWIS B 86th Infantry
LICHTENBERG, JACOB 87th Infantry
LISTNER, LOUIS 93d Infantry
LEDERMAN, ABRAHAM F 113th Infantry
LEDERMAN, A. 130th Infantry
LANDENBURG, ABRAHAM 137th Infantry
LYON, DAVID M. Captain 138th Infantry
LORCH, JACOB 144th Infantry
LEIB, LEVI H. 2nd Cavalry
Died of wounds.
LUDWIG, DANIEL 3d Cavalry
LICHTENBERGER, ALFRED 3d Cavalry
LEHMAN, FREDERICK 4th Cavalry
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM 8th Cavalry
LOESER, JACOB 9th Cavalry
LIEBMAN, DANIEL 10th Cavalry
Died of disease contracted in camp.
LEHMAN, JACOB 12th Cavalry
LEVI, R. B 13th Cavalry
LEHMAN, FREDERICK F 13th Cavalry
LEHMAN, MICHAEL 2nd 13th Cavalry
Lieutenant
LEHMAN, MAX 1st 16th Cavalry
Lieutenant
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM 1st Artillery
MENDEL, NOAH E. Captain 7th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant; killed at Fort Donelson.
MYERS, LEO W. 1st 7th Infantry
Lieutenant
Killed at Shiloh.
MORRISON, SAMUEL 8th Infantry
MEYER, LEO 9th Infantry
MAYER, CHARLES G 12th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
MEYERS, HERMAN 12th Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID 7th Infantry
MEYERS, HENRY 8th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB 9th Infantry
Died in the service.
MOSES, FRANK C 9th Infantry
MEYER, MOSES 9th Infantry
Died in the service.
MEYERS, AARON H 9th Infantry
MYERS, DANIEL 9th Infantry
MEERHOLZ, HEINRICH D 10th Infantry
MARKS, A. L. K 13th Infantry
Served four years under the name of Charles Harris.
MORRIS, LEVI C 14th Infantry
MYERS, FRANK 14th Infantry
MOSES, GEORGE 15th Infantry
MENKEN, HERMAN 16th Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID 19th Infantry
MAYER, JACOB A 20th Infantry
MEYERS, SAMUEL 20th Infantry
MYER, ALEXANDER 20th Infantry
MYER, JONAS G 22nd Infantry
MAYER, A. Sergeant A 24th Infantry
MEYER, SAMUEL Sergeant 24th Infantry
MEIER, JACOB E 25th Infantry
MAYER, CHARLES Corporal F 24th Infantry
Captured; died in Andersonville Prison.
MEIER, ISIDORE K 24th Infantry
Captured; died in Andersonville Prison.
MEIER, LOUIS 26th Infantry
MYERS, JOSEPH 26th Infantry
Died of wounds.
MANUEL, JOSEPH G 27th Infantry
Killed in action.
MOSES, ALBERT Major 28th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
MEIER, CHARLES 28th Infantry
MANN, ISAAC Corporal B 30th Infantry
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
MARKS, ISAAC Corporal 30th Infantry
MEIER, JACOB 31st Infantry
MORRIS, SIMEON 31st Infantry
MORRIS, LEVI E. 31st Infantry
MEYERS, ABRAHAM A 33d Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg.
MYERS, JOSEPH Captain 34th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
MARCUS, FREDERIC 36th Infantry
MORRIS, SOLOMON 37th Infantry
MYERS, ABRAHAM G 40th Infantry
MANN, CHARLES B 43d Infantry
MEIER, FRANK 43d Infantry
MEYER, LOUIS K 43d Infantry
MANN, GUSTAV 44th Infantry
MEIER, LEWIS 44th Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH 1st Lieutenant 44th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
MOSES, LEWIS 46th Infantry
MOSES, WILLIAM 46th Infantry
MAYER, ISAAC H 46th Infantry
MYERS, JACOB 47th Infantry
MENDEL, DAVID H 47th Infantry
MORITZ, WILLIAM 48th Infantry
MAY, CHARLES Lieutenant 50th Infantry
MYERS, LOUIS 54th Infantry
MAYER, CHARLES Adjutant 58th Infantry
Promoted from private.
MEYERS, HENRY E 58th Infantry
MOSES, CHARLES F 58th Infantry
MAYER, BENJAMIN 59th Infantry
MAYER, ABRAHAM 62nd Infantry
MEYER, FREDERICK 63d Infantry
MEYERS, SIMEON 2nd Lieutenant 63d Infantry
MAY, AARON E. Adjutant 64th Infantry
MEYER, CHARLES Sergeant 65th Infantry
MEIER, CHARLES E. Corporal G 65th Infantry
MEIER, SAMUEL G 65th Infantry
MANN, MARTIN Captain 65th Infantry
MANTEL, A. E 69th Infantry
MEYER, CHARLES 69th Infantry
MEYERS, WILLIAM 69th Infantry
MEYERS, ALEXANDER 70th Infantry
MEYER, GUSTAV 72nd Infantry
MEIER, FERDINAND 72nd Infantry
MANTEL, CHARLES 73d Infantry
Killed in action.
MAYER, SAMUEL 76th Infantry
MARX, C. H. G 80th Infantry
MARKS, NATHAN C 82nd Infantry
MEIER, DANIEL C 82nd Infantry
MEIER, PHILIP C 82nd Infantry
MANNHEIM, E. C 82nd Infantry
MEIER, GOTTLIEB D 82nd Infantry
MAYER, WILLIAM D 82nd Infantry
MEIER, JACOB Corporal K 82nd Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
MEYERS, DAVID I 82nd Infantry
MANHEIMER, GODFREY C 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Atlanta.
MEYERS, ISAAC 83d Infantry
MANN, ISAAC Corporal 85th Infantry
MEYERS, SOLOMON 85th Infantry
MAYER, JACOB 87th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH F 87th Infantry
MEYERS, FRANK 89th Infantry
MAYERS, W. Lieutenant 92nd Infantry
MYERS, ISAAC 103d Infantry
MYERS, HENRY 111th Infantry
MORGENTHAL, JACOB 116th Infantry
MAYER, CHARLES 118th Infantry
MAY, ABRAHAM Lieutenant 130th Infantry
MYERS, LEWIS 131st Infantry
MORRIS, NATHAN D 131st Infantry
MEYER, GUSTAV D 134th Infantry
MAYER, HENRY 142d Infantry
MEIER, JOSEPH 142d Infantry
MOSES, REUBEN Lieutenant 146th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MOSES, AARON Sergeant 1st Cavalry
MOSES, REUBEN Sergeant 1st Cavalry
MEYERS, HENRY 2nd Cavalry
MANN, LEVI 7th Cavalry
MEYERS, MORRIS G 7th Cavalry
MEIER, HENRY 7th Cavalry
MEYERS, DANIEL 8th Cavalry
MAY, OSCAR 9th Cavalry
MEIER, HERMAN 9th Cavalry
Died of wounds.
MEIER, WILLIAM 9th Cavalry
MEIER, HERMAN 10th Cavalry
MEIER, AUGUST Lieutenant 10th Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
MAYER, MOSES A 12th Cavalry
MARKS, SAMUEL L 12th Cavalry
MEYERS, HENRY 13th Cavalry
MEYER, FERDINAND 13th Cavalry
MARX, FELIX Captain 13th Cavalry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MEIER, MOSES B 15th Cavalry
MANN, EUGENE Corporal H 15th Cavalry
MEYERS, CHARLES A 16th Cavalry
MAYER, J. B 16th Cavalry
MEIER, HERMAN 16th Cavalry
MARX, JOHN F. Lieutenant 16th Cavalry
MEIERS, NATHAN 17th Cavalry
MEYERS, DAVID C 1st Artillery
MEIERS, FRANK G 1st Artillery
MEYERS, HENRY Sergeant 1st Artillery
Enlisted as private.
MARX, LOUIS A 2nd Artillery
MOSES, FERDINAND K 2nd Artillery
MANN, LEWIS Chicago Mercantile Artillery
MEYER, HENRY Elgin Artillery
NEUMAN, ALBERT C 9th Infantry
At expiration of term re-enlisted in Company B; was
killed at Fort Donelson.
NATHAN, G. M. B 24th Infantry
NATHAN, MORRIS 24th Infantry
NEWMAN, JOSEPH F 42nd Infantry
NEWMAN, J. 66th Infantry
NIEMAN, MORITZ A 82d Infantry
NEWMAN, BENJAMIN 91st Infantry
NEWMAN, JACOB F 82nd Infantry
NATTINGER, S. L. E 104th Infantry
NEWMAN, JESSE 112th Infantry
NEWMAN, SIMON Captain 145th Infantry
NEWMAN, J. 4th Cavalry
NEWMAN, DAVID 13th Cavalry
Died of wounds.
NEWMAN, JACOB Corporal Springfield Artillery
OCHS, GEORGE C 9th Infantry
OCHS, FERDINAND H 24th Infantry
OPPERMAN, JULIUS 24th Infantry
OCHS, MARTIN 27th Infantry
OCHS, CHARLES Corporal B 71st Infantry
OCHS, FRIEDRICH 72nd Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, ABRAHAM 17th Cavalry
PHILLIPSON, AARON D 3d Cavalry
ROSE, E. E 10th Infantry
RESSIE, ADOLPH K 10th Infantry
ROSENBACH, MOSES G 10th Infantry
ROSE, DANIEL H 12th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, HENRY 21st Infantry
ROSENFELD, FRANK K 23d Infantry
ROSENTHAL, M. K 43d Infantry
ROSENTHAL, CHARLES 49th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, C. W. Lieutenant 57th Infantry
ROSE, DANIEL 58th Infantry
Mortally wounded at Shiloh.
RICE, JOSEPH 58th Infantry
ROSENBAUM, ALEXANDER A 75th Infantry
ROSENBAUM, WILLIAM 76th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, SAMPSON 82nd Infantry
ROSENHAUPT, JOSEPH 107th Infantry
ROSENBERG, S. 118th Infantry
ROSENHAUPT, SIMON I 142nd Infantry
RAPP, JACOB 146th Infantry
ROSENBERG, J. 3d Cavalry
RUBEN, FREDERICK 12th Cavalry
SIMPSON, ELIAS 7th Infantry
SIMPSON, DAVID K 7th Infantry
SIMONSON, ISAAC E 8th Infantry
At expiration of term re-enlisted as veteran; promoted
to Sergeant; killed at Fort Blakely.
STURMER, JOSEPH G 10th Infantry
SANDERS, FRANK 16th Infantry
SAMUELS, CHARLES H 19th Infantry
SIMON, JOSEPH G 24th Infantry
SUMMERFIELD, ELIAS 24th Infantry
SANDERS, JACOB 25th Infantry
SOLOMON, F. A 25th Infantry
STERN, JACOB 30th Infantry
SIMPSON, ISAAC I 31st Infantry
SIMPSON, WILLIAM I 31st Infantry
STERN, JOSEPH 35th Infantry
SIMONS, ADOLPH C 37th Infantry
SIMONS, MARCUS C 37th Infantry
SIMONS, LEVI Corporal F 37th Infantry
SIMPSON, JOSEPH 38th Infantry
SIMPSON, DANIEL 40th Infantry
SAMUELSON, ALEXANDER C 43d Infantry
SAMUELSON, CHARLES C 43d Infantry
SAMUELSON, CHARLES A. C 43d Infantry
SANGER, LOUIS 47th Infantry
SOLOMON, HENRY D 48th Infantry
SIMON, LEWIS 51st Infantry
SOLOMON, DAVID 52nd Infantry
SAMPSON, SAMUEL 53d Infantry
SIMPSON, SAMUEL Corporal 55th Infantry
SAMUELSON, CHARLES 55th Infantry
Killed at Kenesaw Mountain.
SOLOMON, D. 58th Infantry
STRAUSS, CHARLES E 59th Infantry
STINE, ISAAC 68th Infantry
SIMONS, ALEXANDER 78th Infantry
SOMMER, FRANK Corporal B 82nd Infantry
SALOMON, A. C 82nd Infantry
SIMON, GUSTAV C 82nd Infantry
STEINBACH, M. JOSEPH 82nd Infantry
SIMPSON, HERMAN Corporal 82nd Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
SHOENWALT, FRANK Lieutenant K 82nd Infantry
SALOMON, ABRAHAM C 82nd Infantry
SIESEL, SIEGMUND C 82nd Infantry
SALOMON, EDWARD S. Brigadier-General 82nd Infantry
Joined the 24th Illinois as 2nd Lieutenant, participating in
the battles of Frederickton and Mainfordsville, Kentucky. His
gallantry in action and general proficiency in tactics were the
cause of successive promotions till in 1862 Lieutenant Salomon was
gazetted Major of the regiment. Owing to disagreement among the
officers of the command of Colonel Hecker, Major Salomon and other
officers resigned and organized another regiment under the official
designation of the 82nd Illinois Infantry, of which Major Salomon
ultimately became Colonel. As a member of the 11th Army Corps
under General Howard, he participated in the campaign of which the
actions at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg were salient features.
He also took part in the battles round Chattanooga, Lookout
Mountain, and Missionary Ridge; fought in fact throughout all the
campaign in the Southwest and was ultimately brevetted to the rank
of Brigadier-General.
President Grant appointed General Salomon to the Governorship of
Washington Territory which position he held four years to the
satisfaction of the citizens and to the increased industrial
prosperity of the North-west.
* * * * *
As the subject of this sketch has also been prominent in politics
on the Republican side, his military service has frequently been
attacked by political enemies. To show with what little justice
these attacks have been made, we publish a few of the opinions
entertained by prominent Generals of the army:
"HEADQUARTERS 3D DIVISION,
August 20, 1863.
MAJOR GENERAL HOWARD,
Commanding 11th Corps.
GENERAL:
Of the part taken by my Division in the actions of July 2 and 3 at
Gettysburg, I have the honor to submit the following report: One of
the five regiments of the 1st Brigade, the 74th Pennsylvania, was
left with General Ames to strengthen his right wing; the remaining
four were directed towards a strip of woods on the right of the
Division, in which the firing had become very heavy, and where,
according to a report of some staff officers of the 1st Corps,
immediate aid was needed. Two regiments, the 157th New York and the
61st Ohio, were guided by one of their officers, while the other
two, the 82nd Illinois and the 45th New York, were led by my Chief
of Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Otto, of the 50th New York.
It had meanwhile become quite dark, the direction of the fight
being indicated by nothing but the sound of musketry. The regiment
entered the woods with the greatest determination, and drove the
enemy from our rifle pits.
It is my pleasant duty to mention as especially deserving, the
names of Lieutenant-Colonel Otto, who superintended this operation
with great judgment and courage, and Lieutenant Colonel Salomon, of
the 82nd Illinois, who displayed the highest order of coolness and
determination under very trying circumstances.
I am, General,
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) C. SCHURZ,
Major-General Commanding Division.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS 3D BRIGADE, 1ST DIVISION, 20TH ARMY CORPS.
NEAR KENESAW MOUNTAIN, GA.
June 26th, 1864.
ALLEN FULLER,
Adjutant-General, State of Illinois.
SIR:
I have the honor to respectfully request that you issue a Colonel's
commission to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward S. Salomon, commanding
the 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, belonging to his
brigade. I take pleasure in saying that it is my sincere belief
that Lieutenant-Colonel Salomon fully deserves this favor, not
only by his inherent ability and merit as an officer, but more
particularly by the gallantry and efficiency he has displayed
during this campaign. The regiment he commands is his best
recommendation, it being soldierly, gallant and thoroughly
disciplined. It will be accepted as a personal favor if you will
make special effort to obtain the approval of Lieutenant-Colonel
Salomon's commission as Colonel, and his muster as such by the War
Department.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. S. ROBINSON,
Colonel Commanding 3d Brigade,
1st Division 20th Army Corps.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS 1ST DIVISION, 20TH ARMY CORPS.
June 28th, 1864.
Respectfully forwarded, heartily concurring with the within
recommendation.
(Signed) A. S. WILLIAMS,
Brig. Gen. Commanding Division.
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HEADQUARTERS 20TH ARMY CORPS.
June 28th, 1864.
Respectfully forwarded. I fully concur in the within recommendation
Lieutenant Colonel Salomon has won the good opinion of all his
comrades by his great gallantry and good conduct, and it will be
but a just and grateful appreciation of his services to confer the
preferment upon him.
(Signed) JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General Commanding.
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HEADQUARTERS 3D BRIGADE, 1ST DIVISION, 20TH ARMY CORPS.
GOLDSBORO, N. C., April 2nd, 1865.
HON. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SIR:
I have the honor to recommend and earnestly request the appointment
of Colonel Edward S. Salomon, of the 82nd Regiment, Illinois
Volunteers, as Brevet Brigadier-General for gallant and meritorious
services.
Colonel Salomon joined this brigade with his regiment at the
opening of the campaign against Atlanta in the spring of 1864.
During the fighting before Resaca, Georgia, on the 14th and 15th of
May, this regiment behaved with great gallantry.
Again, at New Hope, Georgia, on the 25th of the same month, Colonel
Salomon led his command with admirable coolness and courage against
the enemy. After having advanced under a severe fire of musketry
and artillery more than a mile, he held his line close to the
entrenched position of the enemy, without a breastwork, and with a
scanty supply of ammunition.
At the battle near Peach Tree Creek, before Atlanta, Georgia, on
the 20th of July, 1864, Colonel Salomon performed a most gallant
and meritorious part in repulsing the repeated onslaughts made by
the enemy. In the face of a furious raking fire, he held his line
for four hours, when the enemy withdrew from his front with great
loss.
During the siege of Atlanta, Colonel Salomon was ever prominent for
his energy, coolness and judgment.
In the fight near Averysboro, North Carolina, on the 16th of March,
1865, Colonel Salomon, as usual, led his regiment into action with
great gallantry and skill.
At the battle of Bentonville, on the 19th of March, 1865, Colonel
Salomon and his command drew the unqualified admiration of all who
witnessed their coolness and discipline under fire, and their
effectual services in repulsing several determined attacks of the
enemy.
Colonel Salomon has distinguished himself in other engagements
besides those which have been mentioned. At Gettysburg and Missouri
Ridge his gallantry was conspicuous and challenged the highest
admiration.
I consider Colonel Salomon one of the most deserving officers of my
acquaintance. His regiment is his highest praise In point of drill
and discipline it is second to none in this corps. Its record will
bear safe comparison with any other of the same age in the army.
Colonel Salomon has had a commission as Colonel since April, 1864,
but his regiment not containing the requisite number of men he has
been unable to get mustered.
Earnestly hoping that his claims will meet your favorable attention.
I remain, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) J. S. ROBINSON,
Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Commanding 3d Brigade,
1st Division, 20th Army Corps.
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HEADQUARTERS 20TH ARMY CORPS.
GOLDSBORO, April 2, 1865.
I cordially concur in the recommendation of General Robinson. The
officer (Colonel Salomon) has just merits. He is intelligent,
gallant, brave and faithful. I have had several occasions to mark
his distinguished merit. There can be no promotion more deserved.
A. S. WILLIAMS,
Brevet Maj. Gen. Commanding.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, June 15, 1865.
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the President of the United States has
appointed you for distinguished gallantry and meritorious services
during the war, a Brigadier General of Volunteers, by brevet in the
service of the United States, to rank as such from the thirteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Should
the Senate at the next session advise and consent thereto, you will
be commissioned accordingly.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
_Secretary of War_.
TO BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL EDWARD S. SALOMON,
U. S. VOLUNTEERS.
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What was thought of General Salomon and his administration as Governor
by the people of Washington Territory is best explained by quoting the
following article from the _Pacific Tribune_, published at the time he
resigned his office of Governor:
"RESIGNATION OF GOVERNOR SALOMON.
"The acceptance of Governor Salomon's resignation by the President
is universally regretted by our people. He was honest, fearless
and capable. He mingled freely with the people, identified himself
with their interests and generously expended his time and means
to bring hither population and to promote our material interests.
He has established a reputation in the office which will make his
administration a source of pride to his fellow-citizens, and he
carries into his retirement the consolation that the good and true
of all parties regard it fortunate that he should have been called
to preside over our destinies. We speak the sentiment of our people
when we express unfeigned regret that he felt it his duty to resign
his office. His official acts are his best records; they have all
met with the heartiest commendation of our people.
"A thorough and consistent Republican, baptized in the fire of
battle, when gallantly sustaining the flags, he has always been
true and steadfast to the principles of the party of which he was
so distinguished a member. While ever ready with purse, pen and
tongue to maintain his partisan principles, he was singularly free
from a partisan bigotry in the exercise of official functions. He
governed the Territory. Party behests never made him swerve from
official integrity or duty to the whole people. How proudly can he
look to this episode of his life. He governed well. He satisfied
all, for the welfare of the whole was constantly in his eye; he was
true to the position he so happily filled.
"But his successor is soon to come among us. We are ready to accord
to the Executive a cordial welcome. We can wish him, however, no
higher or better aspiration than that he may prove worthy to be
the successor of one who so faithfully and well performed all his
duties as Edward S. Salomon."
SHANWALT, JACOB 91st Infantry
SAMUELSON, G. 105th Infantry
STINE, ABRAHAM 111th Infantry
SWITZER, MOSES 118th Infantry
SALOMON, TOBIAS 122nd Infantry
SALOMON, LEVI C 123d Infantry
SALOMON, SAMUEL C 123d Infantry
STRAUSS, DAVID 124th Infantry
SIMONS, SAMUEL 132nd Infantry
STRAUSS, ALBERT 156th Infantry
SIMON, DAVID S. 2nd Cavalry
STERNBERG, H. 2nd Cavalry
SIMONS, DANIEL 4th Cavalry
STRAUSS, CHARLES 4th Cavalry
SCHIFF, GOTTLIEB 8th Cavalry
STRAUSS, LEWIS 8th Cavalry
SAMUELSON, DAVID Corporal 10th Cavalry
SALOMON, HENRY, 1st Lieutenant 10th Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
SAMPSON, SIMON 10th Cavalry
Died of wounds.
SOLOMON, H. J. 2nd Lieutenant 10th Cavalry
STROUSE, CHARLES 12th Cavalry
SACHS, ADAM Captain 13th Cavalry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
SIMON, HENRY A 17th Cavalry
SCHONEMAN, JACOB 2nd Artillery
ULMAN, A. 58th Infantry
VOGEL, BERNHARD D 9th Infantry
VOGEL, LOUIS D 43d Infantry
Veteran.
VOGEL, LOUIS 44th Infantry
VOGEL, JACOB 67 Infantry
VOGEL, GOTTLIEB 72nd Infantry
VOGEL, CHARLES Captain B 132nd Infantry
VOGEL, LEWIS 2nd Cavalry
WOLF, JULIUS K 7th Infantry
At expiration of term re-enlisted as Veteran.
WOLF, LOUIS A 9th Infantry
WEIL, LOUIS E 9th Infantry
WODIC, EMANUEL K 10th Infantry
Has testimonies from his superior officers, speaking in
the highest terms of his devotion and courage.
WEISE, SIMON G 11th Infantry
WOLF, M. P. G 12th Infantry
WOLFSON, R. 16th Infantry
WOLF, G. W. 16th Infantry
WOLF, CHARLES K 18th Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH 21st Infantry
WOLF, HENRY G 21st Infantry
WELLNER, JACOB A 23d Infantry
WOLLNER, JACOB B 23d Infantry
Served three years.
WOLF, CHARLES 24th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB F 25th Infantry
WISE, SIMON A 26th Infantry
WISE, ISAAC 31st Infantry
WURZBURGER, ABRAHAM A 82nd Infantry
WOLF, MOSES C 82nd Infantry
WEISS, JOSEPH H 82nd Infantry
WATERMAN, ALFRED Surgeon 105th Infantry
Promoted from Assistant Surgeon.
DE WOLF, HENRY Sergeant D 134th Infantry
WATERMAN, DAVID 9th Cavalry
WEIL, SAMUEL 1st Artillery
ZUCKER, SIMON F 10th Infantry
ZAELLNER, LOUIS C 82nd Infantry
INDIANA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ADLER, HENRY Corporal I 15th Infantry
ADOLPH, JACOB A 22nd Infantry
AARON, ALLEN 33d Infantry
ASHER, W. H. E 33d Infantry
ASHER, H. C. 33d Infantry
ASH, ISAAC B 37th Infantry
APPEL, MOSES A 38th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Stone River.
APPEL, JOSEPH A 38th Infantry
ASHER, S. 54th Infantry
ASCHER, DAVID E 57th Infantry
ASH, JOSEPH H 67th Infantry
ABRAHAM, BENJAMIN C 68th Infantry
ASH, C. M. E 70th Infantry
ABRAHAM, EZEKIEL B 83d Infantry
AARON, DANIEL 90th Infantry
ASH, DANIEL Captain 99th Infantry
ARNOLD, MOSES D 99th Infantry
ASH, SALOMON E 99th Infantry
ALBERT, LEVI 106th Infantry
AARON, ADOLPH H 107th Infantry
ASHER, NOAH Corporal E 128th Infantry
Mustered out as Sergeant.
ASHER, SIMPSON E 133d Infantry
ASH, HENRY E 144th Infantry
ABRAHAMSON, EUGENE K 152nd Infantry
ALEXANDER, LEVI 13th Battery
BAER, SAMUEL A. I 7th Infantry
Died of wounds received at the Wilderness.
BERLIN, JACOB C 9th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
BENJAMIN, ABRAHAM Corporal C 10th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
BENJAMIN, THEODORE F 6th Infantry
BAIR, MANASSEH K 8th Infantry
BARNETT, ISAAC D 9th Infantry
BARNETT, LEWIS D 11th Infantry
BACHMAN, BENJAMIN A 13th Infantry
BENJAMIN, JULIUS F 13th Infantry
BARNETT, S. 18th Infantry
BENJAMIN, DAVID B 20th Infantry
BERNARD, JACOB Corporal D 20th Infantry
BERNARD, M. 1st Heavy Artillery
BAIR, SIMON E 26th Infantry
BERNARD, HENRY K 1st Cavalry
BENJAMIN, DAVID J. G 29th Infantry
BERNARD, WILLIAM E 32nd Infantry
BLUM, MARCUS H 32nd Infantry
BERNARD, A. 32nd Infantry
BARNHARD, DAVID G 33d Infantry
BENSON, DAVID S. 3d Cavalry
BERNARD, L. 38th Infantry
BARNHARD, JACOB F 40th Infantry
BEERS, MARCUS G 40th Infantry
BACHMAN, L. 42nd Infantry
BEAN, SOLOMON G 44th Infantry
BEAR, LEVI E 46th Infantry
BAUM, C. 46th Infantry
BENJAMIN, ABEL G 46th Infantry
BENJAMIN, PHILIP M. G 46th Infantry
BAER, MANASSEH N. Corporal B 47th Infantry
BAER, DANIEL B 47th Infantry
BAER, DAVID G 72nd Infantry
BAER, AARON I 74th Infantry
Mustered out as Quartermaster Sergeant.
BLUM, B. 77th Infantry
BAIER, J. 89th Infantry
BAMBERGER, HERMAN J. A 107th Infantry
BEAR, MANASSEH B 116th Infantry
BAUM, ADAM E. E 116th Infantry
BAUM, ZACHARIAH E 116th Infantry
BERNHEIMER, LEOPOLD A 136th Infantry
COFFMAN, MARCUS F 11th Infantry
CAHN, AD. 32nd Infantry
CAHN, JULIUS 32nd Infantry
COFFMAN, ISAAC D 40th Infantry
COFFMAN, SAMUEL L. B 2nd Cavalry
COFFMAN, LEVI A 8th Cavalry
COFFMAN, NATHAN B 43d Infantry
Captured; died in Rebel prison.
COFFMAN, LEVI Sergeant L 3d Cavalry
CORNELIUS, ABRAHAM B 51st Infantry
COHN, GABRIEL Sergeant C 68th Infantry
COFFMAN, JACOB E 75th Infantry
COFFMAN, JONAS 75th Infantry
COFFMAN, ISAAC D 81st Infantry
COFFMAN, ISAAC D 97th Infantry
COHEN, CHARLES, JR. 110th Infantry
COFFMAN, JOSEPH F 116th Infantry
COHEN, CHARLES F 116th Infantry
COFFMAN, JOSEPH K 128th Infantry
COHEN, ISAAC B 13th Cavalry
COFFMAN, JACOB 8th Battery
CAHN, ALBERT Lieutenant 135th Infantry
COHEN, MAX 3d Cavalry
COHN, A. J. Captain Pleasanton's Cavalry
DAVID, DANIEL C 6th Infantry
DAVID, LEVI F 7th Infantry
DAVID, EPHRAIM Corporal H 7th Infantry
DAVIDSON, MORDECAI A 17th Infantry
DAVIDSON, DAVID G 20th Infantry
DRYFUS, JACOB I 32nd Infantry
DANIEL, J. 44th Infantry
DE WITT JOHN 52nd Infantry
DESAR, DAVID Lieutenant 107th Infantry
EPSTEIN, FRANK D 7th Infantry
ESLINGER, ISIDOR Captain E 32nd Infantry
EMANUEL, BENJAMIN E 50th Infantry
ELLINGER, JACOB S. D 53d Infantry
ESLINGER, A. 59th Infantry
ENGEL, ELIAS (Minute Men) D 105th Infantry
ENGEL, N. (Minute Men) A 106th Infantry
EMANUEL, DANIEL A 116th Infantry
ENGELHART, H. D. C 83d Infantry
ELLINGER, REUBEN 25th Battery
FRANKS, ERNST K 17th Infantry
FRIEDLEIN, ADAM K 19th Infantry
FRANK, SAMUEL F 1st Cavalry
FREUND, HENRY I 32nd Infantry
FRED, EPHRAIM H 53d Infantry
FRED, JACOB H 53d Infantry
FRYBERGER, A. J. I 54th Infantry
FRANK, MOSES H 59th Infantry
FISHEL, SOLOMON K 99th Infantry
FISHEL, DAVID K 99th Infantry
FALK, ISAAC W. F 100th Infantry
FALK, JOSEPH B 100th Infantry
FRIEDLEIN, MICHAEL C 118th Infantry
FRANKFODER, D. Lieutenant 142nd Infantry
FRIEDLEIN, JOSEPH E 147th Infantry
FRIEDLEIN, EMANUEL E 147th Infantry
FRANK, ADAM Lieutenant 6th Battery
FRANK, JOSEPH 10th Battery
FRANK, MORRIS F. 25th Battery
GRUNBURG, MARKS 8th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH F 11th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, J. L. K 15th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOEL L. E 18th Infantry
Wounded at Pea Ridge.
GOODMAN, C. Corporal 23d Infantry
GOLDMAN, W. H. A 23d Infantry
GOODMAN, BENJAMIN S. B 24th Infantry
GOODMAN, D. 26th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, FREDERICK H 26th Infantry
GOODMAN, JACOB D 30th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, G. B. A 31st Infantry
GOLDSMITH, J. L. G 33d Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOHN F 34th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, M. B 38th Infantry
GOODMAN, J. 38th Infantry
GOODMAN, MAIER E 38th Infantry
GREENFIELD, HENRY G 2nd Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, HENRY B 44th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, J. W. F 44th Infantry
GREEN, SOLOMON A. A 54th Infantry
GOODMAN, CHARLES B. B 54th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, GEORGE W. B 57th Infantry
GOODMAN, A. 58th Infantry
Killed at Stone River.
GOLDMAN, JESSE I 60th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, M. H. K 67th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, W. H. I 68th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JAMES D 80th Infantry
GOLDMAN, ALEXANDER I 80th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH K 103d Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, SAMUEL (Minute Men) E 107th Infantry
GOODMAN, ABRAHAM (Minute Men) A 113th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, BERNARD D 136th Infantry
GOLDMAN, JONATHAN I 142nd Infantry
GOLDMAN, P. D 144th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, J. G. Corporal 9th Battery
GOLDSMITH, EDWIN Adjutant 100th Infantry
HAYMAN, LOUIS Corporal K 18th Infantry
HARRIS, SIMON H 20th Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
HESS, LEOPOLD B 23d Infantry
HIRSCH, PHILIP K 26th Infantry
HESS, LEVI M. Lieutenant B 29th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant
HESS, JOSEPH H 31st Infantry
HAHN, C. 32nd Infantry
HAHN, J. 32nd Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB C 37th Infantry
HINNEMAN, DAVID B 8th Cavalry
HINNEMAN, JOSEPH B 8th Cavalry
HOFFMAN, SOLOMON A 2nd Cavalry
HESS, ALEXANDER Lieutenant F 2nd Cavalry
Promoted from Sergeant.
HOFFMAN, EMANUEL L. E 42nd Infantry
HERSH, J. W. C 44th Infantry
HOFFMAN, AARON Corporal D 3d Cavalry
HERRMAN, ABRAHAM B. D 46th Infantry
HERMAN, JOSEPH Corporal F 46th Infantry
HESS, J. 46th Infantry
HOFFMAN, JACOB D 47th Infantry
HUFFMAN, SIMON D 47th Infantry
HESS, JACOB Captain K 21st Infantry
HERSCHMAN, G. W. B 51st Infantry
HELLER, DANIEL H 51st Infantry
HOCHSTETTER, JOSEPH A 52nd Infantry
Killed by guerillas.
HOCHSTETTER, JACOB C 52nd Infantry
HEACHBURGER, LEVI C 63d Infantry
HERZOG, ISAAC D 63d Infantry
HOCHSTETTER, BENJAMIN Lieutenant 67th Infantry
HIRSCHBERGER, ABRAHAM D 72nd Infantry
HIRSCHBERGER, NOAH D 72nd Infantry
HYNEMAN, J. E 80th Infantry
HYNEMAN, LEWIS D 83d Infantry
HIRSCH, WOLF C 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga and taken prisoner; he
served throughout the Civil War.
HIRSCHMAN, EZEKIEL G 100th Infantry
HART, AARON Corporal D 103d Infantry
HAHN, JOSEPH (Minute Men) G 106th Infantry
HERRMAN, A. (Minute Men) 107th Infantry
HART, AARON I 9th Cavalry
HERMAN, REUBEN H 12th Infantry
HIRSCH, GEORGE G 135th Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB A 136th Infantry
HAHN, JACOB A 136th Infantry
HESS, L. 136th Infantry
HIRSCH, AUGUST A 142nd Infantry
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM Corporal F 146th Infantry
HERMAN, JACOB F 149th Infantry
HERZOG, JACOB C. D 154th Infantry
HELLER, ABRAHAM H 155th Infantry
HIRSCH, FERDINAND 6th Battery
HIRSCHLER, ABRAHAM M 4th Cavalry
Died in Libby Prison.
ISAACSON, J. A. H 15th Infantry
JOSEPHS, ABRAHAM C. Sergeant K 11th Infantry
JOSEPH, MARK P. Captain K 11th Infantry
Enlisted as private; wounded.
JACOBS, NATHAN G 13th Infantry
JUDAH, SAMUEL K 20th Infantry
JOSEPH, MARX 1st Heavy Artillery
JACOBS, ELIAS K 30th Infantry
JUDAH, ISRAEL F 31st Infantry
JACOBY, S. 48th Infantry
Died of wounds.
JUDAH, H. 90th Infantry
JACOBS, A. M. E 114th Infantry
JUDAH, TH. O. D 117th Infantry
JOSEPH, JOHN A 3d Cavalry
JACOBSON, SAMUEL 14th Battery
KAUFMAN, JACOB C. G 20th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ADOLPH F 32nd Infantry
KOCH, JOSEPH A 60th Infantry
KOCH, L. Corporal 60th Infantry
KOCH, P. 60th Infantry
KAHN, JULIUS I 76th Infantry
KING, ISAAC B 88th Infantry
KISER, MOSES B 88th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JACOB Corporal A 89th Infantry
KAHN, ELI (Minute Men) D 110th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, BENJAMIN A 118th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, ABRAHAM G 11th Cavalry
KUHN, LEO B 136th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, BENJAMIN G 139th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, ABRAHAM G 149th Infantry
KUHN, S. 3d Battery
KIRSCHLER, A. Sergeant M 4th Cavalry
Captured; died in Andersonville Prison.
KUBITSHEK, MICHEL I 88th Infantry
KUBITSHEK, HENRY Lieutenant G 48th Infantry
Promoted from ranks.
KNEFLER, FREDERICK Brigadier- 79th Infantry
General
Attained the highest rank of any Israelite who served during
the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in the 79th Regiment,
Indiana Volunteers, and rose step by step until he was promoted
to the Colonelcy of his Regiment. Subsequently he was appointed
Brigadier-General, then Brevet Major-General for meritorious
conduct at Chickamauga. He participated in the principal battles
of the Army of the Cumberland under Generals Rosecrans, Thomas,
Sherman, and Grant, and took part in the engagements under Sherman
in the march to the sea. General Knefler has the reputation of
having been one of the most gallant soldiers. He is now living in
Indianapolis, honored and respected.
LICHTENBERGER, LOUIS G 6th Infantry
LILIENTHAL, HENRY H 11th Infantry
LIPPMAN, FR. L. A 12th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, ISIDOR S. Corporal G 18th Infantry
LEHMAN, SIMON Corporal C 21st Infantry
LEHMAN, C. C 21st Infantry
LEHMAN, RUDOLPH 23d Infantry
LEVI, J. S. E 23d Infantry
LAZARUS, HENRY C 24th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, ADAM S. Captain H 29th Infantry
Enlisted as private; promoted at the battle of Stone
River.
LEHMAN, HENRY F 31st Infantry
LEHMAN, H. D. F 31st Infantry
LEVI, NATHAN H 32nd Infantry
LEVY, NATHAN Lieutenant 32nd Infantry
LEVY, ABRAHAM K 32nd Infantry
LEOPOLD, W. W. 8th Cavalry
LICHTENWATER, DAVID B 44th Infantry
LORSCH, DAVID C. K 44th Infantry
LEVI, MORRIS I 52nd Infantry
LEHMAN, SAMUEL J. K 57th Infantry
LIPPOLD, JULIUS G 58th Infantry
LEAVIT, SAMUEL 44th Infantry
LEVI, J. S. Corporal G 66th Infantry
Killed at Richmond, Kentucky.
LEVI, WASHINGTON G 123d Infantry
LETTERMAN, JOSEPH M 10th Cavalry
LOWENTHAL, THEODORE D 135th Infantry
LOEB, ISAAC G 138th Infantry
LUDWIG, HERMAN Lieutenant 20th Battery
LOEB, JACOB 1st Battery
MAY, FRANK 2nd Infantry
MYERS, LEVI D. 7th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB D 7th Infantry
MAYER, FERDINAND Corporal 10th Infantry
Promoted to Lieutenant.
MARX, ISAAC I. I 11th Infantry
MANUEL, JULIUS P. B 12th Infantry
MEYER, ABRAHAM K 12th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL D 13th Infantry
Died of wounds.
MEYER, ADOLPH Lieutenant K 14th Infantry
MENDEL, G. W. Corporal E 16th Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID R. 17th Infantry
MAY, ISAAC M. Major 19th Infantry
MEYERS, L. F 19th Infantry
MORITZ, JACOB B 22nd Infantry
MORITZ, FREDERICK B 22nd Infantry
MARCUS, ALEXANDER B. G 24th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH K 27th Infantry
MANUEL, SIMON E 29th Infantry
MORITZ, CHARLES F 29th Infantry
MARKS, JESSE N. I 29th Infantry
MEYER, ERNST Lieutenant 32nd Infantry
MAIER, HENRY F 30th Infantry
MAYER, LEOPOLD B 32nd Infantry
MAIER, JACOB E 32nd Infantry
MEIER, FERDINAND C. Sergeant K 32nd Infantry
MEYER, HENRY G 33d Infantry
MAY, LEWIS K 34th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB Sergeant I 37th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MAYER, HERMAN L. C 44th Infantry
MAYER, JULIUS I 46th Infantry
MAYER, SAMUEL D 48th Infantry
MORITZ, DANIEL C 54th Infantry
MAY, SIMON F 58th Infantry
MAYER, J. G. Lieutenant 7th Cavalry
MAYER, ABRAHAM I 59th Infantry
MAYER, HENRY D 60th Infantry
MYER, ISAAC F. Corporal C 63d Infantry
MOSES, SAMUEL D 63d Infantry
MAAS, ISAAC Captain 65th Infantry
MOSES, ISAAC A 66th Infantry
MAIER, JOSEPH C 67th Infantry
MAYER, HENRY D 69th Infantry
MANN, DAVID E 69th Infantry
MANN, ISAAC E 69th Infantry
MAYER, HENRY F G 76th Infantry
MANN, DANIEL A 79th Infantry
MOSES, JAMES K 80th Infantry
MAY, ABRAHAM F 82nd Infantry
MAY, JACOB F 82nd Infantry
MEYER, JACOB K 89th Infantry
MARKS, JACOB A 90th Infantry
MANN, SAMUEL C 90th Infantry
MARKS, HENRY A 91st Infantry
MANUEL, JACOB D 93d Infantry
MOSS, LEWIS Lieutenant 107th Infantry
MAYER, LOUIS (Minute Men) B 107th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH (Minute Men) I 107th Infantry
MARKS, ISAAC H. (Minute Men) C 108th Infantry
MAY, FRANK (Minute Men) K 108th Infantry
MAY, ELI (Minute Men) D 110th Infantry
MARKS, ABRAHAM F 138th Infantry
MORRIS, MORDECAI B 138th Infantry
MYERS, SOLOMON D 147th Infantry
MYERS, ISAAC A 148th Infantry
MYERS, JACOB D 151st Infantry
MYERS, BENJAMIN H 151st Infantry
MEYER, HERMAN H. B 156th Infantry
MEIER, ADOLPH H. D 156th Infantry
Mustered out as Sergeant.
MAYER, JULIUS Corporal 1st Battery
NATHAN, HARRIS H 7th Infantry
NEUMAN, REUBEN C 33d Infantry
NUSSBAUM, JOSIAH B 47th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, HENRY B 47th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, JOEL F 53d Infantry
NEWMAN, JOSEPH G 58th Infantry
NEWMAN, SIMON C 60th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, JOSEPH A 89th Infantry
NEWBERGER, SYLVESTER G 138th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, JACOB 13th Battery
OCHS, LEWIS G 11th Infantry
OCHS, FRIEDRICH F 32nd Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
OSCAR, MARCUS D 59th Infantry
RUSSELL, E. J. F 19th Infantry
Severely wounded.
ROSENBAUM, WILLIAM C 26th Infantry
ROSE, JOSEPH E 38th Infantry
ROSE, SOLOMON E 38th Infantry
ROSENTHALER, J. G. E 46th Infantry
ROSCHILD, ALBERT I 53d Infantry
RICH, DAVID E 67th Infantry
RICH, JONAH E 67th Infantry
ROSENBERG, PHILIP A 81st Infantry
ROSENGARTEN, LEON T. I 104th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, MOSES H 106th Infantry
(Minute Men)
ROSENTHAL, SAMUEL E 107th Infantry
(Minute Men)
ROSENTHAL, WILLIAM H 110th Infantry
(Minute Men)
ROSENBERG, JOHN B 129th Infantry
RICH, NATHAN C 137th Infantry
SALMON, ENOCH C. K 10th Infantry
SALOMON, ISAAC D 10th Infantry
SCHLESSINGER, LEWIS E 10th Infantry
STERN, HENRY Lieutenant 13th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
STETTNER, HENRY K 11th Infantry
SPEYER, JOSEPH K 13th Infantry
SAMUELSON, AUGUST B 17th Infantry
STROUSE, W. H. G 18th Infantry
SIMON, ISAAC D. K 18th Infantry
SOLOMON, WILLIAM D 21st Infantry
STEINER, JACOB 24th Infantry
SEGALL, BERNHARD F 29th Infantry
Wounded at Shiloh and at Grand Gulf.
STROUSE, MARTIN A 30th Infantry
SOLOMON, JACOB C 31st Infantry
STEIN, EMIL H 32nd Infantry
SACHS, MAX Lieutenant C 32nd Infantry
Killed at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He had refused to surrender to
the rebels surrounding him, but succeeded in retarding the enemy's
progress long enough to enable his comrades to obtain support and
disperse the enemy--one of the most heroic feats during the war.
SELIG, SIEGMUND Lieutenant K 32nd Infantry
SIMON, LEVY B 34th Infantry
STROUSE, SIMON K 34th Infantry
SCHOTT, EZEKIEL F 37th Infantry
SANDERS, AARON A 38th Infantry
SOLOMON, MICHAEL B 2nd Cavalry
STROUSS, LEWIS H 42nd Infantry
STROUSE, JOSEPH A 44th Infantry
STROUSE, FREDERICK D 3d Cavalry
STROUSE, DANIEL B 47th Infantry
SULZER, JACOB G 53d Infantry
SALMON, WILLIAM C. C 54th Infantry
STEINER, JACOB B 58th Infantry
STERN, SAMUEL Quartermaster 58th Infantry
SIMON, JOSEPH F 59th Infantry
SCHOENFELD, JACOB F 60th Infantry
SWARZ, ISAAC H 60th Infantry
SWARZ, LEVI H 60th Infantry
SIMON, LOUIS D 65th Infantry
STEIN, JOSEPH L. C 69th Infantry
SIMON, JOSEPH, JR. F 69th Infantry
SIGMONDS, JOEL I 69th Infantry
SPIEGEL, DANIEL A 70th Infantry
SOLOMON, JAMES H 71st Infantry
SCHILLER, DANIEL C 73d Infantry
SCHILLER, I. 73d Infantry
SAMUELSON, SAMUEL E 73d Infantry
SOLOMON, LEWIS C 80th Infantry
SALMON, JACOB N. I 81st Infantry
SOLOMON, DAVID N. E 85th Infantry
STERN, JACOB C 90th Infantry
SOLOMON, LEVI D 91st Infantry
SOMMERS, AARON I 91st Infantry
SHOEMAKER AARON Lieutenant 101st Infantry
SPIEGEL, EDWARD (Minute Men) A 107th Infantry
SOLOMON, CHARLES (Minute Men) I 107th Infantry
SOLOMON, JAMES (Minute Men) F 112th Infantry
SCHOEN, MAX Sergeant G 7th Cavalry
SCHELT, WILLIAM B 132nd Infantry
Mustered out as Sergeant.
STROUSE, DAVID G 133d Infantry
STERNS, ISAAC A 137th Infantry
SHOTT, EZEKIEL Lieutenant I 139th Infantry
STEIN, HERMAN E 142nd Infantry
SOLOMON, PHILIP Corporal G 149th Infantry
SIMONS, SOLOMON 5th Battery
SEIXAS, EUGENE 21st Battery
SAMPSON, JOSEPH Lieutenant 154th Infantry
WATERMAN, SOLOMON Captain I 7th Infantry
Promoted for gallantry; killed at the Battle of Port
Republic, Virginia, while at the head of his Company.
WOLF, JACOB C 9th Infantry
WATERMAN, MOSES I 11th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL K 11th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL M 11th Infantry
WOLF, JOEL Lieutenant- 16th Infantry
Colonel
Killed at Richmond, Kentucky.
WOLF, DAVID C 21st Infantry
WIENER, SIMON F 30th Infantry
WEILER, AARON G 32nd Infantry
WEIL, BERNARD K 32nd Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL L 8th Cavalry
WOLF, SAMUEL H 42nd Infantry
WOLF, DAVID G 48th Infantry
WOLF, AARON I 53d Infantry
WOLF, LEVI K 54th Infantry
WISE, ABRAHAM C. I 65th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL Lieutenant 73d Infantry
WOLF, LEWIS F 74th Infantry
WOLF, REUBEN K 74th Infantry
Killed at Murfordsville.
WOLF, JACOB C 87th Infantry
WOLF, LEVI B 97th Infantry
WATERMAN, HENRY C 100th Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH I 100th Infantry
WATERMAN, HENRY F. Lieutenant 101st Infantry
Killed at Mission Ridge.
WOLF, LEVI (Minute Men) A 106th Infantry
WOLF, MOSES (Minute Men) E 107th Infantry
WOLF, ISAAC (Minute Men) 107th Infantry
WISE, EMANUEL D. G 118th Infantry
WOLF, MOSES A. I 118th Infantry
WOLF, LEVI Lieutenant 124th Infantry
WOLF, SOLOMON C 124th Infantry
WOLF, ADAM Lieutenant 130th Infantry
WOLF, EMANUEL Corporal G 138th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
WISE, ABRAHAM B. B 10th Cavalry
WOLF, JACOB A 152nd Infantry
WIESENTHAL, LOUIS Lieutenant 7th Battery
WOLF, JOSEPH 9th Battery
WATERHOUSE, CHARLES Brigade Band
IOWA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
APPEL, ALEXANDER M. Sergeant 16th Infantry
Major
Distinguished for saving regimental colors at Pittsburg Landing;
enlisted as private; promoted for gallantry. For fifteen years a
member of George G. Meade Post, of the Grand Army of the Republic,
honored with the election as Post Commander and in 1893 appointed
Assistant Inspector of G. A. R. Posts.
BENNY, WILLIAM B. C 4th Infantry
Wounded at Pea Ridge.
BOEHM, S. Corporal F 6th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
ELLER, JACOB I 34th Infantry
GERSON, N. 6th Cavalry
KLEIN, MAX 1st Cavalry
MEYERS, JACOB D 10th Infantry
MELLER, ISAAC D 24th Infantry
MAY, VICTOR
Answered first call for 75,000 men; subsequently
enlisted for the war.
NEWBOLD, H. Colonel 14th Infantry
Killed at Red River.
SANDERS, LEOPOLD 4th Infantry
STRAUSS, CHARLES C 24th Infantry
KANSAS.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
BONDI, AUGUST Sergeant K 5th Cavalry
Wounded three times; discharged; disabled.
FRANK, HENRY Infantry
LIEBSCHUTZ, ADOLPH Brevet 1st K 9th Cavalry
Lieutenant
Enlisted as private; brevetted for meritorious conduct;
wounded at Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
ROSENFELD, ---- Quartermaster 3th Infantry
ULMER, J. C 8th Cavalry
WITTENBERG, ARNOLD H 2nd Infantry
WITTENBERG, MARCUS H 5th Cavalry
Killed on the battlefield.
WOLF, EUGENE 5th Cavalry
Seriously wounded.
WITTENBERG, MORITZ B 2th Infantry
KENTUCKY.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
DAVIS, HENRY B 16th Infantry
DAVID, JOSEPH E 1st Cavalry
FEIST, JACOB Sergeant G 1st Infantry
Promoted from private; four years' service.
HOFFMAN, LAZARUS B 15th Infantry
Three years' service; wounded at Chickamauga.
HECHT, NOAH D 23d Infantry
HILP, JACOB 1st Cavalry
LOWENSTEIN, SAMUEL B. K 1st Cavalry
LEVI HENRY { 23d Infantry and
{ 2nd United States
{ Cavalry
POLLOCK, ABRAHAM Quartermaster 21st Infantry
PFEIFER, JOSEPH 21st Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, A. Captain B 15th Infantry
Enlisted as private; promoted for bravery at Stone
River; wounded.
ROSENTHAL, SAMUEL D 34th Infantry
STRAUS, LOUIS E 6th Infantry
SCHOENBERG, ELIAS C 16th Infantry
SPITZER, JOSEPH C 16th Infantry
SPEYER, HENRY Captain D 23d Infantry
SEESSEL, HENRY I 1st Cavalry
SLAUGHTER, JOSEPH K 1st Cavalry
TRAUERMAN, BERNARD F 1st Infantry
ULMAN, GUS. 3d Infantry
WEIL, MOSES 2nd Infantry
WEIL, BERNARD 3d Infantry
LOUISIANA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ADLER, ADOLPH 5th Infantry
AARON, MOSES B 11th Infantry
ABRAHAM, JOSEPH B 11th Infantry
ASHER, I. K 11th Infantry
ALEXANDER, J. K 11th Infantry
ANSELM, JACOB 18th Infantry
Died on the field of battle.
ASSENHEIMER, DAVID Captain F 22nd Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
ALBRECHT, ADOLPH Crescent Heavy Artillery
ARONSTEIN, JULIUS Colonel Wingfield's Battery
BRANDT, J. R. B 1st Infantry
Served during the war.
BAUM, G. A. C 2nd Infantry
BENSON, F. Corporal C 3d Infantry
BRANDENSTEIN, M. K 3d Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg.
BADT, W. 3d Infantry
BATH, H. 6th Infantry
BENJAMIN, MICHAEL B 11th Infantry
BARD, JACOB B 11th Infantry
BLOOM, ABRAHAM K 11th Infantry
BROWN, LOUIS K 11th Infantry
BLOOMENSTEIL, ISAAC K 11th Infantry
BAER, M. K 11th Infantry
BODENHEIMER, LAZARUS K 11th Infantry
BLUM, M. K 11th Infantry
BERNSTEIN, JACOB K 11th Infantry
BROWN, HERMAN Washington Artillery
BLUM, SAMUEL P. Lieutenant D 22nd Infantry
COHN, M. D 3d Infantry
CASPARI, L. Captain G 3d Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
CALINSKI, P. H 3d Infantry
COHN, I. A 5th Infantry
COHEN, J. C. Captain 5th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
COHEN, JACOB A. A 15th Infantry
Killed at Manassas, August 30th, 1862; buried in
Jewish cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
DANZIGER, ISADORE B Orleans Guards
DALSHEIMER, ALEXANDER K 3d Infantry
Taken prisoner at Corinth.
DE MEZA, J. H. Washington Artillery
ELLIS, LEWIS C. L. 22nd Infantry
FRANKEL FELIX K 3d Infantry
FLORENCE, HENRY C. Washington Artillery
FISCHEL, CHARLES F 8th Infantry
FALK, S. 11th Infantry
FALK, FERDINAND K 11th Infantry
FRIEDLIENER, BENJAMIN 12th Infantry
Served three years.
FRIEDHEIM, HERMAN F 12th Infantry
"Joined a company of Confederate soldiers which became Company F
of 12th Infantry. No braver man ever fired a gun. At the Battle of
Franklin, Tennessee, when there was not a commissioned officer to
lead, he as Sergeant, led his company, and passed over the parapet
into the Federal intrenchments, and with James A. Platt, a comrade,
he was captured and sent to Camp Douglas, in Illinois, and was kept
a prisoner until the expiration of the war."--_From a newspaper
clipping._
FLORENCE, LEWIS Under Colonel Thomas
Killed at Vicksburg.
GERSHOLT, WILLIAM B 1st Infantry
GOLDCHEAUSE, J. D 11th Infantry
GALT, JACOB K 11th Infantry
GUSDOFER, MORRIS K 11th Infantry
GROSS, CHARLES 17th Infantry
HARBY, I. K. Washington Artillery
HAAS, A. M. G 1st Infantry
HABER, FERDINAND A. 1st Infantry
HYAMS, S. M. Lieutenant-Colonel 3d Infantry
Promoted for bravery. Colonel of Cavalry.
HAAS, HENRY 3d Infantry
Enlisted 1861; served until close of war.
HIRSCH, B. A 3d Infantry
Killed at battle of Iuka.
HOCHINSKI, W. D 3d Infantry
HYAMS, J. P. G 3d Infantry
Promoted for gallant conduct at the battle of Elk Horn.
HIRSCH, H. K 3d Infantry
Killed at the battle of Iuka.
HELLMAN, H. A 5th Infantry
HART, ALEXANDER Major 5th Infantry
Promoted from Non-Commissioned Officer, from 1863, Colonel,
being wounded; commanded regiment; taken prisoner at Sharpsburg;
seriously wounded at Sharpsburg, again at Gettysburg.
HAAS, ISIDORE E 8th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; served until close of war.
HIRSCHFIELD, BENJAMIN C 11th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, FREDERICK D 11th Infantry
HOLZMAN, BENJAMIN K 11th Infantry
HYMES, I. Lieutenant K 11th Infantry
HYMES, P. K 11th Infantry
HERZOG, S. K 11th Infantry
HART, SIDNEY A. 13th Infantry
HIRSCH, N. 18th Infantry
HERTZ, SOLOMON 22nd Infantry
HERRMANN, H. 41st Infantry
ISAACSON, H. M. Captain 22nd Washington
Artillery
ISRAEL, E. L. 5th Infantry
JACOBS, ---- 5th Infantry
JASTRENSKI, LEON 10th Infantry
Promoted for gallantry and daring.
JACOBS, JULIUS A. K 11th Infantry
JACOBS, AARON B 11th Infantry
JACOBS, ISAAC 22nd Infantry
JONAS, BENJAMIN F. Fenner's Battery
Served as private until close of war; afterwards United
States Senator from Louisiana.
KURSHEEDT, E. I. 2nd Washington Artillery
Promoted for bravery.
KOHLMAN, S. Watson's Battery
Enlisted at eighteen and served from 1861 until the
close of the war.
KLOTZ, ABRAHAM Donaldsonville Artillery
Served four years.
KLING, GABRIEL Donaldsonville Artillery
Served four years.
KAHN, GABRIEL E 2nd Infantry
KAHN, SELIG A 3d Infantry
Wounded at Vicksburg; served four years.
KAHN, ABRAHAM 8th Infantry
KAHN, MOSES B 9th Infantry
KAUFMAN, S. 11th Infantry
KAUFMAN, MOSES K 11th Infantry
KAHN, ISAAC Sergeant K 11th Infantry
KAHN, A. K 11th Infantry
KAHN, JULIUS K 11th Infantry
KUHN, SAMUEL 20th Infantry
LEVY, EDGAR 1st Washington Artillery
LEVY, LIONEL L. 5th Washington Artillery
LEVY, SIMON 5th Washington Artillery
LOEB, HENRY Donaldsonville Artillery
Served through the war.
LEVY, EUGENE H. } C Dreux Battery
Wounded at Petersburg; }
served through the war. }
LEVY, JULIUS H. } C Dreux Battery
Served through the war. } (3 brothers)
LEVY, JOSEPH C. } Lieutenant 1st Infantry
Killed in leading charge}
at Shiloh. }
LEVY, LIONEL C., JR. Fenner's Battery
Enlisted at fifteen and served until the close of the war.
LEVY, D. C. 1st Infantry
Killed at Franklin.
LEVY, DAVID C. 1st Infantry
Distinguished for courage; killed at Shiloh.
LISSO, JULIUS 1st Infantry
LISSO, MARX 1st Infantry
LEVY, JULIAN S. B 1st Infantry
LABAT, JACOB C. 2nd Infantry
LICHTENSTEIN, WOLF A 2nd Infantry
LEVY, D. D 2nd Infantry
LIPMAN, JOSHUA Orderly { } G 2nd Infantry
Sergeant{ } H 5th Infantry
Wounded at Winchester; subsequently Lieutenant.
LEVY, WILLIAM Colonel 2nd Infantry
LEVY, HENRY M. 2nd Infantry
LEVY, L. I 3d Infantry
Enlisted 1861; served until the close of the war;
wounded at Oak Hill.
LYONS, ISAAC L. Captain 5th Infantry
Seriously wounded at Malvern Hill, yet served until
the close of the war.
LIPPMAN, LEWIS P. Captain E 5th Infantry
Enlisted as private; promoted for bravery; killed at
Fredericksburg.
LABAT, DAVID COHEN Captain 5th Infantry
When, in consequence of severe illness, contracted in
the service, resulting in chronic asthma, Captain
Labat was compelled to resign his commission, J.
Bankhead Magruder, the General commanding, endorsed
the Captain's letter of resignation with the
words: "Captain Labat's resignation is a loss to the
public service."
LIPPMAN, L. S. Lieutenant 5th Infantry
Killed May 9, 1863; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
LEVY, JULIEN 5th Infantry
Subsequently with "Stonewall" Jackson.
LABAT, JACKSON E. 5th Infantry
Captured at Vicksburg.
LIPPMAN, LOUIS C. E 5th Infantry
LEVY, ISAAC Point Cooper Artillery
Served through the war with a surgeon's discharge in his pocket;
displayed notable bravery at the battle of Baker's Creek. His
willingness, skill and undaunted courage combined to render him in
every respect an efficient soldier.
LEVY, ALBERT Louisiana Guards Artillery
LION, SYLVAIN Donaldsonville Artillery
LEVY, E. Donaldsville Artillery
LICHTENSTEIN, WILLIAM Louisiana Reserves
LANDMAN, BENJAMIN K 11th Reserves
LEVY, DANIEL K 11th Reserves
LOEB, SOLOMON E 11th Infantry
LEVY, H. K 11th Infantry
LEVY, S., JR. K 11th Infantry
LEVY, DAVID C., JR. Lieutenant H 13th Infantry
Promoted from private; Acting Adjutant; twice
wounded; killed at Murfreesboro.
LIPPMAN, ASHER 22d Infantry
LYONS, DAVID 22nd Infantry
LEVY, AARON Sergeant D 30th Infantry
MARKS, HARRY H. 1st Washington
Artillery
Fell in charge at Malvern Hill.
MARKS, EDWIN National Guards Battery
MEERTIF, SAMUEL 1st Infantry
MARCUSS, M. 2d Infantry
MEYER, ADOLPH 3d Infantry
MAYER, J. P. Corporal E 3d Infantry
Wounded at Iuka and again at Vicksburg.
MARCH, ---- 3d Infantry
MARCH, HENRY 5th Infantry
Promoted to Assistant Quartermaster.
MAAS, MAX A 5th Infantry
MOSES, PHILIP 5th Infantry
MARKS, HENRY CLAY Lieutenant 10th Infantry
Killed at Malvern Hill.
MEYER, LEO W. B 11th Infantry
MEYER, E. H. E 11th Infantry
MANNHEIMER, B. G 11th Infantry
MEYER, E. K 11th Infantry
MOCH, HENRY K 11th Infantry
Killed in battle.
MEYER, SIEGMUND 17th Infantry
MAGNER, BERNARD Fenner's Battery
Served through war.
MARKS, WASHINGTON Major 22nd Infantry
Promoted.
MARKS, D. H. Captain 22nd Infantry
MARKS, MARION Lieutenant 22nd Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MARKS, HILLEL E 22nd Infantry
MARKS, LEON R. Colonel 27th Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg.
MARKS, I. Boone's Battery
MILLED, CHARLES D. Dreux Battalion
MARKS, FREDERICK Louisiana Guard Artillery
MOOSE, CHARLES Donaldsonville Artillery
MEYER, ADOLPH Hon. General
NEWMAN, A. C 3d Infantry
Captured at Corinth.
NATHAN, WOLF 8th Infantry
NATHAN, M. B 9th Infantry
NEWMAN, HENRY G 11th Infantry
Wounded at Murfreesboro.
NEWMAN, ---- Major 14th Infantry
NATHAN, SAMUEL 22d Infantry
OCHS, LOUIS B 9th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, BENJAMIN 22d Infantry
PHILLIPS, EDWARD 3d Infantry
ROSENFIELD, JULIUS 7th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, MATHIAS 8th Infantry
REISS, ALEXANDER G 11th Infantry
REISS, GUSTAVE G 11th Infantry
ROSE, EMANUEL 27th Infantry
REESE, ABRAHAM Sergeant Crescent Infantry
Served four years.
SAMUEL, M. E 2d Infantry
Enlisted 1861; served until close of war.
SILBANAGEL, BENJAMIN B 3d Infantry
SINGER, LOUIS F 3d Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg.
SAMPSON, ED. 5th Infantry
Killed at Gaines' Mills.
SEIXAS, J. MADISON 5th Washington Artillery
Served through war.
STRAUS, JOSEPH Lieutenant B 11th Infantry
STRASSER, EPHRAIM B 11th Infantry
SELIGMAN, J. Sergeant K 11th Infantry
SELIGMAN, I. K 11th Infantry
SIMON, HENRY K 11th Infantry
STRAUSS, I. K 11th Infantry
STERN, ---- Captain B 14th Infantry
SARTARIUS, PHILIP 14th Infantry
SCHLENKER, JACOB 17th Infantry
STEIN, DANIEL 17th Infantry
STRAUSS, NAGEL 21st Artillery
SCHLENKER, ALEXANDER Quartermaster's Department North
STROMEYER, GEORGE F 22nd Infantry
SCHEUER, JONATHAN Donaldsonville Artillery
Wounded; died at Richmond during the war; buried
in Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
TAYLOR, RICHARD (DICK) "Louisiana Tigers"
UNGER, MEYER F 1st Infantry
UNGER, EMANUEL E 11th Infantry
WEIL, ALEXANDER I 2d Infantry
Wounded at Antietam while trying to recover the
regiment's flag; wounded seriously at Gettysburg and
captured.
WINNER, MARKS C 3d Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH D 3d Infantry
WEIL, SAMUEL 3d Cavalry
WEINBERG, SELIG 5th Infantry
WEINBERG, SOLOMON 6th Infantry
WAGNER, G. 8th Infantry
WITKOWSKY, LOUIS B 9th Infantry
WEISS, B. B 9th Infantry
WAGNER, LOUIS B 9th Infantry
WILCUISKI, BENJAMIN B 11th Infantry
WOLFSOHN, ELIAS B 11th Infantry
WOLFF, LEON B 11th Infantry
WEISS, SOLOMON B 11th Infantry
WECHSLER, A. K 11th Infantry
WEIL, NATHAN K 11th Infantry
WOLFF, ISAAC K 11th Infantry
WECHLER, S. K 11th Infantry
Killed in battle.
WEIL, GABRIEL K 11th Infantry
WORKUM, DAVID J. 13th Infantry
WEIL, ---- Major 14th Infantry
WOLFF, MOSES Washington Artillery
WOLFF, C. Pouinte Coupee Infantry
ZARK, JULIUS 7th Infantry
Killed in skirmish; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
ZIMMERN, J. F 22nd Infantry
MAINE.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
GOLDMAN, A. Captain 17th Infantry
MARYLAND.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
BLUMENBERG, LEOPOLD Brevet 5th Maryland Infantry
Brigadier-General, U. S. V.
After the attack on Fort Sumter he helped to organize the 5th
regiment, Maryland Volunteers, of which he was appointed Major.
He served near Hampton Roads after which he was attached to
Mansfield's Corps and participated in the Peninsular Campaign,
and subsequently in Maryland, where his regiment was engaged in
the battle of Antietam, under his command. Here he was shot in
the thigh and confined to his bed for many months. Being disabled
for further military duty President Lincoln appointed him Provost
Marshal of the 3d Maryland District. President Johnson subsequently
promoted him to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S.
Volunteers.
It may not prove inappropriate to mention here the remarks made by
William P. Wood, Esq., one of Washington's best known gentlemen,
with reference to the late General Blumenberg in a communication to
the present writer:
"I was intimate with General Leopold Blumenberg, who commanded in
person the 5th Regiment, Maryland Volunteers; you and others of
his friends are familiar with the deserved encomiums passed upon
that gallant and kind-hearted American Jew, who received terrible
wounds in leading his regiment on the battle-field of Antietam, and
of which wounds he died after having served in several important
positions in Baltimore.
"Without being either Christian or Jew, I am familiar with many
heroes of your faith, and believe in according honor to whom honor
is due. Hoping your work will meet with the success which I believe
the subject-matter warrants, I am
Yours truly,
(Signed) William P. Wood."
FELDSTEIN, S. 2nd Infantry
GROSS, A. F. 2nd Infantry
SEEMAN, JULIUS D. A 2nd Infantry
STERN, LIL. 1st Cavalry
UHLFELDER, SAMUEL G 3d Cavalry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
WHITE, HARMAN 2nd Cavalry
Ordered on detailed service on staff of General Siegel.
MASSACHUSETTS.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ASH, WILLIAM Corporal D 5th Infantry
ADLER, JOSEPH 2nd Cavalry
Served three years.
ABRAHAM, CHARLES B 19th Infantry
ASH, DAVID B. B 19th Infantry
ABRAHAM, BENJAMIN I 21st Infantry
ABRAHAMS, DAVID F 22nd Infantry
ASH, JACOB K 55th Infantry
BOERNSTEIN, HENRY B 42nd Infantry
BLOOM, JULIUS R. A 44th Infantry
BLUMENTHAL, ROBERT B 3d Cavalry
BAUMGARTEN, MORRIS L 4th Cavalry
BOERNSTEIN, MAYER 21st Infantry
BLUMENTHAL, HENRY H 30th Infantry
BRAND, FREDERICK F 35th Infantry
BLOOM, JOSEPH Veteran Reserve
Corps
COHN, JULIUS K 1st Infantry
COHEN, ABRAHAM 20th Infantry
COHEN, JOSEPH 20th Infantry
COHEN, WILLIAM B 21st Infantry
COHN, DAVID F 29th Infantry
COHN, WILLIAM Corporal B 56th Infantry
DESSAUER, JOHN Corporal 3d Cavalry
DIAS, DAVID G 22nd Infantry
DIAS, EMANUEL G 22nd Infantry
DIAS, SAMUEL A. A 38th Infantry
Served three years.
DIAS, EMANUEL Corporal C 3d Heavy
Artillery
EPHRAIM, JOSEPH H. K 31st Infantry
Served four years.
EMANUEL, MICHAEL K 32nd Infantry
FRIEND, JOEL M. A 50th Infantry
FRIEND, ELLIS A. 10th Battalion
FRANKLE, JONAS Brevet 17th Infantry
Brigadier-General
Promoted from Major.
FELDMAN, JULIUS Sergeant F 2nd Cavalry
FRANK, ERNST 2nd Cavalry
FRIEDMAN, LEWIS I 30th Infantry
FRIEND, SOLOMON K 30th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, GOTTLIEB 4th Cavalry
GANS, CHARLES K 4th Cavalry
GUGGENHEIMER, SAMUEL A 13th Infantry
GOLDBERG, JACOB C 20th Infantry
Died in the service.
GLAZIER, JAMES E. F 23d Infantry
Served three years.
GOLDSMITH, ALBERT Corporal C 30th Infantry
GUGGENHEIMER, SAMUEL 32nd Infantry
GERSHEL, MANHEIM Corporal G 34th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, BENJAMIN F. A 59th Infantry
GOTTLIEB, JOSEPH F 4th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, DANIEL, JR. 27th unattached company
GOLDSMITH, DANIEL 1st Heavy Artillery
HESS, HENRY K 1st Infantry
HART, ISAAC C. L 4th Infantry
HART, SAMUEL S. D 1st Heavy Artillery
Served three years.
HERRMAN, JULIUS C 3d Heavy Artillery
HAMMERSLOUGH, EDWARD 1st Cavalry
HART, DANIEL C. F 1st Cavalry
HARTMAN, I. M 3d Cavalry
HERZ, JOSEPH B 20th Infantry
HELLER, LOUIS B 20th Infantry
HART, ISAAC C. D 23d Infantry
HART, DAVID D 27th Infantry
Served three years.
HART, BERNARD D 28th Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB A 35th Infantry
HARRIS, MOSES F 54th Infantry
HART, JOSEPH A 56th Infantry
HART, DAVID A. K 57th Infantry
Died in the service.
HART, DANIEL Veteran Reserve Corps
HOFMAN, JACOB Veteran Reserve Corps
HOFMAN, JOSEPH Veteran Reserve Corps
HERZBERG, ADOLPH
ISAACS, CHARLES E. B 6th Infantry
ISAACS, JOSEPH K 4th Heavy Artillery
ISAACS, JOHN E 11th Infantry
ISAAC, ALEXANDER B 12th Infantry
Killed at Antietam.
ISAAC, W. H. Veteran Reserve Corps
JACOBS, GUSTAV G 18th Infantry
Died in the service.
JOSEPH, EMANUEL C 20th Infantry
JACOBY, FERDINAND G 25th Infantry
JACOBSON, HENRY H 29th Infantry
JOSEPH, JOSEPH M. Veteran Reserve Corps
JOEL, HENRY 3d Heavy Artillery
JACOB, JOSEPH M 3d Cavalry
JOSEPH, HENRY 6th Battery
JACOBS, HENRY Corporal 35th Infantry
JACOBS, JACOB 59th Infantry
KOHN, HENRY Corporal F 3d Infantry
KAUFMAN, LEOPOLD 6th Battalion
Served three years.
KUHN, ISRAEL D 26th Infantry
Served three years.
KUHN, FREDERICK C 32nd Infantry
KLEIN, JULIUS G 32nd Infantry
KOWALTZKI, LUDWIG H 35th Infantry
KOHLER, JACOB Veteran Reserve Corps
KARPELES, LEOPOLD Color Sergeant E 57th Infantry
Enlisted September, 1862 in Company A, 46th Regiment. After
expiration of service re-enlisted in Company E, 57th Massachusetts,
1865. He was wounded at the Battle of North Anna River
(Wilderness), but rejoined his regiment after a short time, though
unable to walk without the aid of a cane, and was finally disabled,
totally, in December, 1864, at Petersburg.
Sergeant Karpeles received a medal of honor from Congress for
distinguished services in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 8,
1864, he having saved a part of the army from being captured during
a retreat in disorder by rallying troops around his colors, thereby
checking the enemy's pursuit.
PITTSFIELD, MASS.,
April 10, 1870.
This is to certify that Leopold Karpeles was a soldier under my
command during part of the late war. My estimation of his good
qualities may be judged from the fact that I entrusted him the
_colors_ of the 57th Massachusetts Infantry.
He was always faithful in the discharge of his duties as a soldier,
and if my certificate to that effect can assist him in getting
employment in some position for which he is qualified, I very
gladly give it.
W. F. BARTLETT,
Late Brigadier-General, U. S. V.,
Brevet Major-General.
* * * * *
CAMP OF THE 46TH REGIMENT M. V. M.
New Berne, N. C., May 17, 1863.
This is to certify that Mr. Leopold Karpeles is a Corporal of
Company A of this regiment. * * * * In the battles of Kingston,
Whitehall and Goldsborough he bore the State colors. The
promptness with which he came upon the line of battle, and the
firmness with which he stood his ground, though his flag was
several times pierced by the bullets of the enemy, were so
conspicuous as to be the subject of remark and commendation.
I have no hesitation in endorsing him as a man who in any position
would only have to know his duty, and he would discharge it to the
best of his ability.
(Signed) S. B. SPOONER,
Major 46th Regiment, Massachusetts V. M.
* * * * *
I very readily give my testimonial to the efficiency and soldierly
qualities of L. Karpeles, within named, having frequently remarked
and observed his alertness, promptness and faithfulness to duty.
(Signed) W. S. SHURTLESS.
Colonel Commanding.
* * * * *
I cheerfully concur in the above.
(Signed) S. B. WALKLEY,
Lieutenant-Colonel 46th Regiment, M. V. M.
* * * * *
FORT GIBSON, INDIAN TERRITORY.
June 1, 1888.
MY DEAR OLD COMRADE AND FRIEND:
Your letter of the 13th of May just received, and I hasten to
reply. I was glad to hear from you and glad to find you still on
the shores of mortality, where our numbers are fast diminishing.
Our duty now lies in planting the principles and memory of the
great struggle in the hearts of generations to follow us, endear
to them the old flag that you carried from the Wilderness to North
Anna, so gallantly and faithfully, and teach them to love their
country which was saved at such a sacrifice.
Yes, Karpeles, I well remember you at the Battle of North Anna; I
remember that you carried the colors of the glorious old "57th,"
far beyond any other colors; your bravery was conspicuous. I
remember that you fell, badly wounded; another Sergeant was sent
to take the colors from you but you refused to give them up but
carried them forward until loss of blood, or another wound, I have
forgotten which, compelled you to give them into the hands of
another. I remember all of this distinctly as I felt justly proud
of you as a Sergeant of Company "E." * * * *.
Please write me and accept my very best wishes.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
JOHN ANDERSON,
1st Lieutenant, 18th Infantry,
U. S. Army.
LEVY, WILLIAM A 10th Infantry
LEHMIER, LOUIS E 11th Infantry
Served three years.
LIPPMAN, JOHN W. E 11th Infantry
Died in service.
LEHMAN, AARON W. K 11th Infantry
LOESTEIN, SIMON B 20th Infantry
LEON, ALEXANDER C 20th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, LOUIS F 20th Infantry
LYON, MARCUS E. I 24th Infantry
Killed at Deep Run, Virginia.
LEVY, DAVID H 26th Infantry
LIPPMAN, CARL N. K 27th Infantry
LEHMAN, ALBERT E 28th Infantry
LEVIN, SIMONCorporal H 30th Infantry
LEVI, RAPHAEL I 30th Infantry
LEO, LOUIS Corporal 35th Infantry
LEVY, JOSEPH 35th Infantry
LEVY, ADOLPH M. F 38th Infantry
Served three years.
LEVINS, MORRIS E 39th Infantry
Served three years.
LYON, JULIUS M. Lieutenant H 42nd Infantry
LYON, CHARLES F. F 42nd Infantry
LEVY, MORRIS C 43d Infantry
LEO, EUGENE A 44th Infantry
LEVY, DAVID 13th Battalion
LEVI, SAMUEL 2nd Heavy Artillery
LEOPOLD, HENRY A. Corporal H 1st Cavalry
LYON, DANIEL L 4th Cavalry
LEVI, SAMUEL F 56th Infantry
Killed at Spottsylvania.
LEWIN, W. H. F 58th Infantry
Died in the service.
LEOPOLD, AUGUST Veteran Reserve Corps
LEVY, BERNARD H. Veteran Reserve Corps
LOEBS, JACOB Veteran Reserve Corps
MARKS, EDWARD 11th Infantry
MAY, SIMON Sergeant D 21st Infantry
MARCUS, HERMAN H 30th Infantry
MEIER, JACOB C 20th Infantry
MAYER, CHARLES A 30th Infantry
MARKS, HENRY 1st Heavy Artillery
MAIER, ADOLPH Veteran Reserve Corps
NUSSBAUM, LEVI D 47th Infantry
NATHAN, JOSEPH B 5th Cavalry
OCHS, JOSEPH A. B 45th Infantry
ROSE, BENJAMIN C 8th Infantry
ROSE, ELI 18th Unattached company
ROSE, BENJAMIN, JR. 27th Unattached company
ROSENAU, HENRY 3d Cavalry
Died in the service.
ROSENTHAL, JACOB L 4th Cavalry
ROSE, ARNOLD 13th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, JOHN Corporal B 40th Infantry
RICH, REUBEN H 56th Infantry
ROSE, SAMUEL Veteran Reserve Corps
ROSE, ABRAHAM Veteran Reserve Corps
SPIEGEL, CHARLES 2nd Infantry
SOLOMON, MORRIS Sergeant A 2nd Infantry
SOLOMON, HENRY Sergeant 10th Infantry
SIMONS, WOLF 10th Infantry
SIMON, FREDERICK E 29th Infantry
SOMMER, ADOLPH 35th Infantry
STEINER, FERDINAND Corporal I 35th Infantry
STEINGARDT, BENJAMIN 38th Infantry
STEINGARDT, DANIEL 38th Infantry
STEINGARDT, JOSEPH 38th Infantry
SAMUELS, SAMUEL D. 7th unattached Company
SAMUEL, JOSEPH 7th unattached Company
SILBERMAN, BARNEY A 47th Infantry
SIMON, JOHN T. Corporal A 50th Infantry
Died in the service.
STEINMAN, LOUIS B 2nd Heavy Artillery
SAMUEL, JOSEPH Sergeant K 4th Heavy Artillery
SAMUELS, SAMUEL D. K 4th Heavy Artillery
SOLOMON, JOSEPH A. D 5th Cavalry
SIMON, DANIEL J. Sergeant B 57th Infantry
SAMUEL, SOLOMON 8th Battalion Light Artillery
VOGEL, HENRY C 20th Infantry
VOGEL, LOUIS I 35th Infantry
VOGEL, FERDINAND K 47th Infantry
WATERMAN, FRANK H 5th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL C 3d Cavalry
WATERMAN, FRANKLIN H 15th Infantry
Died in the service.
WOLF, JOSEPH Sergeant C 20th Infantry
Died of wounds.
WOLF, MICHAEL 20th Infantry
Killed at Cold Harbor.
WATERMAN, BENJAMIN A 24th Infantry
WEISS, JACOB C 24th Infantry
Served four years.
WEISS, JOSEPH D 24th Infantry
WATERMAN, CHARLES Sergeant D 28th Infantry
WATERMAN, FRANKLIN F 34th Infantry
WEISS, REUBEN Veteran Reserve Corps
MICHIGAN.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ASH, MICHAEL I 1st Infantry
BENJAMIN, H. C 4th Cavalry
Died in the service.
BARLOW, ADOLPH C 5th Infantry
BROWN, MOSES E 8th Infantry
Served three years.
BUSH, LEVI K 9th Cavalry
Died in the service.
BUSH, SIMEON M 9th Cavalry
Died in the service.
BLUM, SIMEON 14th Battery
COHEN, CHARLES I 10th Cavalry
FUCHS, DAVID C 1st Infantry
FRANK, SIMEON H. Lieutenant K 1st Infantry
FREUND, JOSEPH A 2nd Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
FRIEDENBERG, JOSEPH H 6th Infantry
Died in the service.
FRIEDENBERG, CHARLES A. E 8th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
FOX, J. H. E 11th Infantry
FRIEDENBURG, ELYAH I 22nd Infantry
FRANK, A. 1st Cavalry
FRIEDENBERG, ALBERT G 5th Cavalry
FRIEDENBERG, BENJAMIN C 7th Cavalry
Died in the service.
FRANK, SIMON H. 1st Lieutenant G 1st Light Artillery
Enlisted as private in K 1st Infantry; re-enlisted in
Battery G; served as non-commissioned officer until
promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
FRIEDLANDER, CHARLES H 1st Light Artillery
GOLDSMITH, GUSTAV F 1st Infantry
GOODMAN, DAVID H 8th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
GOODHEART, JACOB A 9th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ---- Captain 17th Infantry Reserve
GANS, JACOB D 8th Cavalry
GOODMAN, FRANK I 8th Cavalry
HOFMAN, MOSES A 1st Infantry
Died of wounds.
HOFMAN, MOSES G 1st Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB K 1st Infantry
HEINE, JULIUS F 2nd Infantry
HOFMAN, S. 4th Infantry
HOFMAN, S. 4th Infantry
HOFMAN, F. F 4th Infantry
HERRMAN, MARK G 9th Infantry
HARRIS, LIONEL W. B 10th Infantry
HELLER, EMIL A 14th Infantry
HESS, JOSEPH D 16th Infantry
Served three years.
HOFMAN, D. 17th Infantry
HATTENDORF, CHARLES C 3d Cavalry
HAMBURG, FREDERICK L 11th Cavalry
JONAS, H. G 22d Infantry
JONAS, JULIUS G 22d Infantry
KATZ, ISAAC E 1st Infantry
KLEIN, SAMUEL C 2nd Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB C 3d Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB I 5th Infantry
KLEIN, H. 8th Infantry
Killed in action.
KAUFMAN, SIMPSON E 8th Infantry
KING, JOSEPH I 10th Infantry
KLEIN, DAVID E 26th Infantry
Died in the service.
KRONBERG, AUGUST B 10th Cavalry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
KOHN, WILLIAM G 1st Light Artillery
KOHN, M. L 1st Light Artillery
KLEIN, EMANUEL 14th Battery
LAZARUS, DANIEL E 3d Infantry
LEVINGSTON, MEYER F 3d Infantry
Killed on the field of battle.
LIMBERGER, WILLIAM E. F 4th Infantry
LYON, SOLOMON T. Captain 5th Infantry
LYON, EPHRAIM W. Major 8th Infantry
LYON, ISAAC C. A 9th Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
LEVY, NATHAN 1st Lieutenant 10th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
LYONS, ISAAC B. G 11th Infantry
LYON, ASHER G 13th Infantry
LEVY, D. E 16th Infantry
LYON, DAVID H 22nd Infantry
Died in the service.
LYON, HENRY J. H 22nd Infantry
Died in the service.
LYON, DAVID L 1st Light Artillery
Died in the service.
LEWIS, LEVI K 2nd Cavalry
LEVY, NATHAN Lieutenant 3d Cavalry
LYON, AARON D. F 5th Cavalry
Captured; died in Andersonville Prison.
LEWIS, ABRAHAM K 5th Cavalry
LYON, D. 8th Cavalry
LEVY, JOHN C. H 10th Cavalry
LYON, MOSES F. I 10th Cavalry
MOSES, HENRY F 4th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH I 7th Infantry
MARK, LEOPOLD 9th Infantry
MARK, ISAAC C 12th Infantry
Re-enlisted as veteran.
MANDEL, AUGUST G 22nd Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
MANDEL, JULIUS G 22nd Infantry
MANDEL, LOUIS G 22nd Infantry
Died in the service.
MANN, JOSEPH 27th Infantry
Killed at Cold Harbor.
MANDEL, CHARLES 1st Engineers
Served three years.
MAYER, SIMON 1st Engineers
MANN, SOLOMON A 1st Light Artillery
MANN, ELI G 1st Light Artillery
MEYERS, ELISHA G 1st Light Artillery
MAYER, FREDERICK G 1st Light Artillery
MAYER, BENJAMIN K 1st Light Artillery
MEYER, JOSEPH A 8th Cavalry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
MOCK, LEOPOLD 9th Cavalry
MANN, S. 10th Cavalry
MANN, DAVID M 82nd Cavalry
Died in the service.
NATHAM, LEWIS W. B 9th Infantry
NATHAN, C. E 7th Cavalry
NATHANS, LEWIS B 9th Cavalry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
NATHAN, CHARLES W. 16th Cavalry
Killed at Bull Run.
ROTHSCHILD, LEVI I 2nd Infantry
Killed at Petersburg, Virginia.
ROSENFELD, JOHN H 3d Infantry
Died in the service.
ROSE, MOSES C 4th Infantry
Died in the service.
RICE, NATHAN H. K 5th Infantry
ROSENBERG, CORNELIUS C 10th Infantry
Died in the service.
RICH, ANSCHEL B 11th Infantry
RICH, HENRY K 27th Infantry
Killed at Petersburg, Virginia.
RICH, DAVID A 1st Cavalry
Served three years.
RICH, DAVID H 1st Cavalry
Died in the service.
ROSENBERG, C. C 5th Cavalry
STERNBERG, NATHAN K 1st Infantry
STRAUS, LEVI B 5th Infantry
SCHWAB, FRANK K 5th Infantry
STEIN, FREDERICK K 5th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
STRAUS, JACOB E 9th Infantry
STEIN, JOSEPH H 9th Infantry
Re-enlisted as Veteran.
SOLOMON, JOHN G 13th Infantry
STEIN, DANIEL G 17th Infantry
Killed at Spottsylvania.
STERN, ADAM B 1st Light Artillery
STEIN, JACOB C. A 2nd Cavalry
Died in the service.
SOLOMON, JOSHUA K 3d Cavalry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
SACHS, HENRY F 4th Cavalry
SOMMERS, JOSEPH K 8th Cavalry
SCHONEMAN, SAMUEL K 8th Cavalry
SAMPSON, JOEL K 9th Cavalry
SAMPSON A. K 9th Cavalry
VOGEL, JACOB G 27th Infantry
WERTHEIMER, SIMON 1st Infantry
WEINBERG, REUBEN E 11th Infantry
WEINBERG, WILLIAM E 11th Infantry
WEILER, FRANK J. I 6th Cavalry
MISSISSIPPI.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ADLER, MOSES A 10th Infantry
ADAMS, ---- Colonel 2d Cavalry
ASH, JULIUS D 28th Cavalry
AXMAN, ---- Kit Mott's Regiment
AUERBACH, MORRIS 17th Drum Corps
BRADINSKY, ---- Lieutenant 1st Infantry
Served until close of war.
BAUM, DANIEL I 13th Infantry
BLOOM, RAPHAEL G 16th Infantry
BERNHEIM, MORRIS F. Quartermaster 17th Infantry
Sergeant
Promoted from private.
BRUNN, ADOLPH C 18th Infantry
BARUCH, SIMON, DR., Brigade Surgeon 21st Infantry
Appointed to General Barkdale's Division; subsequently
Chief Surgeon of Confederate Hospitals in North Carolina.
BERKSON, THEODORE A 1st Artillery
Captured; when exchanged rejoined his regiment.
BLYTH, ---- Mississippi Battalion
CAHN, WILLIAM G 16th Infantry
DREYFUS, H. 4th Infantry
Enlisted 1861.
DE YOUNG, SIMON H. 4th Infantry
DRYER, H. Sergeant-Major 33d Infantry
Served until close of war
ETTINGER, JOSEPH 2nd Infantry
Died from wounds received at Murfreesboro.
EISEMAN, GUS. Corporal 12th Infantry
Killed; buried at Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
EICHEL, AARON G 16th Infantry
EISENMAN, C. 18th Infantry
Killed at Gaines' Mills, Virginia.
ELSON, JULIUS Mississippi Sharpshooters
FRANK, SA. Major 12th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
FOLTZ, F. 16th Infantry
Killed; buried at Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
FRANKENTHAL, MAX A 16th Infantry
FOLTZ, S. A 16th Infantry
FOLTZ, THEO. 16th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg.
FRAUENHELD, ---- A 16th Infantry
FORSCHHEIMER, B. Warden Artillery
FRANK, THEODORE Steward's Cavalry
FARBUSH, ---- Washington Cavalry
GROSS, CHARLES L. K 13th Infantry
GATTMAN, JACOB C 18th Infantry
GOODMAN, LOUIS H 38th Infantry
Served two years.
GERSON, A. K 44th Infantry
GROSS, EMIL K 44th Infantry
Lost a leg at Shiloh.
GUSDOFER, MARX Warren's Dragoons
GUSDOFER, I. Warren's Dragoons
HIRSCH, LEOPOLD 9th Infantry
HOLBERG, L. F 11th Infantry
Wounded at Manassas.
HANSMAN, M. I 11th Infantry
HORATMEL, LOUIS 12th Infantry
HESSER, LOUIS H 15th Infantry
Wounded at Corinth.
HYMAN, JACOB A 16th Infantry
HILLER, JONAS A 16th Infantry
HERMAN, J. A 16th Infantry
HILLER, WILLIAM A 16th Infantry
HILLER, MAX. A 16th Infantry
HAZEN, HYMAN I 16th Infantry
Killed at Fredericksburg.
HART, M. A 16th Infantry
HART, P. A 16th Infantry
HILL, NATHAN A 16th Infantry
HILLER, NATHAN A 17th Infantry
HAAS, SAMUEL 18th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
HART, JOSEPH K 18th Infantry
HAVERMAN, GABRIEL K 44th Infantry
HIRSCH, JOSEPH Barnes' Battery
HAYES, E. P. H Conner Battery
HESSER, LEO Captain Blight's Battery
Sharpshooters
Promoted at battle of Chickamauga from private.
HOLBERG, JACOB 1st Cavalry
HAAS, S. 2nd Cavalry
HILBORN, B. A 16th Cavalry
HYMAN, B. A 16th Cavalry
HILLER, M. A 16th Cavalry
JACOBS, VICTOR 11th Infantry
JOEL, MORDECAI 18th Infantry
JOEL, MOSES K 18th Infantry
JONAS, CHARLES H.} Barksdale Infantry
JONAS, JULIAN }(Five brothers) Barksdale Infantry
JONAS, HON. B. F.} Louisiana Infantry
JONAS, S. A. } Major Barksdale Infantry
JONAS, EDWARD } (_50th Illinois Infantry_)
KLAUS, A. C 11th Infantry
KRAUS, FREDERICK A 12th Infantry
KAHN, C. J. G 16th Infantry
KAUFMAN, W. M. G 16th Infantry
KAUFMAN, W. G 16th Infantry
KAHN, GABRIEL K 16th Infantry
KAUFMAN, I. A 16th Infantry
KAHN, GUSTAVUS 16th Infantry
Killed; buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
KAUFMAN, HERMAN C 18th Infantry
KUHN, J. D 38th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, LEOPOLD 8th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, M. C 8th Infantry
LEVY, OSCAR S. 10th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; subsequently attached to Army Signal Corps.
LEVENS, LOUIS 11th Infantry
LEVY, ED. 12th Infantry
LOEB, ISIDORE 12th Infantry
LINCOLN, S. 12th Infantry
LOEB, SAMUEL 13th Infantry
LEVY, SOLOMON D 13th Infantry
LOEB, SAMUEL K 13th Infantry
LEVY, ABRAHAM 14th Infantry
LICHENSTEIN, ISAAC A 16th Infantry
LICHENSTEIN, SIMON A 16th Infantry
LEVY, MOSES G 16th Infantry
Killed May 31, 1862; buried in Jewish cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
LONETHEIM, A. J. G 17th Infantry
Discharged for disability.
LEVY, S. K 18th Infantry
LOEB, A. D 38th Infantry
LORSCH, ADOLPH K 44th Infantry
LOWENHAUPT, BENJAMIN 28th Cavalry
LEHMAN, H. F. D 28th Cavalry
LECINSKI, E. L. H 28th Cavalry
LEE, SEYMOUR Washington Cavalry
LEVY, DANIEL S. G 1st Light Artillery
LOWENSTEIN, MARX C 8th Reserves
LEVY, ISRAEL B Ward's Legion
LEVINSON, A. B Ward's Legion
LEVINSON, PAUL B Ward's Legion
LOTTERHOSS, PHILIP Wither's Artillery
Enlisted at eighteen years of age; served with conspicuous
bravery; killed at Kenesaw Mountain.
LOUCHEIM, ABRAHAM 17th Regiment Drum Corps
LEVY, J. C. 17th Drum Corps
MOSES, I. O. G 2nd Infantry
MANSBACH, H. H. 9th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; promoted at Greensboro.
MAYER, D. 10th Infantry
MYERS, ---- Captain 14th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MOOSER, ABRAHAM H 15th Infantry
Wounded four times at Shiloh.
MOCH, ABRAHAM A 16th Infantry
MOAK, C. A 16th Infantry
MOYSE, ISIDORE A 16th Infantry
MYERS, JOHN A 16th Infantry
MEYER, ALEXANDER E 36th Infantry
MOOSER, ISAAC Adjutant Wheeler's Cavalry
Promoted from the ranks.
MEYER, BLUM H Conner's Battery
MYERS, ---- Major, Quartermaster-General
Price's Command
NATUTIOUS, OTTO Captain B Wand's Legion
OURY, S. 10th Infantry
Killed June 16, 1864; buried in Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
PICKARD, M. Warren Guards
PORODAR, SOLOMON Warren Guards
RUBEL, EMANUEL D 19th Infantry
REINACH, DAVID Bolivar Troop Cavalry
ROTH, CHARLES Lieutenant Swamp Ranger
Killed in action.
SCHAEFER, EMILE A 3d Infantry
Appointed Orderly Sergeant; subsequently detached
and served in the Quartermaster's Department.
STONE, E. S. Sergeant D 7th Infantry
SHARP, BENJAMIN F 12th Infantry
SHERCK, LOUIS A 16th Infantry
SAMUELS, A. 17th Infantry
SCHARFF, B. 17th Infantry
STINE, S. E. 17th Infantry
STORM, E. D 28th Cavalry
SHRINSKI, ---- D 28th Cavalry
SULSPACHER, AARON Kit Mott's Regiment
UNGER, SOLOMON H 9th Infantry
ULLMAN, SAMUEL C 16th Infantry
Wounded at Cross Keys, and again at Sharpsburg;
served gallantly through the war; now Rabbi at Birmingham,
Alabama.
URIC, SOLOMON H 16th Infantry
Killed at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
VAN RONKEL, ISAAC 18th Infantry
WILE, M. A 16th Infantry
Served four years.
WEINER, SAMUEL A 16th Infantry
WEIL, CHARLES D 16th Infantry
WEINBERG, JONAS 19th Infantry
WOLFE, M. G Vicksburg Sharpshooters
WEINER, SAMUEL Mississippi Artillery
WATERMAN, LOUIS D 28th Cavalry
WESTHEIMER, MORRIS Jefferson Artillery
Served through war.
WEXLER, PHILIP A 1st Cavalry
WIENER, SOLOMON Carrol Rangers
WILE, SIMON Sergeant Stanford's Battery
Promoted from ranks.
WATERMAN, LEOPOLD Washington Cavalry
MISSOURI.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ANSELM, ALBERT Lieutenant- 3d Infantry
Colonel
BENDER, SAMUEL 3d Infantry
BERKSON, S. 3d Infantry
BOHN, HERMAN G. 5th Cavalry
BOHN, ISAAC G. 2nd Lieutenant 11th Cavalry
BENDEL, HERMAN Captain 12th Infantry
BOERNSTEIN, GUSTAV Captain 41st Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
CARSE, LEVI I 7th Infantry
COHEN, ALBERT B. Captain 11th Cavalry
COHN, L. Home Guard
DARMSTADER, LOUIS CAPTAIN 17th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
EPSTEIN, MAX.1st Infantry
EISEMAN, ANTHONY Captain 12th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
ERDMAN, ADOLPH Quartermaster 15th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
EPPSTEIN, FRANCIS 2nd Lieutenant 48th Infantry
EPPSTEIN, JOSEPH A. Lieutenant- 5th Cavalry
Colonel
EDEMAN, MICHAEL S. 1st Lieutenant { 5th Cavalry
{ 12th Cavalry
FRIEDLEIN, GEORGE D. Captain 3d Infantry
FALK, HENRY 2nd Lieutenant 48th Infantry
FRANK, PHILIP Captain 4th Cavalry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
FRANK, CHARLES 2nd Lieutenant 2d U. S. R. C.
FRIEDLEIN, GEORGE G. 1st Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
FURTH, SAMUEL Home Guard
GUTMAN, LOUIS E 3d Infantry
Served three years.
GREENBAUM, SIMON D 7th Infantry
HARTMAN, J. 1st Infantry
HOLZMAN, SAMUEL I 1st Infantry
HOMBURG, S. Adjutant 4th Infantry
HERRMAN, THEODORE Captain 12th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
HESS, FERDINAND 1st Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant; also Adjutant 1st Battery
HAMBURGER, HENRY 2nd Lieutenant 13th Cavalry
HOFMAN, JOSEPH 1st Lieutenant 1st Artillery
HURWITZ, HARMAN General Lyon's Body-guard
JACOBS, PHILIP H 1st Infantry
Received Medal of Honor.
JACOBS, EMIL K 8th Infantry
JACOBY, MORRIS 2nd Lieutenant 7th Infantry
KLEIN, MOSES Captain 13th Infantry
KEMPINSKI, A. Captain 49th Infantry
Served four years.
KEMPINSKI, LEO F 49th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ALBERT B. { Captain { 11th Cavalry
{ Major { 10th Cavalry
KLEIN, BERNHART 1st Lieutenant 2nd U. S. R. C.
KOCH, JULIUS 1st Lieutenant 4th U. S. R. C.
LIEBSCHUTZ, A. C 2nd Infantry
LIPMAN, LOUIS 1st Lieutenant 8th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, I. S. G 18th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, CHARLES 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Artillery
LEVISTEINE, ISAAC M. Lieutenant L 2nd Artillery
Died from wounds received in action.
LEVI, SOLOMON I. Captain 1st Cavalry
Appointed by Governor Clark, of Missouri (1839), of
the 1st Militia.
LEVI, JACOB J. 6th Cavalry
LIEBERMAN, LORENZO 1st Lieutenant 1st U. S. R. C.
MONTZHEIM, JULIUS 1st Lieutenant 17th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
MEYER, B. F. 24th Infantry
MOHSBERG, A. G 41st Infantry
MEYER, LOUIS F 49th Infantry
MANN, CHARLES { 2nd
{ Lieutenant { 11th Cavalry
{ Major { 1st Artillery
MOSES, T. W. Quartermaster 14th Cavalry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MANDELBAUM, FRANK Home Guards
MANDELBAUM, JOHN W. Home Guards
MANDELBAUM, S. E. Home Guards
NEWDORF, JULIUS 1st Lieutenant 2nd Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
ROSENSTEIN, D. W. Captain 1st Infantry
RINDSKOPF, T. 1st Cavalry
RINDSKOPF, I. A 1st Cavalry
ROSENBAUM, H. A. 1st Lieutenant 29th Infantry
RAPHAEL, JACOB 1st Light Artillery
Served three years.
SINGER, DAVID D 1st Infantry
Served three years.
SICHER, WILLIAM C 2nd Infantry
SIMON, JOSEPH G 2nd Infantry
SOLOMON, CHARLES E. Colonel 5th Infantry
SOLOMON, FREDERICK Captain 5th Infantry
SCHWERINER, THEODORE H 8th Infantry
Wounded in Arkansas; totally disabled at Vicksburg.
STEINBERG, O. Captain 12th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
STERNBERG, E. F 17th Infantry
STEIN, GEORGE W. 1st Lieutenant 21st Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
STEINAN, EMANUEL 21st Infantry
Not being of sufficient measurement his offer to enlist was
refused; but determined to fight for his adopted country, he
followed his regiment in which many personal friends had enlisted,
until finally he was mustered in.
SOMMERS, HERMAN 1st Lieutenant 41st Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
SLINSKY, LOUIS F 49th Infantry
SIMONS, A. A 2nd Cavalry
SINSHEIMER, A. H. G 2nd Cavalry
Enlisted at eighteen years of age.
STEINMAN, E. H. Captain 5th Cavalry
SANDERS, FRANK 2nd Lieutenant 7th Cavalry
SOLOMON, G. A. M. 1st Lieutenant 8th Cavalry
SALTZMAN, GUSTAV 2nd Lieutenant 1st Engineers
SALTZMAN, SIEGMUND 2nd Lieutenant 1st Artillery
STUGER, DAVID D Bender Cadets
TAKRZEWSKI, HERMAN Captain 2nd U. S. R. C.
NEVADA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ISSERMAN, T. W. A 1st Cavalry
JACOBS, SIMON L. A 1st Cavalry
MANHEIM, DAVID Colonel 1st Cavalry
Enlisted as private; promoted step by step.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
COHN, ABRAHAM Adjutant 6th Infantry
enlisted as private; promoted for efficiency and distinguished
bravery to Sergeant and Adjutant; wounded at Petersburg; the
recipient of the Congressional "Medal of Honor;" served until the
close of the war.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, August 24, 1865.
SIR:
Herewith I enclose the "Medal of Honor" which has been awarded to
you by the Secretary of War, under the resolution of Congress,
approved July 12, 1862. To provide for the presentation of "Medals
of Honor" to the enlisted men of the army and volunteer forces who
have distinguished or may distinguish themselves in battle during
the present rebellion.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
To Sergeant-Major ABRAHAM COHN,
6th N. H. Veteran Volunteers,
439, 8th Avenue, New York.
* * * * *
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON. August 14, 1879.
The medal mentioned within was given for conspicuous gallantry
displayed in the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, in rallying
and forming under heavy fire disorganized troops; also for bravery
and coolness in carrying orders to the advance lines under
murderous fire in the battle of the Mine, July 20, 1864.
(Signed) S. N. BENJAMIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
* * * * *
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
CONCORD, August 17, 1865.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
I take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the faithful services
of Adjutant Abraham Cohn, both as a private and as an officer in
the late 6th Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers Infantry. His
record in connection with this regiment has been one of great
fidelity and ability and his successive promotions have been well
merited rewards. I am also happy to bear testimony to the untiring
industry and literary ability which Adjutant Cohn has displayed in
collecting data for an official history of the Sixth Regiment, New
Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
Very Respectfully,
(Signed) NATT HEAD.
(NATT HEAD, subsequently Adjutant, Inspector and Quartermaster, became
Governor of the State of New Hampshire.)
* * * * *
KEENE, N. H., November 23, 1865.
This certifies that Abraham Cohn enlisted in the 6th New Hampshire
Volunteers, of which regiment I was the Colonel, on the 5th day
of January, 1864, and very soon after joined the command in the
State of Kentucky. He at once attracted the attention and won the
approbation of his officers by his soldierly bearing and faithful
performance of duty, as well as by his accomplishments in being
able to communicate with recruits from European countries in their
own various languages.
On the 28th day of March, 1864, he was promoted to the position of
Sergeant-Major of the regiment, and throughout the great campaign
that followed--from the Rapidan to the capture of Petersburg and
Richmond--displayed remarkable bravery and coolness in action,
endurance in the field and efficiency in his office.
He was wounded at the "battle of the Mine" in front of Petersburg,
July 30, 1864, where he won a "Medal of Honor" for his
distinguished bravery awarded by the War Department.
In appreciation of his meritorious services during this campaign
he was promoted to the rank of Adjutant of his regiment, in which
capacity he remained until the close of the war, winning the
esteem and admiration of all who knew him by his gentlemanly and
officer-like deportment, his sobriety and integrity, and by his
noble devotion to the cause of the country of his adoption.
(Signed) S. G. GRIFFIN.
Late Brigadier-General and Brevet Major-General U. S. Volunteers.
S. G. GRIFFIN was subsequently elected Speaker of the House of
Representatives of New Hampshire.
ROME, C. M. E 4th Infantry
NEW JERSEY.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ASH, JOSEPH W. K 1st Infantry
ABRAHAM, C. S. 2nd Lieutenant B 1st Infantry
Enlisted as private.
ABRAHAM, AARON K 1st Infantry
AARONSON, NAPOLEON B 4th Infantry
AARONSON, FREDERICK 2nd Lieutenant B 4th Infantry
ADLER, HERMAN C 5th Infantry
ABRAMS, ISAAC N. K 7th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, JOSEPH Corporal B 10th Infantry
Wounded in action.
ADLER, MORRIS G 15th Infantry
AARONSON, BENJAMIN Corporal I 23d Infantry
ADLER, HENRY B 24th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Fredericksburg.
ASH, W. H. C 26th Infantry
ABRAHAM, BENJAMIN E 33d Infantry
ALEXANDER, DAVID D 34th Infantry
ARNOLD, JOSEPH K 34th Infantry
Died in the service.
ASCH, MYER Brevet Major 1st Cavalry
Promoted from Adjutant for gallant and meritorious
conduct.
ADLER, LEOPOLD Veteran Reserve Corps
ADLER, ISIDOR Battery A
BUXBAUM, WILLIAM D 2nd Infantry
BLANKENSTEIN, LEVI D 10th Infantry
BAUM, JACOB I 11th Infantry
BALL, ABRAHAM S. C 13th Infantry
Served three years.
BACHMAN, SAMUEL D 13th Infantry
BUSH, AARON Corporal E 22nd Infantry
BALL, ISAAC K 26th Infantry
BAER, FREDERICK E 29th Infantry
BERNHEIM, WILLIAM C 30th Infantry
BACHMAN, WILLIAM H. A 31st Infantry
BLOOM, ISAAC F 31st Infantry
BACHMAN, SAMUEL I 31st Infantry
BALL, AARON I 35th Infantry
Died in the service.
BLUHM, JACOB B 35th Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
BIEN, ALPHONSE I 39th Infantry
BAUM, FREDERICK B 40th Infantry
BAUER, JACOB B 3d Cavalry
BACHMAN, SAMUEL F 3d Cavalry
BAER, AUGUST Battery C
BAER, MAX Veteran Reserve
Corps
BARNETT, MORRIS C 66th Infantry
COHEN, THOMAS D 10th Infantry
COHN, HARRIS G 10th Infantry
COHN, GEORGE H 13th Infantry
COHEN, EDWARD C 34th Infantry
COHEN, ISAAC E 1st Cavalry
DANNENBERGER, JOSEPH Corporal A 2nd Infantry
Enlisted as private.
DAVIDSON, DAVID Sergeant G 38th Infantry
ECKSTEIN, SIEGMUND C 8th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Petersburg.
ENGEL, JACOB K 13th Infantry
ERDMAN, LOUIS B 33d Infantry
EPPSTEIN, DANIEL Sergeant A 34th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
ELLINGER, EMANUEL F 34th Infantry
ETTINGER, MARK F 34th Infantry
ELSAS, JACOB D 3d Cavalry
Wounded at Mount Jackson, Virginia.
ERDMAN, HENRY Corporal K 3d Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
FRANK, CHARLES F 1st Infantry
FOX, SOLOMON J. C 2nd Infantry
Served three years.
FOX, JACOB A 4th Infantry
FEEDER, HENRY K 7th Infantry
FOX, ISAAC Corporal I 12th Infantry
Killed near Petersburg.
FRIEBERG, HENRY F 15th Infantry
FEEDER, MORRIS C 22nd Infantry
FRANK, FREDERICK K 35th Infantry
FREUND, GUSTAV A 39th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB Sergeant B 39th Infantry
FALK, JACOB B 39th Infantry
FREUND, AUGUST B 39th Infantry
FREUND, THEODORE F 1st Cavalry
FRIEDLANDER, CHARLES B 2nd Cavalry
Captured; died in Andersonville.
FUCHS, EUGENE Sergeant D 3d Cavalry
Enlisted as private.
FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM Battery A
GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM G 2nd Infantry
Captured; died at Andersonville.
GREEN, JACOB I 5th Infantry
GLUCKAUL, JACOB A 8th Infantry
GOLDBERG, CHARLES F 1st Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, CHARLES G 2nd Cavalry
Died in service.
GOLDMAN, CHARLES I 2nd Cavalry
HAAS, BERNHARD 1st Infantry
HERZOG, LOUIS K 1st Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB H. 2nd Lieutenant B 2nd Infantry
HAHN, MORRIS S. 2nd Lieutenant D 2nd Infantry
HERMAN, CHARLES B 2nd Infantry
HART, DAVID B 2nd Infantry
HERRMAN, EMIL E 2nd Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB E 2nd Infantry
HEINEMAN, HERMAN { H 2nd Infantry
{ K 15th Infantry
HIRSCHFELD, ALFRED { K 2d Infantry
{ K 14th Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB A 4th Infantry
Served three years.
HOFMAN, SAMUEL H 4th Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB I 4th Infantry
HOFMAN, LEVI W. I 7th Infantry
HOFMAN, AARON Sergeant H 8th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
HOFMAN, ABRAHAM H 8th Infantry
HOFMAN, ELIAS H 8th Infantry
HAYS, DAVID I 10th Infantry
HAAS, JACOB G 10th Infantry
HARRIS, ABRAHAM M. Corporal D 13th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
HELLER, JOSEPH C 13th Infantry
HARTMAN, REUBEN Sergeant H 23d Infantry
HOFMAN, BENJAMIN D 24th Infantry
HELLER, ADOLPH D 24th Infantry
HAHN, HENRY B 26th Infantry
HART, JOSEPH S. B 27th Infantry
HART, NOAH L. B 28th Infantry
HARRIS, ABRAHAM C. H 30th Infantry
HART, ABRAHAM K 30th Infantry
HOFMAN, DAVID A 31st Infantry
HAMBURG, AUGUST E 33d Infantry
HIRSCH, FERDINAND F 33d Infantry
HEYMAN, HENRY I 35th Infantry
HENMAN, JOSEPH K 35th Infantry
HESS, JOSEPH I 40th Infantry
HART, JACOB A 1st Cavalry
HART, DAVID H 1st Cavalry
HARRIS, ABRAHAM SERGEANT I 1st Cavalry
Enlisted as Private; served four years.
HARRIS, BENJAMIN C 2nd Cavalry
HIRSCH, FREDERICK E 2nd Cavalry
HART, SAMUEL I 2nd Cavalry
HARRIS, ELIAS M 2nd Cavalry
HOFMAN, AARON A 3d Cavalry
HERRMAN, GUSTAV C 3d Cavalry
HARRIS, DAVID G 3d Cavalry
HARRIS, SAMUEL H 3d Cavalry
HERZBERG, ALBERT Captain I 3d Cavalry
HIRSCH, LOUIS K 3d Cavalry
ISAAC, HENRY H 3d Infantry
JACOBY, AUGUST D 2nd Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBY, FRITZ 4th Infantry
JACOBSON, CHARLES A 4th Infantry
JOSEFF, EMANUEL E 4th Infantry
JOSEFF, PHILIP E 4th Infantry
JACOBSON, WILLIAM E. B 8th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBSON, ISRAEL J. K 11th Infantry
Captured; died at Libby Prison.
JACOBUS, ABRAHAM F 15th Infantry
JACOBY, SAMUEL I 28th Infantry
Died of wounds.
JACOBSON, W. E. Corporal D 38th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
JACOBSON, LOUIS D 40th Infantry
JACOB, D. A 1st Artillery
KING, MOSES W. G 1st Infantry
KAUFMAN, ADOLPH K 1st Infantry
KAUFMAN, FREDERICK C 2nd Infantry
KAMINZKY, JOSEPH D 2nd Infantry
KATZENBERG, JOSEPH B 4th Infantry
KOCH, JACOB K 7th Infantry
KING, ASHER Corporal C 8th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
KLEIN, MANUEL 2nd Lieutenant A 15th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
KING, ABRAHAM G. B 15th Infantry
Killed at Spottsylvania.
KLEIN, JULIUS A 21st Infantry
KING, AARON A 25th Infantry
KING, JACOB C 25th Infantry
KOHN, LEIB I 35th Infantry
KLEIN, BENJAMIN G 38th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JACOB B 40th Infantry
KAUFMAN, SAMUEL 5th Hancock's Corps
KATZ, JACOB D 2nd Cavalry
KOCH, GOTTLIEB I 3d Cavalry
KOEHLER, ELIAS K 3d Cavalry
KOCH, HERMAN Battery C
LYON, BENJAMIN D 1st Infantry
LINDEMAN, ADOLPH K 1st Infantry
LOWENTHAL, GEORGE K 1st Infantry
LILIENDALL, GUSTAV Captain D 2nd Infantry
LOEB, LOUIS I 3d Infantry
Leg amputated.
LEO, CHARLES C 4th Infantry
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM B 5th Infantry
LIMBURGER, ALBERT H 5th Infantry
Died in the service.
LOEB, JOHN E. Sergeant I 6th Infantry
LOEB, W. W. I 6th Infantry
LYON, SAMUEL C 7th Infantry
LEVY, JOSEPH I 8th Infantry
LEAVY, CHARLES M. 9th Infantry
LEVY, WILLIAM P. K 9th Infantry
LICHTENFELZ, LUDWIG I 12th Infantry
LANGENDORF, JACOB A 13th Infantry
LEVI, DAVID B 13th Infantry
Served four years.
LEHMAN, CHARLES F 14th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, LEWIS C 22nd Infantry
LEVI, MARCUS C 26th Infantry
LEVI, MORRIS I 30th Infantry
LEVI, HERMAN J. G 34th Infantry
LYON, SAMUEL C 35th Infantry
LIMBURGER, DAVID K 35th Infantry
LIMBURGER, W. H. K 35th Infantry
LEVINE, WILLIAM F 40th Infantry
LEVI, MAX C 1st Cavalry
LEVI, MORRIS D 1st Cavalry
Died in the service
MENDEL, JACOB K 1st Infantry
MARX, CHARLES E 2nd Infantry
MAYER, JACOB G 2nd Infantry
MARX, AUGUST F 3d Infantry
MAYER, FRANK D 7th Infantry
Died in the service.
MARX, MARTIN Corporal B 7th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
MEYER, JACOB Corporal H 9th Infantry
Served three years.
MARKS, EMANUEL B 10th Infantry
MEIER, HENRY C 11th Infantry
MEYERS, JACOB Sergeant G 11th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville.
MAYERS, JACOB E 15th Infantry
MAAS, FREDERICK W. E 22nd Infantry
MARKS, JOSEPH D 29th Infantry
Died in the service.
MAYER, SAMUEL E 29th Infantry
MENDEL, WILLIAM B 30th Infantry
MARKS, JOSEPH C. F 38th Infantry
MAYER, JACOB I 40th Infantry
MAYER, AUGUST Battery A
MANN, FERDINAND Battery C
MEYER. ADOLPH 2nd Lieutenant 1st Regiment,
Hancock's Corps
Promoted from Sergeant.
MARKS, FREDERICK 1st Regiment,
Hancock's Corps
NAUMAN, GUSTAV F 9th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, MICHAEL H 10th Infantry
NEWMAN, DAVID M. Corporal I 29th Infantry
NAUMAN, JULIUS Corporal I 31st Infantry
Enlisted as private.
NAUMAN, JULIUS I 35th Infantry
NEUSTADT, MAX C 66th Infantry
OPPENHEIM, DAVID K 1st Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, JACOB Battery C
PINCUS, ADOLPH K 7th Infantry
PINCUS, SIMON C 66th Infantry
ROSE, ELIAS M. C 1st Infantry
ROSENBORGER, JOHN D 4th Infantry
Captured; died at Andersonville.
RICE, DAVID S. B 5th Infantry
Captured.
RAPHAEL, WILLIAM I 8th Infantry
Died in the service.
ROSE, DANIEL M. I 8th Infantry
ROSE, ABRAHAM H. F 9th Infantry
ROSE, SAMUEL E 11th Infantry
ROSE, HENRY D 14th Infantry
ROSE, SAMUEL B. F 14th Infantry
Died in the service.
RICE, DAVID A 21st Infantry
ROSENDALE, GEORGE B 30th Infantry
ROSENDALE, GEORGE A 35th Infantry
RUBENSTEIN, SAMUEL K 1st Cavalry
ROSENBERG, JOHN G 2nd Cavalry
ROSE, BENJAMIN A 3d Cavalry
RICE, JACOB D 2nd Cavalry
ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN Veteran Reserve Corps
SOLOMON, CHARLES A 1st Infantry
SAMPSON, DAVID A 2nd Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
STEIN, GUSTAV H 2nd Infantry
SALMON, ABRAHAM 1st Lieutenant A 3d Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
SOLOMON. SAMUEL D. G 3d Infantry
SALZMAN, LOUIS K 3d Infantry
SACHS, HENRY H 5th Infantry
STRAUS, CHARLES H 5th Infantry
STRAUSS, JONATHAN G 6th Infantry
STERN, JOSEPH H 7th Infantry
SPANNENGBERG, MOSES I 7th Infantry
SPANNENGBERG, WILLIAM I 7th Infantry
SICKLES, SOLOMON H 14th Infantry
STEIN, JACOB A 14th Infantry
SALMON, LEWIS A. Sergeant F 15th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
SIMON, ADOLPH G 21st Infantry
STRAUSS, WILLIAM C 22nd Infantry
STINE, ISAAC K 27th Infantry
STEINFELD, HARRY C 34th Infantry
SIMONS, LEWIS I 34th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
SOLINGER, LEE K 35th Infantry
SACHS, ABRAHAM B 40th Infantry
SACHS, NOAH B 40th Infantry
STRAUSS, NATHANIEL E 40th Infantry
STEIN, HERMAN Veteran Reserve Corps
SACKS, DAVID Battery A
Died in the service.
STEIN, HERMAN SERGEANT Battery C
Entered as Private.
WOLF, NATHANIEL D 1st Infantry
WEISS, ADOLPH Captain A 2nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
WOLF, CHARLES I 4th Infantry
WOLF, HERMAN F 8th Infantry
WOLF, HENRY A 9th Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH Corporal I 9th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL B 27th Infantry
WOLF, FERDINAND Lieutenant C 27th Infantry
WOLF, DAVID Corporal A 33d Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
WEIL, JOSEPH I 33d Infantry
WOLF, SELIG B 39th Infantry
WEILER, JOSEPH R 39th Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH K 40th Infantry
WEISS, AARON I 1st Cavalry
WOLF, GUSTAV I 3d Cavalry
WOLF, FREDERICK I 3d Cavalry
WOLF, DAVID Militia
NEW MEXICO.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
KAHN, EMIL M. F 7th Infantry
Killed at Fort Laramie by Indians.
MAYER, ADOLPH A. Inspector-General 4th Infantry
Promoted for efficiency Inspector-General, and by special
appointment of President Lincoln assigned toPennsylvania.
NEW YORK.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ABRAHAM, EDWARD I 1st Infantry
ASHER, WILLIAM G 3d Infantry
ASSENHEIMER, O. C. B 5th Infantry
ADLER, HEINRICH I 8th Infantry
ARENSON, DANIEL D 9th Infantry
ASH, JACOB B 13th Infantry
APPLE, SALOMON D 20th Infantry
AUGUST, SIMON A 24th Infantry
ADLER, SIMON E 25th Infantry
ABRAMS, WILLIAM H. H 27th Infantry
ARNHEIM, JULIUS I 29th Infantry
ABRAMS, ANDREW K 30th Infantry
ABRAMS, JOHN K 30th Infantry
ADLER, ISIDOR C 31st Infantry
ARNOLD, DAVID 35th Infantry
ARNOLD, EPHRAIM H 36th Infantry
AARON, LEWIS B 38th Infantry
ARNZ, J. 39th Infantry
ALEXANDER, SAMUEL H 39th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, ABRAHAM D 40th Infantry
ARNOLD, H. C 41st Infantry
ARNOLD, GUSTAVE G 41st Infantry
ALEXANDER, JOSEPH I 41st Infantry
ASHER, JACOB H. C 44th Infantry
ARNOLD, LOUIS G 45th Infantry
ANSEL, JACOB H 45th Infantry
ALTMAN, JOSEPH I 46th Infantry
AARON, GABRIEL B 47th Infantry
ABRAMS, AUGUST B 48th Infantry
ALEXANDER, EPHRAIM R 50th Infantry
AARONS, GEORGE H 53d Infantry
ADLER, JOSEPH F 54th Infantry
AUFANGER, SIEGMUND H 54th Infantry
ASCHER, SAMUEL Lieutenant H 54th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
AUERBACH, JOSEPH 5th Cavalry
Killed at Fredericksburg.
ABRAHAMS, EDWARD F 57th Infantry
ARNOLD, JACOB G 64th Infantry
ALTENBURG, MORRIS H 64th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, HENRY F 67th Infantry
ASHER, PHILIP Sergeant I 68th Infantry
ASHER, ADOLPH Sergeant K 68th Infantry
ASHER, LOUIS Sergeant K 68th Infantry
AUERBACH, J. 68th Infantry
ABRAMS, JAMES C 70th Infantry
ARNOLD, AARON B 72nd Infantry
ACKERMAN, JOSEPH G 73d Infantry
ARNOLD, FRANK A 76th Infantry
ARNOLD, DAVID W. A 76th Infantry
ACKERMAN, JACOB A 78th Infantry
ARNOLD, NATHAN K. Lieutenant 79th Infantry
ACKERMAN, A. A 83d Infantry
ABRAMS, GEORGE K 88th Infantry
ABRAMS, EDWARD Corporal A 95th Infantry
ABRAMS, W.B. F 97th Infantry
ARNOLD, NATHAN J. A 100th Infantry
ALEXANDER, JACOB F 100th Infantry
ASHER, M. S. 103d Infantry
ABRAHAM, JOSEPH A 112th Infantry
ALEXANDER, OSCAR I 115th Infantry
ABRAHAM, MOSES E 119th Infantry
ABRAMS, DANIEL H 122nd Infantry
ANTHONY, A. 131st Infantry
ASH, MORRIS C 132nd Infantry
ASH, DAVID K 142nd Infantry
ARNOLD, MARCUS I 146th Infantry
ARNOLD, DANIEL W. Sergeant A 151st Infantry
ABRAMS, LEVI D 158th Infantry
ABRAHAM, LEVY Lieutenant H 164th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, JOSEPH S. Lieutenant 164th Infantry
Killed at Cold Harbor.
ACKERMAN, ABRAHAM K 170th Infantry
ADLER, ALBERT Corporal G 178th Infantry
ACKERMAN, LEWIS Lieutenant I 189th Infantry
ADELMAN, EUGENE B 5th S. V.
ABRAHAM, HENRY F 5th S. V.
ASH, SAMUEL B 7th S. V.
ABRAHAM, THEO. A 25th S. M.
ACKERMAN, GUSTAVE Corporal A 4th Cavalry
ABABOT, DAVID Lieutenant B 5th Cavalry
ABRAHAM, AARON B 7th Cavalry
ABRAMS, W. H. Sergeant G 9th Cavalry
ACKERMAN, DAVID R. Corporal C 11th Cavalry
ADLER, ISIDOR Corporal F 14th Cavalry
ALEXANDER, EPHRAIM D 15th Cavalry
ARNOLD, JACOB D 20th Cavalry
ARNDT, ALBERT Major 1st Battalion Artillery
Killed at Sharpsburg.
ABRAMS, SAMUEL A 1st Mounted Rifles
ARNOLD, BENJAMIN E 9th Artillery
ABRAMS, MAURICE A 16th Artillery
ABRAHAM, MOSES 3d Independent Artillery
ADLER, SAMUEL 9th Independent Artillery
ANSBACHER, MOSES 24th Independent Artillery
BARNARD, LEON Captain G 1st Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant; transferred 9th Infantry.
BLUMENSTEIN, J. 4th Infantry
BLUMENTHAL, J. 4th Infantry
BENJAMIN, EMANUEL A 4th Infantry
BENJAMIN, LEVY B 4th Infantry
BERNSTEIN, JACOB D 4th Infantry
BERNSTEIN, MARK G 4th Infantry
BARNETT, SAMUEL K 4th Infantry
BACHARACH, JULIUS 6th Infantry
BORCHARD, NEWMAN K 6th Infantry
BEHREND, WILLIAM Captain A 7th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
BERNHARD, FRANK C 7th Infantry
BADER, ADOLPH D 7th Infantry
BERNHARD, MORITZ F 7th Infantry
BLUM, JACOB I 7th Infantry
BARUCH, BERNHARD K 7th Infantry
BEISHEIM, THEODORE 1st Lieutenant 8th Infantry
BEHREND, M. C 8th Infantry
BERNHARD, EDWARD 1st Lieutenant 11th Infantry
BAHR, FRANK B 12th Infantry
BERNHARDT, ALEXANDER F 16th Infantry
BALL, FELIX F 18th Infantry
BACHMAN, JOSEPH C 20th Infantry
BEHRENS, GUSTAVE H 20th Infantry
BIEN, MARTIN F 23d Infantry
BENJAMIN, DAVID W. G 26th Infantry
BACHMAN, SIEGMUND E 27th Infantry
BERNE, MAX Lieutenant 29th Infantry
BRANDEIS, H. 38th Infantry
BLUHM, JACOB B 39th Infantry
BERLINER, SIEGMUND F 39th Infantry
BAER, BERNHARD Captain H 39th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
BEHRENS, AUGUST H 39th Infantry
BERNHARD, ADAM H 39th Infantry
BROD, HERMAN 39th Infantry
BARNETT, DANIEL B 40th Infantry
BEHRENDS, HERMAN D 41st Infantry
BRESLAUER, CHARLES D 41st Infantry
Wounded in the head and abdomen, killed in action
at 2nd Battle Bull Run.
BERNSTEIN, LOUIS CORPORAL I 41st Infantry
BEER, JACOB B 42nd Infantry
BARNETT, SAMUEL C 42nd Infantry
BAEHR, WILLIAM 45th Infantry
BAUM, JOSEPH B 45th Infantry
BLUM, JACOB H 45th Infantry
BERNHARD, JOSEPH A 52nd Infantry
BLOCK, JULIUS G 52nd Infantry
BLOCK, LOUIS G 52nd Infantry
BERNHARD, JOSEPH E 53d Infantry
BERNSTEIN, JOSEPH G 54th Infantry
BLOCK, EMIL C 55th Infantry
BRUCKHEIMER, MOSES { 6th Infantry
{D 55th Infantry
Disabled in the service.
BENJAMIN, CHARLES G 55th Infantry
BOSCOWITZ, C. J. D 56th Infantry
BASH, ADOLPH Lieutenant 58th Infantry
BAUM, ADOLPH C 58th Infantry
BLUMENTHAL, WILLIAM I 58th Infantry
BERNHARD, ISIDOR A 62nd Infantry
BAACH, JACOB Corporal F 62nd Infantry
(Anderson's Zouaves')
Wounded at Fredericksburg and at the Wilderness.
BERLINER, SOLOMON K 62nd Infantry
BACHARACH, MAX. D 63d Infantry
BARNETT, MORRIS 66th Infantry
BAMBERGER, JOSEPH E 66th Infantry
BIRNBAUM, ADOLPH Lieutenant 68th Infantry
BENJAMIN, GOTTLIEB K 68th Infantry
BRUNN, JACOB Captain E 70th Infantry
Killed at Williamsburg.
BEHREND, A. 72nd Infantry
BENJAMIN, ISAAC, JR. B 75th Infantry
BENJAMIN, ISAAC B 78th Infantry
BENJAMIN, OSCAR A. I 81st Infantry
BENJAMIN, HENRY C 87th Infantry
BARNETT, ISAAC 90th Infantry
Severely wounded.
BUXBAUM, JULIUS D 91st Infantry
BENJAMIN, DANIEL H. E 92nd Infantry
BENJAMIN, DANIEL A 93d Infantry
BENJAMIN, JOEL A 93d Infantry
BASH, J. 98th Infantry
BARNHART, BENJAMIN 98th Infantry
BLOOMINGDALE, ALEXANDER C 102nd Infantry
BAER, LEOPOLD C 103d Infantry
BERLINER, MEIER Sergeant F 103d Infantry
BERKENMEYER, A. G 103d Infantry
BEAR, FRANK Sergeant G 110th Infantry
BENJAMIN, JOSEPH W. H 117th Infantry
BEHRENS, L. 119th Infantry
BACHMAN, ADOLPH H 119th Infantry
BLOOMINGTON, EMIL K 119th Infantry
BENJAMIN, FRANK L. F 121st Infantry
BENJAMIN, ELISHA B 124th Infantry
BLOOMINGDALE, JOSEPH D 125th Infantry
BACHMAN, JACOB H. Corporal I 126th Infantry
BENJAMIN, MARCUS K 126th Infantry
BENJAMIN, A. Lieutenant D 131st Infantry
Killed at Port Hudson.
BLUM, ABRAHAM A 132nd Infantry
BEHRENS, JOSEPH 135th Infantry
BENJAMIN, DAVID K 138th Infantry
BERNHARD, HERMAN C 143d Infantry
BAER, FRANK Lieutenant G 147th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
BRONNER, SAMUEL Lieutenant A 149th Infantry
BAMBERG, FREDERICK C 178th Infantry
BENJAMIN, DAVID C 179th Infantry
BACHMAN, JACOB E 187th Infantry
BERNARD, JOSEPH E. I 188th Infantry
BERNHEIM, JULIUS K 1st Independent
BLUM, JACOB K 5th S. V.
BEHR, ISAAC F 7th S. V.
BERLINER, SIEGMUND M. I. 1ST LIEUTENANT 17th S. V.
reorganized
BERNSTEIN, MORRIS F 22nd S. M.
BACHMAN, JOSEPH Corporal G 1st Cavalry
BERLINER, EMIL I 1st Cavalry
BEHREND, MORITZ Battalion 4th Cavalry
Quartermaster
BAUER, MORITZ M 4th Cavalry
BLANK, SIMON H 6th Cavalry
BACHMAN, FREDERICK H 8th Cavalry
BERKOWITZ, LEON B 13th Cavalry
BERKOWITZ, ISIDOR Corporal D 13th Cavalry
BLOOMINGDALE, DAVID D 21st Cavalry
BACHMAN, FREDERICK F 22nd Cavalry
BLUM, E. 25th Cavalry
BAER, JACOB I 1st Artillery
BERNHARD, SIMON K 13th Artillery
BLANKENBERGER, A. K 15th Artillery
BENJAMIN, AARON H 16th Artillery
BENJAMIN, FERDINAND B Marine Artillery
BEHRENS, A. 2nd Independent Artillery
BRILL, JOSEPH 25th Independent Artillery
BAER, SIMON 30th Independent Artillery
BENDELL, HERMAN } Assistant } 6th Heavy Artillery
} Surgeon }
} Surgeon } 86th Infantry
Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for meritorious and honorable conduct;
afterwards Superintendent of Indian affairs for Arizona.
BRUN, SAMUEL
CALISH, ARNOLD H. I 1st Infantry
COHEN, HENRY E. Corporal H 5th Infantry
COHEN, HERMAN K 6th Infantry
CORPEL, BENJAMIN K 6th Infantry
COHN, ALBERT 8th Infantry
COHEN, LEWIS H 8th Infantry
COHEN, ISAAC H 10th Infantry
COHEN, THOMAS G 11th Infantry
CANTER, LEON A. 12th State Militia
Captured at Harper's Ferry; exchanged; re-enlisted after being
discharged at expiration of term (May 21, 1862--July 20, 1863).
COHEN, SAMUEL 20th Infantry
CONHEIM, JULIUS D 20th Infantry
CHAPMAN, HARRIS A. A 24th Infantry
COLEMAN, F. 27th Infantry
COHEN, HARRIS C 31st Infantry
CZAMANSKI, JULIUS C 31st Infantry
COHEN, DAVID B 39th Infantry
COHEN, ISIDOR A 41st Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
COHN, ISAAC A 41st Infantry
COHN, ISIDOR K 45th Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
COHEN, JACOB F 52nd Infantry
COHEN, JULIUS Corporal F 54th Infantry
COHEN, JOHN C 62nd Infantry
COHEN, ABRAHAM I 62nd Infantry
COHEN, JOSEPH B 68th Infantry
COHEN, LOUIS B 68th Infantry
COHEN, ABRAHAM Captain E 68th Infantry
Entered as a Private; for his soldier-like qualities, strict
discipline and gallantry on the battle-field was promoted in quick
succession to Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant-Major, 2d Lieutenant,
1st Lieutenant, and Captain of Company E, acting part of the time
as Regimental Adjutant.
Besides participating in many skirmishes Captain Cohen took part
in the battles at Cross Keys, Port Republic, Rappahannock Station,
White Sulphur Springs, Slaughter Mountain, Manassas, Bull Run and
Chantilly.
Being disqualified for further active duty he was honorably
discharged, as shown by the annexed official order:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, December 23, 1862.
_Special Order No. 408._
The following officer is honorably discharged from the military
service of the United States on account of disability: Captain A.
Cohen, Company E, 68th New York Volunteers.
By command Major-General Halleck,
(Signed) E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS NEAR STAFFORD, C. H.
February 11, 1863.
I hereby certify that I have known Captain Cohen as acting Adjutant
and subsequently as Captain in the 68th Regiment, New York
Volunteers, and that I have known him to be an efficient officer,
while the 68th Regiment was under my command; I recollect that his
name was favorably mentioned in connection with the battle of Bull
Run, August 30, 1862.
(Signed) W. Krzyzanowski,
Colonel Commanding 2nd Brigade, 3d Division, 11th Corps.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS 3D DIVISION, 11TH CORPS,
February 11, 1863.
From the reports that have reached me, I take pleasure in
certifying to Captain Cohen's efficiency as an officer and his good
conduct in action.
(Signed) C. Schurz,
Brigadier-General, Commanding 3d Division, 11th Corps.
* * * * *
HEADQUARTERS 1ST DIVISION, 11TH CORPS,
STAFFORD, C. H., FEBRUARY 12, 1863.
I take pleasure in stating to all concerned that Captain Cohen is a
very efficient officer and has conducted himself in action bravely.
(Signed) JULIUS STAHEL,
Brigadier-General, Commanding 1st Division, 11th Corps.
COHEN, MOSES B 73d Infantry
COHEN, LEOPOLD A 102nd Infantry
COHEN, ---- E 113th Infantry
CORNELIUS, ABRAHAM G 125th Infantry
CORNELIUS, JACOB E 127th Infantry
COHEN, DAVID B 131st Infantry
CORNELIUS, DAVID F 134th Infantry
COHN, MAX F 163d Infantry
COHN, WILLIAM E 173d Infantry
COHEN, LEWIS E 174th Infantry
COHEN, PHILIP, JR. 193d Infantry
COHN, ISAAC Captain 8th S. V.
COHEN, COLEMAN B 13th S.M.
COLEMAN, SAMUEL B 7th Cavalry
COHN, HENRY A 18th Cavalry
COHN, JOSEPH G 5th Artillery
COHEN, SIMON E 7th Artillery
COHEN, LOUIS G 16th Artillery
COHNHEIM, MAX Captain 41st Infantry
(the author)
Promoted from Lieutenant.
CASPAR, ---- B 1st Independent
Battery
COHEN, MOSES S. 2nd Fire Zouaves
DAVIS, SAMUEL H 1st Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID H 1st Infantry
DAVIS, CHARLES F 3d Infantry
DAVIS, BENJAMIN D 4th Infantry
DAVID, SIMPSON D 5th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID P. F 5th Infantry
DAVIS, HENRY D 6th Infantry
DAVIS, GOMPERTS K 6th Infantry
DAMPF, MEIER 7th Infantry
DANTZIGER, ---- H 7th Infantry
Died from wounds received at Fredericksburg.
DAVIS, G. D. Lieutenant I 7th Infantry
DAMPF, MORITZ 8th Infantry
DAVID, MORITZ Corporal E 8th Infantry
DAVISON, GUSTAV K 8th Infantry
DREYFUS, GUSTAV A 9th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID H 9th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID M. A 10th Infantry
DEUTSCH, J. A 11th Infantry
DAVIDSON, JESSE K 13th Infantry
DAVIDSON, EDMOND K 13th Infantry
DAVID, B. MORITZ 17th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSEPH D 18th Infantry
DRYFUS, CHARLES A 20th Infantry
DAVIDSON, ALFRED C 22nd Infantry
DAVIS, BENJAMIN C 24th Infantry
DAVIS, OSCAR C. B 26th Infantry
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM B 26th Infantry
DAVIS, EUGENE M. Sergeant C 27th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSEPH L. F 27th Infantry
DAVIS, SAMUEL C 28th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSEPH E 28th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSHUA C. E 28th Infantry
DAVIS, SAMUEL H. K 28th Infantry
DONDORF, EDWARD A 29th Infantry
DAVIDS, SAMUEL A 34th Infantry
DAVIS, L. H. Lieutenant 35th Infantry
DAVIS, ISAAC H. H 38th Infantry
DAVIS, ISAAC H 38th Infantry
DERNDINGER, LEO Lieutenant 39th Infantry
DAVID, EMILE Corporal K 39th Infantry
DAVISON, GUSTAV D 41st Infantry
DAVIS, HENRY G 42nd Infantry
DAVIDSON, SAMUEL Lieutenant I 43d Infantry
DAVIS, ALEXANDER C 44th Infantry
DAVIS, LEWIS W. C 44th Infantry
DESSAUER, FR. A. Captain 45th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant on General Howard's staff;
killed in action.
DAVIDSON, DAVID C. A 51st Infantry
DAVIDSON, CHARLES D 53d Infantry
DREYFUS, HENRY K 54th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID C. D 56th Infantry
DAVIS, MOSES K 56th Infantry
DAVIDSON, SAMUEL B 59th Infantry
DAVIDMEYER, LEWIN A 68th Infantry
DAVIS, REUBEN H 80th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID A. G 81st Infantry
DRYFUS, EMANUEL Sergeant C 83d Infantry
DAVIS, FRANK E 87th Infantry
DAVIS, MOSES H 89th Infantry
DE WOLF, D. C. F 94th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID I 95th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID F 98th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSEPH I 102nd Infantry
DAVIS, ABRAHAM C 105th Infantry
DAVIS, JULIUS G 110th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID G 111th Infantry
DAVIS, ABRAHAM L. G 115th Infantry
DAVIS, ABRAHAM A. B 118th Infantry
DAVID, REUBEN C 118th Infantry
DAVIS, ISRAEL F 119th Infantry
DAVIS, DANIEL A 120th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID A 120th Infantry
DAVIS, ISAAC A 120th Infantry
DAVIS, SIMEON C 120th Infantry
DAVIS, SIMEON J. C 120th Infantry
DAVIDSON, D. Corporal 121st Infantry
DRYFUS, JOACHIM Sergeant D 127th Infantry
DAVIS, BENJAMIN A 129th Infantry
DAVIS, LEVI C. I 130th Infantry
DAVIDSON, MORRIS Adjutant K { 130th Infantry
Lieutenant and Brevet Captain { 176th Infantry
DAVIDSON, MORRIS M., Quartermaster K { 131st Infantry
{ 176th Infantry
DAVIS, EMANUEL K 137th Infantry
DAVIS, EZEKIAH Corporal E 144th Infantry
DAVIS, JOSEPH A. Lieutenant 149th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
DANIELS, JOSHUA F 150th Infantry
DANIELSON, WILLIAM E. A 151st Infantry
DAVIS, ABRAHAM D 153d Infantry
DAVIS, ISAAC L. D 156th Infantry
DAVIDSON, JOSEPH B. C 161st Infantry
DAVIS, AARON B. C 169th Infantry
DAVIS, NATHAN M. D 175th Infantry
DURST, JOSEPH K 177th Infantry
DE WOLF, MOSES H 184th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID J. C 185th Infantry
DAVIS, BENJAMIN C 189th Infantry
DAVIDSON, DAVID B. H 8th S. V.
DAVIS, ABRAHAM L 3d Cavalry
DAVIDSON, SOLOMON F 6th Cavalry
DAVISON, ALEXANDER B 12th Cavalry
DAVID, SAMUEL F 13th Cavalry
DAVID, SAMUEL Lieutenant F 25th Cavalry
DAVIS, EUGENE M. A 1st Net. Cavalry
DAVIS, BENJAMIN E 1st Net. Cavalry
DAVIS, SIMON H 1st Mounted Rifles
DAVIS, ISAAC Sergeant C 2nd Artillery
DE SILVA, HENRY B 4th Artillery
DE SILVA, HOMER B 4th Artillery
DAVIS, ABRAHAM K 7th Artillery
DE SOUZA, W. H. B 15th Artillery
DAUZER, CARL 30th Battery
Killed at Gaines' Mill.
ECKSTEIN, SAMUEL G 1st Infantry
ESAU, FERDINAND E 5th Infantry
EICHBERG, JAMES T. B 6th Infantry
ELSNA, CARL C 7th Infantry
EPPENSTEIN, CARL F 8th Infantry
ELSNER, CHARLES F. 1st Lieutenant 29th Infantry
EISNER, GUSTAV I 29th Infantry
ENGEL, HERMAN F 39th Infantry
EHRLICH, HERMAN H 39th Infantry
ECKSTEIN, DAVID Corporal B 41st Infantry
ENGEL, MORITZ I 41st Infantry
ENOCH, LEOPOLD I 41st Infantry
EISEMAN, LOUIS Corporal C 46th Infantry
ENGEL, JOSEPH C 46th Infantry
ELIAS, BENJAMIN E 54th Infantry
ENGEL, GILBERT 61st Infantry
ELKAN, S. 62nd Infantry
EMANUEL, ULLMAN E 66th Infantry
ELSAS, JACOB H 68th Infantry
ETTINGER, JOSEPH A 70th Infantry
ELLIS, DANIEL C 94th Infantry
ELLIS, ISAAC C 94th Infantry
EISMAN, FELIX F 100th Infantry
EPSTEIN, DAVID C 131st Infantry
ENGEL, ADOLPH B 185th Infantry
ENGEL, HERMAN Sergeant C 7th S. V.
ELLINGER, ADOLPH C 7th S. V.
EPHRAIM, MORRIS Sergeant H 47th S. M.
ENGEL, ALBERT Corporal C 13th Cavalry
ELLINGER, CHARLES D 18th Cavalry
ERLANGER, MARTIN 30th Independent Artillery
FULT, LOUIS G 1st Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, JAMES A. A 1st Infantry
FRIEDBERG, ALFRED Ensign I 1st Infantry
FRANKFURTER, BENJAMIN E. D 5th Infantry
FRANK, EMIL E 5th Infantry
FRANK, AUGUST C 6th Infantry
FREUND, AUGUST C 6th Infantry
FRANK, LOUIS B 7th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB B 7th Infantry
FEDER, MAX E 7th Infantry
FALKENBERG, HERMAN E 7th Infantry
FISCHER, P. J. E 7th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, ALBERT Sergeant D 8th Infantry
FRANKENSTEIN, L. 8th Infantry
Killed at Fredericksburg.
FROHBACH, A. 8th Infantry
FROHBACH, GUSTAV I 8th Infantry
FROHBACH, HERMAN I 8th Infantry
FRIEDENTHAL, ABRAHAM Sergeant A 12th Infantry
FIX, MAX Sergeant B 12th Infantry
FELSENHEIMER, MARTIN B 12th Infantry
FRANKENSTEIN, PHILIP 20th Infantry
FULD, MOSES C 20th Infantry
Lost an arm in action.
FLATTO, HARRIS A 24th Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, WILLIAM H 24th Infantry
FRANK, HENRY B 26th Infantry
FRANK, JULIUS D 29th Infantry
FRANKEL, LOUIS Sergeant F 29th Infantry
FREUND, LOUIS Captain G 29th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
FRANK, LOUIS Lieutenant 29th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, WILLIAM G 29th Infantry
FRANKEL, HERMAN Corporal C 31st Infantry
Promoted from private.
FRANKENBERG, JULIUS C 31st Infantry
FREUDENTHAL, DAVID C 31st Infantry
FREEMAN, JOSEPH Sergeant G 35th Infantry
FREDENBERG, DAVID 35th Infantry
FREDENBERG, J. 35th Infantry
FREUDENBERG, ALEXANDER E 39th Infantry
FREEMAN, SIMON C 40th Infantry
FREEMAN, SIMON E 40th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, OSCAR Captain A 41st Infantry
Promoted from private.
FREUND, JOSEPH B 41st Infantry
FRANK, JOACHIM J. K 41st Infantry
FRANK, JACOB C 46th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, CARL F 46th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, JOSEPH I 46th Infantry
FALK, JOSEPH B 49th Infantry
FRIEDENFELD, CHARLES C 49th Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, HENRY C 49th Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, ABRAHAM K 50th Infantry
FRANK, WILLIAM Lieutenant A 52nd Infantry
FRANK, EMIL Lieutenant A 52nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
FRIEDENBERG, DAVID C 52nd Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, ADOLPH Captain E 54th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, AUGUST H 54th Infantry
FREUND, BERNARD H 54th Infantry
FREUDENBERGER, L. 55th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB K 57th Infantry
FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLIEB Captain C 58th Infantry
Promoted from private.
FLEISCHER, JULIUS Lieutenant D 58th Infantry
FREEMAN, HENRY 65th Infantry
FEDER, HENRY } (Three brothers) 66th Infantry
FEDER, ABRAHAM } Sergeant C 66th Infantry
FEDER, ADOLPH } Corporal C 66th Infantry
FISCHER, ---- Lieutenant K 66th Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, NATHAN E 66th Infantry
FALK, JACOB C 68th Infantry
FRANKE, HERMAN I 68th Infantry
FRANKE, JULIUS F 68th Infantry
FELDSTEIN, THEODORE Captain I 68th Infantry
FRANK, GOTTLIEB K 68th Infantry
FRANZ, ELI 68th Infantry
FRAENKEL, MOSES A 72nd Infantry
FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM B 73d Infantry
FRANKENBERG, WILLIAM 83d Infantry
FRIEDENTHAL, R. 91st Infantry
FIRTH, ISAAC E 91st Infantry
FRANKFURTER, ABRAHAM E 91st Infantry
FRIEDMAN, JACOB A 100th Infantry
FRANK, C. P. E 100th Infantry
FRANK, JULIUS Lieutenant A 103d Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
FALK, JOSEPH E 103d Infantry
FREUND, HEINRICH D 119th Infantry
FRANKEL, JACOB K 119th Infantry
FRIEDLANDER, MAX Lieutenant 122nd Infantry
FIX, JULIUS E 122nd Infantry
FRIEDENBERG, MORRIS G 128th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, HENRY Corporal G 131st Infantry
FREEDMAN, DANIEL Corporal B 143d Infantry
FRANK, DAVID Corporal G 154th Infantry
FRANK, MOSES F 160th Infantry
FLATTE, HARRIS
FRANKLIN, MARCUS 178th Infantry
FRIEDENTHAL, FREDERICK K 178th Infantry
FRANKEL, FRIEDRICH Captain 187th Infantry
FERDINANDSON, JULIUS Lieutenant 191st Infantry
FREUND, JOSEPH 2nd Lieutenant C 1st Independent
Promoted from private.
FRIEDMAN, PHILIP K 5th S. V.
FRIEDMAN, JOSEPH B 7th S. V.
FRIEDLANDER, DAVID Major 25th S. M.
FRIEDENTHAL, JACOB Captain A 25th S. M.
FREEMAN, BENJAMIN G 71st S. M.
FREEMAN, CHARLES K 71st S. M.
FREEMAN, ABRAHAM D 2nd Cavalry
FRANK, GUSTAV M 4th Cavalry
FRANKENBERGER, H. 7th Cavalry
FREUND, JACOB B 8th Cavalry
FRIEND, FRANK E 13th Cavalry
FRIEND, ISAAC B. B 13th Cavalry
FRANK, LEOPOLD G 18th Cavalry
FRANK, LEOPOLD I 1st Mounted Rifles
FRANK, LEWIS L 2nd Artillery
FRIEDMAN, HEINRICH 13th Artillery
FALK, JACOB E 14th Artillery
FLEISCHMAN, GUSTAV E 15th Artillery
FRANK, EMIL F 15th Artillery
FRANK, JOSEPH F Marine Artillery
FELLEMAN, WILLIAM M. G 1st Battery
FALK, JACOB 13th Independent Artillery
FLECK, C. C. 30th Battery
FREUND, MAX. 30th Battery
GANS, ALBERT H 6th Infantry
GUMPRECHT, DAVID K 6th Infantry
GOTTWALT, HERMAN A 7th Infantry
GLAUBENKSLY, T. G. Adjutant 7th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
GUTMAN, HENRY B 7th Infantry
GUMPRECHT, HENRY 8th Infantry
Wounded at Fredericksburg.
GUMPRECHT, JULIUS 8th Infantry
Killed at Fredericksburg.
GOTTLIEB, JULIUS E 8th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, LEWIS C 9th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ISAAC I 11th Infantry
GREENWALL, PHILIP 12th Infantry
GREENFIELD, ALBERT K 19th Infantry
GREENFIELD, CHARLES K 19th Infantry
GRUNEWALD, FRIEDRICH 20th Infantry
GRUNTHAL, EDWARD I 29th Infantry
GRUNEWALD, GUSTAV I 29th Infantry
GOLDFISCH, ADAM C 31st Infantry
GREENFELD, MORRIS H 31st Infantry
GOODMAN, LEVI A 33d Infantry
GANS, AUGUST Sergeant C 38th Infantry
GOTTSCHALK, MICHAEL G. D 39th Infantry
GOTTLIEB, HENRY E. Captain 40th Infantry
GANS, JACOB G 39th Infantry
GOLDBERG, SAMUEL 40th Infantry
GOTTHOLD, ISAAC N. Captain F 42nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant. Mr. Gotthold was a gifted actor, whose
impersonations of leading characters won for him high favor, and
demonstrated his superior histrionic abilities.
GRUNBAUM, JOHN K 45th Infantry
GOLDMAN, FRIEDERICH H 46th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ABRAHAM I 47th Infantry
GOLDSCHMIDT, JULIUS F 49th Infantry
GREENWALT, JOSEPH 50th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, CARL I 52nd Infantry
GOLDSMITH, L. G 54th Infantry
GOLDVOGEL, ALEXANDER C 55th Infantry
GOODMAN, HENRY K 56th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, CHARLES K 56th Infantry
GOODMAN, BENJAMIN Captain B 77th Infantry
Promoted from private.
GOODMAN, ALBERT B 57th Infantry
GOSLINE, HENRY S. Colonel Pinckney's Regiment
GOLDMAN, AUGUST E 58th Infantry
GOLDMAN, WILLIAM E 58th Infantry
GANS, EMIL A 68th Infantry
GOTTHOLD, AUGUST G 68th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, A. F 70th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, LEOPOLD C 71st Infantry
GOLDSMITH, H. 80th Infantry
GOODMAN, H. J. C 82nd Infantry
GOODMAN, SAMUEL G. H 93d Infantry
GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM F 94th Infantry
GREENFELD, DAVID F 97th Infantry
GREENHUT, S. 100th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
GUGGENHEIM, J. 100th Infantry
Killed in attack on Morris Island.
GOODMAN, HENRY S. A 100th Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, PHILIP F 103d Infantry
GREEN, S. 107th Infantry
GOTTSCHALK, JACOB K 115th Infantry
GANS, LOUIS E 119th Infantry
GREEN, BENJAMIN H. E 125th Infantry
GREEN, SOLOMON D 126th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH W. H 127th Infantry
GOODMAN, JOSEPH H 131st Infantry
GOTTHELF, JACOB F 146th Infantry
GREENWALT, HARRIS K 152nd Infantry
GREENWAT, MARCUS K 152nd Infantry
GREEN, OSCAR G 153d Infantry
GOLDSMITH, HENRY B 164th Infantry
GANS, ISAAC A 175th Infantry
GANS, FREDERICK B 185th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ABRAHAM A 1st Independent
GOLDSMITH, G. B. Corporal A 22nd S. M.
GOLDSMITH, J. W. Sergeant C 22nd S. M.
GOLDSMITH, M. C 2nd Cavalry
GOLDSTEIN, A. M 6th Cavalry
GREEN, DAVID H 11th Cavalry
GOLDSMITH, S. F 18th Cavalry
GOTTLIEB, LUDWIG Corporal K 1st Artillery
GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM E 16th Artillery
GLASER, ADOLPH K 15th Artillery
Killed in Virginia.
GUMPEL, SAMUEL C 15th Artillery
GREEN, MOSES S. Captain 15th Engineers
HAAS, PHILIP 1st Infantry
HARRIS, JACOB A 2nd Infantry
HIRSCH, ANDREW K 2nd Infantry
HEYMAN, PHILIP D 4th Infantry
HESS, CHARLES G 4th Infantry
HART, DAVID H. Sergeant F 5th Infantry
HEYMAN, NATHAN F 6th Infantry
HIRSCHSON, EDMUND B 7th Infantry
HESS, FRIEDRICH B 7th Infantry
HEIMBERGER, CHARLES Lieutenant 7th Infantry
HARTZHEIM, CHARLES D 7th Infantry
HEIMBURG, JULIUS Captain 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
HELLER, FRIEDRICH D 7th Infantry
HOCHHEIM, LOUIS Captain F 7th Infantry
HAAS, LEONARD J. 7th Infantry
HERZBERG, ALBERT Lieutenant C 8th Infantry
HERZFELD, JOSEPH E 8th Infantry
HEINEMAN, THEODORE E 8th Infantry
HOFFMAN, JACOB H 8th Infantry
HIRSCH, JULIUS I 8th Infantry
HART, JOSEPH A. Drum Major 9th Infantry
HAYS, JACOB C 9th Infantry
HARRIS, JOSEPH B 10th Infantry
HARRIS, DANIEL K 11th Infantry
HERSCH, J. S. Corporal G 13th Infantry
HARRIS, LOUIS A 14th Infantry
HESSE, ADOLPH C 14th Infantry
HAYS, MICHAEL E 15th Infantry
HARRIS, DAVID E 16th Infantry
HARRIS, JOSEPH E 17th Infantry
HARRIS, DAVID K 18th Infantry
HOYM, OTTO Captain 20th Infantry
HOFFMAN, L. 20th Infantry
HERRMAN, AUGUST C 20th Infantry
HERRMAN, WILLIAM C 20th Infantry
HEINEMAN, CHARLES D 20th Infantry
HEINEMAN, HENRY F 20th Infantry
HESS, JACOB K 20th Infantry
Lost an arm at Chancellorsville.
HARRIS, CHARLES G 23d Infantry
HARRISON, SAMUEL A 24th Infantry
Lost a leg at the Battle of New Hope Church.
HART, BENJAMIN B. H 24th Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY Corporal C 25th Infantry
HARRIS, ISRAEL Corporal E 25th Infantry
HAMBURGER, SIMON I 25th Infantry
HARRIS, ISAAC K 27th Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB G 28th Infantry
HAHN, JACOB B 29th Infantry
HUEBSCH, CHARLES H 29th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, CHARLES A 31st Infantry
HIRSCH, MORRIS C 31st Infantry
HOFFMAN, LOUIS D 31st Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB E 31st Infantry
HAHN, JOSEPH Sergeant F 31st Infantry
HAHN, FERDINANd G 31st Infantry
HAHN, GEORGE G 31st Infantry
HEIMAN, HENRY G 31st Infantry
HART, DAVID B 33d Infantry
HOOFMAN, EUGENE F 34th Infantry
HAYMAN, SAMUEL Colonel B 37th Infantry
HESS, ADOLPH A 39th Infantry
HOCHHEIMER, CARL B 39th Infantry
HEINE, LOUIS H 39th Infantry
HAHN, CHARLES 39th Infantry
HERZOG, LOUIS K 39th Infantry
HIRSCHFELD, HERMAN Surgeon B 41st Infantry
HIRSCHFELD, ERNST Lieutenant C 41st Infantry
HERZ, JACOB C 41st Infantry
HIRSCH, GEORGE C 41st Infantry
HIRSCH, JACOB E 41st Infantry
HIRSCH, SELIGMAN I 41st Infantry
HART, SAMUEL F 43d Infantry
HAYS, JOEL C 44th Infantry
HAYS, NATHANIEL C 44th Infantry
HARRIS, DAVID S. K 44th Infantry
HAHN, P. 45th Infantry
HEINEMAN, C. B 45th Infantry
HESS, HENRY F 45th Infantry
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM G 45th Infantry
HAHN, CARL B 46th Infantry
HAHN, CARL MORITZ G 46th Infantry
HAHN, AUGUST K 47th Infantry
HAYS, MICHAEL B 48th Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB E 49th Infantry
HAMMERSLAUGH, SAMUEL A 54th Infantry
HAMMERSLAUGH, SIMON A 54th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Chancellorsville.
HEINEMAN, GOTTLIEB C 54th Infantry
HERSCHFELD, CHARLES E 54th Infantry
HEINEMAN, HEINRICH F 54th Infantry
HERTZ, ALEXANDER F 54th Infantry
HIRSCHFELD, HERMAN K 54th Infantry
HOTTHEIMER, HENRY 54th Infantry
Killed in action.
HARRIS, ISAAC C. F 56th Infantry
HARRIS, JOSEPH F 56th Infantry
HERRMAN, FERDINAND Captain D 58th Infantry
HERZBERG, ADOLF C 59th Infantry
HERSCHFELD, ELIAS I 59th Infantry
HERSCHFELD, JACOB I 59th Infantry
HART, DAVID E. A 60th Infantry
HARTFELD, ---- 62nd Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, DAVID F 62nd Infantry
HERZBERG, FRIEDRICH Lieutenant A 66th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
HOCKSTER, MAYER 66th Infantry
HIRSCH, JULIUS C 66th Infantry
HERRMAN, SIMON Sergeant K 66th Infantry
HESS, JACOB K 66th Infantry
HARRIS, LEVI H 67th Infantry
HERZBERG, RUDOLF D 68th Infantry
HAYS, SAMUEL E 70th Infantry
HESS, JACOB Sergeant 71st Infantry
Color Sergeant and Commissary.
HESS, MORRIS F 71st Infantry
HARRIS, FRANK Corporal G 77th Infantry
HERRMAN, ALEXANDER H. Sergeant C 80th Infantry
HOUSEMAN, N. 83d Infantry
HAYS, JACOB C 83d Infantry
HART, LEWIS A 86th Infantry
HERRMAN, WILLIAM C 86th Infantry
HAMBURGER, SIMPSON Captain D 91st Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
HART, ALEXANDER D 91st Infantry
HARRIS, JOSEPH A. H 95th Infantry
HAYS, OSCAR A. G 97th Infantry
HERRMAN, LOUIS Sergeant H 97th Infantry
HECHT, BENJAMIN Captain B 98th Infantry
HEILBRUN, PHILIP 100th Infantry
HESS, JOSEPH C 101st Infantry
HAYS, ABRAM D 118th Infantry
HART, JOEL G 113th Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB I 123d Infantry
HIRSCHLER, NATHANIEL 124th Infantry
HAYS, DANIEL A 127th Infantry
HEINEMAN, OSCAR A 132nd Infantry
HEINEMAN, CHARLES H. A 134th Infantry
HERRMAN, DANIEL E 136th Infantry
HART, B. 139th Infantry
HALLER, JACOB 140th Infantry
HAYS, JOSEPH Lieutenant 142nd Infantry
HESS, JOSEPH A 144th Infantry
HEINSFURTER, JOSEPH 149th Infantry
HYAMS, JACOB A 149th Infantry
HARRIS, CHAPMAN A. A 149th Infantry
HAYS, HENRY E 149th Infantry
HAYS, DANIEL E 149th Infantry
HAYS, SIDNEY K 151st Infantry
HAYS, BENJAMIN E. H 10th Zouaves
HEYMAN, R. B. Corporal A 153d Infantry
HARRISON, HENRY K 158th Infantry
HERRMAN, ALEXANDER C 162nd Infantry
HAHN, LOUIS C 163d Infantry
HAHN, PHILIP F 176th Infantry
HERZOG, CHARLES B 178th Infantry
HIRSCH, HENRY I 178th Infantry
HAYS, BENJAMIN T. G 179th Infantry
HARRIS, LEVI E. A 184th Infantry
HESS, JONAH K 192nd Infantry
HARRIS, FRANK H 194th Infantry
HOLT, N. B 1st Independent
Killed at Morris Island.
HIRSCH, JOHN Lieutenant C 1st Independent
HOLZ, LOUIS G 1st Independent
HAYS, BENJAMIN J. D 7th S. V.
HERZOG, JOSEPH G 7th S. V.
HERZ, CARL 22nd S. M.
HARRIS, SAMUEL F. H 37th S. M.
HIRSCH, HERMAN Corporal E 1st Cavalry
HIRSCH, PHILIP E 1st Cavalry
HERZFELD, MORITZ I 1st Cavalry
HEIDENHEIM, HENRY I 1st Cavalry
HAYS, MICHAEL Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
HERMAN, LOUIS K 4th Cavalry
HAHN, HENRY I 8th Cavalry
HART, ISAAC E 12th Cavalry
HART, JOSEPH F 12th Cavalry
HAAS, LOUIS Lieutenant 12th Cavalry
HERRMAN, CHARLES T. Corporal K 12th Cavalry
HESS, JULIAN L 14th Cavalry
HAHN, ADOLPH F 16th Cavalry
HAYS, SOLOMON E. B 26th Cavalry
HOFHEIMER, SIEGMUND F 1st Mounted Rifles
HAYS, ISAAC C. C 2nd Mounted Rifles
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM E 2nd Mounted Rifles
HERRMAN, MAX F 3d Artillery
HART, ELI W. G 6th Artillery
HAYS, ABRAHAM D 7th Artillery
HAYS, DAVID H. K 13th Artillery
HERZOG, CHARLES Adjutant 15th Artillery
Promoted from Lieutenant.
HESS, DAVID A 15th Artillery
HESS, HERMAN C 15th Artillery
HESS, JULIUS Lieutenant 28th Battery
Promoted from private.
HESS, JULIUS 2nd Lieutenant 1st Engineers
HARTFIELD, ---- K 62nd Infantry
HYAMS, JACOB ----
ISAACS, CHARLES L. A 5th Infantry
ISAACS, JOSEPH Corporal A 9th Infantry
ISENSTEIN, GEORGE 24th Infantry
ISAACS, SOLOMON A 40th Infantry
ISAACS, ISAAC B 44th Infantry
ISRAELS, LEHMAN Lieutenant A 55th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
ISAYAH, E. 59th Infantry
ISIDOR, LEOPOLD F 61st Infantry
ISAAC, JULIUS De Kalle Regiment
ISAACS, J. J. D 76th Infantry
ISAACS, LEVI K 78th Infantry
ISAACS, MOSES M. D 83d Infantry
ISAACS, ISAAC I 83d Infantry
ISAACS, HENRY G 90th Infantry
ISAACS, MICHAEL G 90th Infantry
ISAACS, ALFRED S. Color Sergeant H 95th Infantry
Promoted from private; wounded at Gettysburg.
ISAACS, SAMUEL D 132nd Infantry
ISAAC, LEWIS Captain 5th Cavalry
Promoted from private.
ISAACS, DAVID B 5th Cavalry
ISAACS, BENJAMIN E 16th Artillery
ISAAC, V. F 16th Artillery
JACOB, HENRY F. B 1st Infantry
JACOBS, WILLIAM C. I 3d Infantry
JACOBSON, PHILIP Lieutenant 5th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
JACOBS, JOHN C 5th Infantry
JOACHIM, CHARLES H 6th Infantry
JULIUS, OSCAR 1st Lieutenant 7th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
JOSEPH, GOTTFRIED F 7th Infantry
JACOBY, FRIEDRICH 1st Lieutenant G 7th Infantry
Promoted from private; killed at Fredericksburg.
JUPITZ, F. { 7th Infantry
{ I 3d (New Jersey)
Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH A 8th Infantry
JACOBSON, IVOR Captain D 8th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
JACOBY, JOSEPH A 8th Infantry
JACOBS, EDWARD D 9th Infantry
Captured; died a prisoner of war.
JACOBSON, LOUIS Lieutenant E 9th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
JACOBS, GEORGE A. H 17th Infantry
JACOBS, GEORGE M. H 19th Infantry
JACOBS, CHARLES E. H 19th Infantry
JACOBY, ADAM F 20th Infantry
JACOB, W. G 21st Infantry
JACOBS, HYMES G 24th Infantry
JACOBS, MORRIS E 25th Infantry
JOST, J. 29th Infantry
JACOBSON, HERMAN C 29th Infantry
JONES, ABRAHAM I 31st Infantry
JACOBUS, JESSE I 34th Infantry
JACOBUS, HENRY I 34th Infantry
JACKEL, JULIUS 39th Infantry
JACOBS, CARL F 39th Infantry
JACOBSON, JULIUS A 41st Infantry
JACOBS, B. B 42nd Infantry
JACOBS, GOTTLIEB K 45th Infantry
JACOBY, SAMUEL K 50th Infantry
JONES, BENJAMIN G 51st Infantry
JACOBS, SAMUEL K 51st Infantry
JACOBY, LOUIS Corporal I 52nd Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN B 53d Infantry
JOSEPH, HENRY F 54th Infantry
JOACHIMSEN, PHILIP J. Brevet Brigadier-General 59th Infantry
A New York paper makes the following remarks concerning This
distinguished officer, under date of January 7, 1890:
"At the breaking out of the Civil War, the high virtues of this
officer showed themselves in their brightest hue. He organized the
59th New York Volunteer Regiment and, appointed as its Colonel,
was ordered to the front. The Regiment was stationed at Fortress
Monroe. While there he was appointed as United States Paymaster.
Subsequently he was ordered to New Orleans under the command of
General B. F. Butler. While on duty he fell from his horse and was
so severely hurt as to be sent to New York. Rendered disqualified
for further military duty, he was honorably discharged. Governor
Fenton, of the state of New York, in acknowledging his eminent
services, appointed him Brevet Brigadier-General."
JACOBS, GEORGE ALBERT C 61st Infantry
JULIAN, THEODOR 62nd Infantry
JOSEPH, ---- E 66th Infantry
JACOB, JULIUS K 66th Infantry
JOSEPH, JOSEPH M. Corporal K 66th Infantry
JACOBSIG, GUSTAV A 67th Infantry
JOSEPH, J. ADOLPH 1st Lieutenant 68th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY D. K 70th Infantry
JOSEPH, LIONEL C 72nd Infantry
JACOBSON, EUGENE P. 1st Lieutenant 74th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
JACOBS, BENJAMIN I 82nd Infantry
JOEL, JULIUS B 83d Infantry
JACOBS, JACOB Captain F 83d Infantry
Enlisted as private.
JACOB, LOUIS H 84th Infantry
JACOBS, ISRAEL P. Corporal E 89th Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN G 90th Infantry
JACOBS, CHARLES G 90th Infantry
JACOBS, JOHN G 90th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY F. Sergeant G 91st Infantry
JACOBSON, ISAAC H 91st Infantry
JACOBS, J. S. H 92nd Infantry
JONAS, DANIEL E 100th Infantry
JACOBS, EDWARD I 101st Infantry
JACOBY, MAX A 103d Infantry
JACOBSON, HERMAN Corporal D 103d Infantry
JACOBS, ELI B 109th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY C. H 110th Infantry
JACOBSON, HERMAN Sergeant K 119th Infantry
JONES, JOSEPH F 124th Infantry
JACOBS, JOHN F 127th Infantry
JACOBS, JOHN H. K 127th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH W. K 127th Infantry
JACOBS, WILLIAM S. K 127th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH A 129th Infantry
JACOBS, DANIEL T. Captain I 133d Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY P. K 139th Infantry
JACOBS, REUBEN G 141st Infantry
JONES, ISAAC C 147th Infantry
JACOBS, GEORGE C. A 149th Infantry
JACOBS, BERNHARD D 156th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH D 156th Infantry
JACOBS, ALFRED K 162nd Infantry
JACOBS, MORRIS B 165th Infantry
JACOBS, CHARLES C 173d Infantry
JACOBSON, A. D. D 176th Infantry
JONES, LEVI A 179th Infantry
JACOBS, JACOB I 185th Infantry
JACOBSON, ABRAHAM I 193d Infantry
JACOBSON, HERMAN C 1st Independent
JOSEPH, A. D 5th S. V.
JACOBSON, W. H. Lieutenant 7th S. V.
JACOBS, MAURICE H. F 17th S. V.
JACOBSON, A. C. C 71st S. M.
JONES, ABRAHAM Lieutenant A 1st Cavalry
JACOBS, G. B 1st Cavalry
JACOBSON, HENRY S. H 10th Cavalry
JACOBS, CHARLES Corporal H 12th Cavalry
JACOBS, CARL C 13th Cavalry
JACOBS, EUGENE K 18th Cavalry
JONES, HENRY G 22nd Cavalry
JACOB, BENJAMIN M 22nd Cavalry
JONES, JACOB T. E 1st Veteran Cavalry
JACOBSON, HENRY B 2nd Veteran Cavalry
JACOBS, ISAAC G 4th Artillery
JACOBSON, W. C. 1st Lieutenant 5th Artillery
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
JACOBS, JOSEPH B 8th Artillery
JONES, ISAAC F 13th Artillery
JOST, JACOB I 15th Artillery
JACOBOWSKY, MARCUS 23d Independent Artillery
JONES, MOSES 28th Independent Artillery
KLUGEMAN, NATHAN E 2nd Independent
Artillery
Also Veteran Mexican War.
KUHN, JOSEPH I 1st Infantry
KOHN, PHILIP Captain 5th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
KAISER, WILLIAM 6th Infantry
KAUFMAN, WILLIAM B. Sergeant B 6th Infantry
KOERPEL, BENJAMIN 6th Infantry
KAUFMAN, WILLIAM B. Captain F 6th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
KUHN, FERDINAND C 7th Infantry
KRUEGER, LOUIS F 7th Infantry
KONIGSDORFER, L. 7th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JULES 1st Lieutenant 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
KONIG, AUGUST Lieutenant 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
KESSLER, LEVI 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
Wounded at Wilson Creek, N. C.; captured; confined
in Libby Prison.
KOHN, HEYMAN H 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOLB, JACOB I 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOHN, JOSEPH F 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, NORMAN 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
Wounded at Fredericksburg on left leg, and shell
wound on right hip.
KAUFMAN, JACOB A 8th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOHN, HYMAN 8th Infantry
Killed at Fredericksburg. (reorganized)
KAUFMAN, P. 8th Infantry
(reorganized)
KAHN, HENRY G 10th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOCH, LEOPOLD C 13th Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, WILLIAM Drum Major 20th Infantry
(reorganized)
KAISER, JACOB A 20th Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, ADOLPH B 20th Infantry
(reorganized)
KRAUSKOPF, GEORGE B 21st Infantry
(reorganized)
KIRSCH, JACOB E 21st Infantry
(reorganized)
KATZ, MICHAEL I 29th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOHN, BARNET Corporal C 31st Infantry
(reorganized)
KASSEL, JOSEPH 31st Infantry
(reorganized)
KOTTNER, L. 31st Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, GUSTAV E 39th Infantry
(reorganized)
KATZ, LOUIS B 41st Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, GOTTLOB D 41st Infantry
(reorganized)
KIRITZ, MICHAEL 42nd Infantry
(reorganized)
KAUFMAN, C. Corporal 45th Infantry
KAUFMAN, LOUIS D 45th Infantry
KAHN, CHARLES G 45th Infantry
KAUFMAN, GOTTLOB Sergeant H 45th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FREDERICK H 45th Infantry
KLINGENSTEIN, J. 45th Infantry
KOHN, JULIUS D 46th Infantry
KING, FERDINAND K 50th Infantry
KOHEN, NICOLAUS D 51st Infantry
KARPELES, HENRY M. Lieutenant- 52nd Infantry
Colonel
Promoted from Major.
KARPELES, R. Lieutenant 52nd Infantry
Killed in action.
KAHN, CARL A 54th Infantry
KAHN, CHARLES H 54th Infantry
KOCH, LEWIS G 57th Infantry
KOHN, JACOB 57th Infantry
Wounded at Seven Pines.
KAUFMAN, ALEXANDER E 58th Infantry
KOHN, ISAAC 2nd Lieutenant A 66th Infantry
KAHN, HERMAN A 66th Infantry
KELLER, JULIUS K 68th Infantry
KOHN, ADOLPHUS Corporal K 78th Infantry
KING, JOSEPH A 81st Infantry
KING, JACOB F 89th Infantry
KING, NOAH H 100th Infantry
KING, JOSEPH I 102nd Infantry
KRAUTH, HERMAN Captain 103d Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
KOHN, CHARLES A 103d Infantry
KAUFMAN, HEINRICH A 103d Infantry
KAUFMAN, ADAM F 104th Infantry
KOCH, JACOB E 106th Infantry
KOHNSTADT, ISIDOR G 132nd Infantry
KOHN, FREDERICK F 134th Infantry
KATZENSTEIN, JOSEPH F 140th Infantry
KING, DAVID B 142nd Infantry
KING, LEVI Corporal I 150th Infantry
KAUFMAN, M. 159th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, C. 163d Infantry
KATZENBERG, CHARLES F 163d Infantry
KOHN, OTTO C 173d Infantry
KOHN, HERMAN C 178th Infantry
KATZENSTEIN, CHARLES D 178th Infantry
KOHN, JACOB A 1st Independent
KOHN, JOSEPH C 7th S. V.
KOHUT, JACOB H 7th S. M.
KALISH, HERMAN D 1st Cavalry
KRAUSS, HENRY I 1st Cavalry
KRAUSS, JOSEPH A 4th Cavalry
KAUFMAN, JACOB K 1st Artillery
KUHNE, LEVI 3d Artillery
KAUFMAN, ADOLPH A 15th Artillery
KOCH, JACOB 29th Independent Artillery
LEAVY, FREDERICK Sergeant 1st Infantry
Enlisted as private.
LILIENTHAL, JOHANN I 1st Infantry
LIPOWITZ, HERMAN Lieutenant K 1st Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
LIMBERGER, AUGUSTUS Lieutenant 3d Infantry
LEVY, MAX G 4th Infantry
LISBERGER, D. K 6th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, SIEGMUND Lieutenant 6th Infantry
LEVY, JOSEPH F 6th Infantry
LEOPOLD, EMIL B 7th Infantry
LEPMAN, CHARLES D 7th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, HENRY D 7th Infantry
Wounded at White House Landing.
LOWENSTEIN, JULIUS E 7th Infantry
LICHTENHAHN, GEORGE F 7th Infantry
LOEB, MAX K 7th Infantry
LESTER, SIMON H 8th Infantry
LIEBOLD, HERMAN Captain 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEVI, CARL A 8th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEVY, LOUIS B 9th Infantry
(reorganized)
LYON, MARK B 11th Infantry
(reorganized)
LYON, W. 11th Infantry
(reorganized)
LAZARUS, JOHN G 11th Infantry
(reorganized)
LAZARUS, HARRY Corporal G 11th Infantry
(reorganized)
LOWENTHAL, PHILIP D 12th Infantry
(reorganized)
LOEB, ABRAHAM 12th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEDERMAN, WILLIAM B 12th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEVY, ABRAHAM 12th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEWIS, DAVID J. H 16th Infantry
(reorganized)
LINDNER, B. F 18th Infantry
(reorganized)
LORCH, CHARLES Adjutant 20th Infantry
Promoted for gallantry. (reorganized)
LILIENTHAL, ADOLF Sergeant H 20th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEHMAN, V. I 20th Infantry
(reorganized)
LYONS, JOSEPH E 23d Infantry
(reorganized)
LYONS, DAVID K 23d Infantry
(reorganized)
LICHTENSTEIN, OSCAR A 29th Infantry
(reorganized)
LEWIS, EDWARD, A. Captain 26th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
LORCH, RUDOLPH Sergeant C 29th Infantry
LIEBMAN, FREDERICK F 29th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, MORITZ H 29th Infantry
LICHENSTEIN, JACOB I 29th Infantry
LEVY, HERMAN C 31st Infantry
LEO, HENRY G 31st Infantry
LEDERMAN, JOSEPH H 31st Infantry
LEWIS, MARK A. C 34th Infantry
LEWIS, ISAAC H. D 34th Infantry
LEWIS, SALOMON E 34th Infantry
LOSHER, JOSEPH 38th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, BENJAMIN D 39th Infantry
Wounded at Cross Keys; also at Bristow Station;
captured at Spottsylvania and taken to Andersonville
Prison.
LEIBNITZ, FERDINAND B 39th Infantry
LEHMAN, HEINRICH C 39th Infantry
LIESER, M. Sergeant 39th Infantry
LEDERER, EMANUEL M. Lieutenant G 39th Infantry
Entered as private; twice wounded; promoted for
gallantry.
LION, SIMON I 39th Infantry
LEVY, ADOLPH K 39th Infantry
LEWIS, D. 40th Infantry
LEWIS, J. 40th Infantry
LEVY, JOHN A 40th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, JOHN B 41st Infantry
LEVY, REUBEN C 41st Infantry
LEWIS, MOSES 42nd Infantry
LEVI, ABRAHAM I 42nd Infantry
LIPPMAN, ---- Turner's Infantry
LEVY, BENJAMIN B 40th Infantry
Wounded at the Wilderness. U. S. Congress
awarded him a "medal of honor."
Benjamin B. Levy enlisted at the age of sixteen, in the First New York
Volunteers, at the breaking out of the Rebellion, as a drummer boy,
and while his regiment was stationed at Newport News, Virginia, he
was detailed as Orderly for General Mansfield. While he was conveying
dispatches on board the steamboat "Express" to General Wool at Fort
Monroe, the steamboat was attacked opposite Norfolk, by the rebel
gunboat "Seabird." The "Express," with all on board, was in imminent
danger of capture, when young Levy saved the steamboat by cutting loose
a water schooner they had in tow. The water schooner was captured, but
the "Express" arrived safely at Fort Monroe. For this act Levy was
highly complimented by Generals Mansfield and Wool.
On the retreat from Richmond, under General McClellan, his tent-mate
was very ill, and to save him from being taken prisoner, Levy threw
away his drum, and taking his comrade's gun and equipments, went into
the fight with his regiment at Charles City Cross Roads and saved
two of the colors of his regiment from capture. For this act he was
promoted on the field by General Phil. Kearney to Color Sergeant of his
regiment.
After the regiment's two years' service had expired, he re-enlisted
in the Fortieth Few York (Mozart) regiment, and at the battle of the
Wilderness he was distinguished for his gallantry. Here he was stricken
down by a serious wound, receiving a compound fracture of the left
thigh. Left on the field he was captured by Colonel White's Guerillas.
He lay on the field with no shelter for two weeks, and was then
recaptured by our troops that came from Fredericksburg. He was one of
the first from this State to receive a medal of honor from Congress.
Mr. Levy is a member of Phil. Kearney Post, No. 8, New York.
LEHMAN, ARTHUR Sergeant G 41st Infantry
LEHMAN, SAMUEL H 41st Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, HERMAN K 41st Infantry
LYONS, HENRY 43d Infantry
LEWIS, ISAAC I 43d Infantry
LESTER, JOSEPH 44th Infantry
LEVY, SAMUEL Corporal A 45th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
LIEBMAN, FREDERICK A 45th Infantry
LEHMAN, GOTTLIEB F 45th Infantry
LUDWIG, B. 45th Infantry
LOESCH, S. 46th Infantry
LEHMAN, WILLIAM B 46th Infantry
LEWIS, LEWIS 47th Infantry
LEHMAN, LOUIS B 49th Infantry
LYONS, EUGENE K 50th Infantry
LUDWIG, JACOB D 51st Infantry
LEWIS M. B 51st Infantry
LICHTENSTEIN, PHILIP Major 52nd Infantry
LORCH, HENRY Sergeant C 52nd Infantry
LEOPOLD, LOUIS Lieutenant F 52nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
LEOPOLD, FRIEDRICH I 54th Infantry
LEVY, LEON A 55th Infantry
LEHMAN, CHARLES F 55th Infantry
LEWIS, ABRAHAM K 56th Infantry
LEWIS, BENJAMIN K 56th Infantry
LICHTENSTEIN, THEO. Major 58th Infantry
LEVYSON, ABRAHAM F 58th Infantry
LEVY, ROBERT G 58th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, HENRY H 58th Infantry
LEVY, HARRY H 58th Infantry
LIPPMAN, FRIEDRICH K 58th Infantry
LYON, DAVID H. C 60th Infantry
LAWACH, ---- Lieutenant 62nd Infantry
LEO, FREDERICK P. G 64th Infantry
LIEBERMAN, JOHN F 65th Infantry
LIESER, JACOB F 65th Infantry
LEVY, HERZ E 66th Infantry
LEOROLDI, LEOPOLD Captain K 66th Infantry
LOEB, LOUIS K 66th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, JOSEPH K 66th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, SOLOMON K 66th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, SELIGMAN Corporal B 68th Infantry
LASSNER, OTTO C 68th Infantry
LEHMAN, ADOLPH I 68th Infantry
LIEBMAN, GEORGE K 68th Infantry
LOEWE, A. 68th Infantry
LEVI, WILLIAM Sergeant A 70th Infantry
LIPPERWITZ, HERMAN F 71st Infantry
LICHENSTEIN, PHILIP G. Lieutenant-Colonel 72nd Infantry
Promoted from Captain.
LOEWE, MAX A 72nd Infantry
LOEB, DANIEL Adjutant H 72nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
LOCHTE, DANIEL Lieutenant 72nd Infantry
LEWIN, CHARLES E 73d Infantry
LEHMAN, C. F 74th Infantry
LEOPOLD, ISIDOR A 78th Infantry
LEVIE, JOSEPH H 82nd Infantry
LEVY, JAMES E 87th Infantry
LYONS, MICHAEL C 88th Infantry
LEVY, JOHN I 88th Infantry
LOWE, WILLIAM I 88th Infantry
LEWIS, I. 89th Infantry
LUDWIG, JACOB P. H 89th Infantry
LEWIS, M. 96th Infantry
LEHMAN, PHILIP I 97th Infantry
LEWIN, LEWIS I 98th Infantry
LEWIS, EUGENE H. Corporal F 101st Infantry
LEWIS, ABRAHAM B 102nd Infantry
LYON, DAVID E. H 102nd Infantry
LEHMAN, ALBERT C 103d Infantry
LEVY, ABRAHAM H 103d Infantry
LEWIN, JOSEPH I 103d Infantry
LEWIS, SAMUEL C 107th Infantry
LEWIS, LEWIS H 108th Infantry
LEWIS, SAMUEL I 112th Infantry
LEWIN, N. Lieutenant 114th Infantry
LEDERER, CHARLES D 116th Infantry
LEHMAN, WILLIAM Corporal E 116th Infantry
LEHMAN, P. 116th Infantry
LYON, DAVID Sergeant B 119th Infantry
LANDAUER, MOSES C 119th Infantry
LAZARUS, JACOB D 119th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, EDWARD I 119th Infantry
LIMBURGER, GUSTAV E 121st Infantry
LAZARUS, LEVI H 125th Infantry
LEWIS, L. 127th Infantry
LEIVY, ABRAHAM Commissary Sergeant 132nd Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, LEVI D 132nd Infantry
LEWIS, ISAAC K 132nd Infantry
LYON, ABRAHAM E 133d Infantry
LESTER, M. 134th Infantry
LEOPOLD, GEORGE E 145th Infantry
LESTER, LEVY E 147th Infantry
LEHMAN, JOSEPH H 148th Infantry
LIGHT, SOLOMON Captain 149th Infantry
Paralyzed in service.
LEVY, HYMAN A 149th Infantry
LIGHT, LEWIS A 149th Infantry
Wounded at Pine Mountain, Georgia; severely
wounded at Lost Mountain.
LIEBMAN, HERMAN A 149th Infantry
LAZARUS, NEWMAN A 149th Infantry
LAUDERWITZBERG, LOUIS A 149th Infantry
LEHMAN, MOSES A 149th Infantry
LAZARUS, HARRY A 149th Infantry
LOWITCH, MICHAEL A 149th Infantry
Killed in action.
LEOPOLD, FRANK Lieutenant C 151st Infantry
Enlisted as private.
LEWIS, SIMON A 156th Infantry
LEDERMAN, FRANK C 161st Infantry
LEWIS, ISAAC J. D 161st Infantry
LOESCHER, SAMUEL C 162nd Infantry
LICHTENFELZ, CHARLES C 162nd Infantry
LIPOLD, ABRAHAM A 168th Infantry
LESTER, FELIX B 169th Infantry
LOEB, ABRAHAM I 175th Infantry
LEHMAN, A. 176th Infantry
LOEWENTHAL, BARNEY F 177th Infantry
LEHMAN, JOSEPH B 178th Infantry
LEVY, ADOLPH C 178th Infantry
LESTER, LOUIS G 184th Infantry
LEVY, SIMON { } Colonel 1st Independent
LEVY, FERDINAND {Father} Captain 1st Independent
Enlisted as Private. { and }
LEVY, ALFRED { three} Lieutenant 1st Independent
Enlisted as Private. { sons }
LEVY, BENJAMIN C. { } 14th U. S. Infantry
The following are the records of these men:
Colonel Simon Levy was commandant of Camp "Sprague," Staten Island,
and general recruiting officer during the year 1863. Afterwards
he received his commission as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st
Independent Battalion, New York Volunteers, and took command of
that regiment at St. Helena Island, South Carolina, continuing
in command of the same until its consolidation with the 47th and
48th New York Volunteers in February, 1864. The Battalion Regiment
participated, while under the command of Colonel Simon Levy, in the
capture of Folly and Morris Islands, South Carolina, and in several
other engagements.
Captain Ferdinand Levy was in command of the skirmishing party
of General Strong's Brigade at the capture of Morris Island,
South Carolina, July 10th, 1863. This command was the first to
land on the island, being the advance guard. Captain Levy was
honorably mentioned for gallant services in brigade orders shortly
afterwards. He is a well-known Israelite; and has served as
Coroner, and is now Register of the city of New York; he is also
active in Jewish institutions, secret societies, etc.
Lieutenant Alfred Levy enlisted as private in the 1st Independent
Battalion; was promoted to Sergeant and subsequently to Lieutenant
for meritorious conduct. After the consolidation of the regiment he
joined the 5th United States Artillery and served until the close
of the war.
Benjamin C. Levy enlisted in the 14th United States Infantry at the
breaking out of the war and served until its close. He participated
in fourteen general engagements and numerous skirmishes. His
bravery on several occasions has been honorably mentioned.
LYONS, C. H. Adjutant 7th S. V.
LOWENTHAL, HENRY B 7th S. V.
LEVY, JACOB E 7th S. V.
LEVY, JACOB F 7th S. V.
LIEBOLD, HERMAN Captain H 7th S. V.
LEVY, ADOLPH C 8th S. V.
LEVY, ALEXANDER F 8th S. V.
LEVY, JOSEPH C. C 37th S. M.
LEOPOLD, DAVID H 37th S. M.
LEWIS, FERDINAND G 2nd Cavalry
LYON, ISAAC Captain B 5th Cavalry
LEVY, BERNHARD H. B 5th Cavalry
LEON, ELIAS 5th Cavalry
LEWIS, DANIEL Quartermaster- 9th Cavalry
Sergeant
LEWIS, ISAAC B. E 11th Cavalry
LEVI, CHARLES E 11th Cavalry
LEHMEIER, G. 12th Cavalry
LUDWIG, EMIL F 14th Cavalry
LOWENSTEIN, FREDERICK K 14th Cavalry
LIEBMAN, FREDERICK K 14th Cavalry
LOEB, EMIL M 14th Cavalry
LEVI, FRANK C 16th Cavalry
LAZARUS, H. LOUIS 1st Lieutenant H 16th Cavalry
LEWIS, MORRIS Captain 18th Cavalry
LAZARUS, HENRY Captain 25th Cavalry
LAUTHERMAN, HENRY 3d Artillery
LESTER, JACOB F 1st Veteran
Cavalry
LEWIS, CHARLES E. F 1st Veteran
Cavalry
LOEB, SIEGMUND 1st Lieutenant 7th Artillery
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
LEVY, MEIER 7th Artillery
LEWIS, OSCAR H 10th Artillery
LIEVY, JACOB B 13th Artillery
LOWENSTEIN, MORITZ 2nd Lieutenant F 15th Artillery
Promoted from Sergeant.
LEVY, HENRY E 16th Artillery
LOWENSTEIN, MORITZ 2nd Independent Artillery
LEWIS, SAMUEL Lieutenant 5th Independent Artillery
Artillery
LOWENTHAL, LEOPOLD 21st Artillery
LOWENTHAL, JACOB 31st Independent Artillery
LIEBMAN, NEWMAN ----
LEHMAN, MOSES ----
LAZARUS, HARRIS ----
LEVY, HYMAN ----
LICHTENBURG, LOUIS ----
MORNINGSTEIN, HENRY A 1st Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH B 1st Infantry
MILETINSKI, MORITZ I 1st Infantry
MANNHEIMER, MARTIN K 1st Infantry
MORRIS, HENRY K 1st Infantry
MYERS, SIMEON A 2nd Infantry
MANN, A. ENSIGN 3d Infantry
MEYERS, LEWIS F. 3d Infantry
MYERS, OSCAR C 4th Infantry
MEYER, FREDERICK B 5th Infantry
MARKS, WILLIAM A 6th Infantry
MARKS, AUGUST K 6th Infantry
MOSER, J. 6th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY C 8th Infantry
MEYER, LOUIS E 8th Infantry
MEYER, A. 8th Infantry
MARX, GEORGE G 8th Infantry
MEYER, LUDWIG I 8th Infantry
MAY, MARCUS A 9th Infantry
MEYERS, MARTIN C 9th Infantry
MARTIN, J. 9th Infantry
MORRISON, WOLF 11th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB C 13th Infantry
MEYERS, SIMEON K 13th Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH A 16th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH E 16th Infantry
MORRIS, MOSES K 16th Infantry
MENCKE, ISAAC 1st Lieutenant 17th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
MAIER, J. JACOB I 19th Infantry
MYERS, SAMUEL I 19th Infantry
MAAS, JACOB A 20th Infantry
MEYER, CARL Corporal B 20th Infantry
MARKOWSKY, AUGUST B 20th Infantry
MANN, MAX Corporal C 20th Infantry
MASINS, LEOPOLD C 20th Infantry
Lost an arm in action.
MAYER, JOSEPH Corporal D 20th Infantry
MEYER, MARTIN G 20th Infantry
MAYERS, HENRY C 22nd Infantry
MOSES, MARCUS Corporal F 23d Infantry
MAY, D. 26th Infantry
MEYERS, JACOB H 28th Infantry
MOSER, JOSEPH A 29th Infantry
MEYER, LOUIS I. D 29th Infantry
MORITZ, JOSEPH Corporal I 29th Infantry
MEYER, ADAM K 29th Infantry
MEYERS, ISAAC D 30th Infantry
MAYER, LEVI F 31st Infantry
MANN, F. Corporal 33d Infantry
MOSIER, L. 33d Infantry
MARKS, FRANK F 35th Infantry
MENDEL, SIDNEY Major 35th Infantry
Promoted from Captain.
MARKS, JOSEPH G 35th Infantry
MYERS, DAVID E 36th Infantry
MYER, CHARLES E 37th Infantry
MOSES, ISAAC Adjutant-General
Adjutant-General of the 3d Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
commanded by General Heintzelman; participated in the battles of
the Peninsular Campaign; subsequently served with General Banks.
MAIER, A. 38th Infantry
MARSIN, F. 38th Infantry
MAIER, JOSEPH C 38th Infantry
MAIER, DAVID C 38th Infantry
MOSES, DAVID F 38th Infantry
MAY, H. 39th Infantry
MEIER, HERMAN B 39th Infantry
MAYER, CARL G 39th Infantry
MEIER, FRIEDRICH H 39th Infantry
MAYER, WILHELM I 39th Infantry
MENTZ, S. D. K 39th Infantry
MORRIS, DANIEL E 40th Infantry
MORGENSTEIN, L. 41st Infantry
MEIERSON, MAX B 41st Infantry
MEYERSTEIN, H. C 41st Infantry
MEIER, JOSEPH E 41st Infantry
MAY, HENRY Hospital Steward 45th Infantry
MAYER, AUGUST E 45th Infantry
MAYER, JACOB K 45th Infantry
MORITZ, JOSEPH K 45th Infantry
MAYER, CARL Lieutenant 46th Infantry
MANTEL, LOUIS A 46th Infantry
MEINHART, JACOB B 46th Infantry
MILLER, EDWARD S. H 46th Infantry
MARX, CARL H 46th Infantry
MANDELL, J. K 46th Infantry
MARKS, JOSEPH D 49th Infantry
MOSES, AUGUST Sergeant G 49th Infantry
MORRIS, H. 50th Infantry
MEYER, ADOLPH Quartermaster 52nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MEYER, THEODORE B 52nd Infantry
MOSES, GEORGE H 52nd Infantry
MYERS, JOSEPH A 53d Infantry
MAYER, FREDERICK F 53d Infantry
MAYER, JACOB G 54th Infantry
MOSES, HENRY K 54th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB H 55th Infantry
MEYER, GUSTAV B 58th Infantry
MEIER, ISAAC E 58th Infantry
MOSESSON, MAYER E 58th Infantry
MARX, JOSEPH G 58th Infantry
MARX, LOUIS G 58th Infantry
MENDELSON, GUSTAV Sergeant D 59th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL I 59th Infantry
MEYERS, LEVI C 61st Infantry
MORRIS, BERNHARD 1st Lieutenant D 62nd Infantry
Enlisted as private.
MORRIS, A. Lieutenant K 62nd Infantry
MEYERSTEIN, H. C 62nd Infantry
MEYERSTEIN, ---- F 62nd Infantry
MEYER, ISAAC G 62nd Infantry
MEYERS, SIMEON G 64th Infantry
MIELZINER, ISAAC Zouaves
Killed at Bull Run.
MEYER, ADOLPH 1st Lieutenant 66th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
MANNHEIM, SIMON Corporal A 66th Infantry
MASIUS, LEOPOLD A 66th Infantry
MANNHEIM, THEO. C 66th Infantry
MOSES, J. HENRY Captain F 66th Infantry
MANDELBAUM, S. K 66th Infantry
MARCUS, SAMUEL K 66th Infantry
MELZHEIMER, SAMUEL K 66th Infantry
MEYER, ALBERT K 66th Infantry
MEIER, CARL A 67th Infantry
MORRISON, WOLF Ellsworth Zouaves
MEIER, GOTTLIEB B 68th Infantry
MOSES, SELIG B 68th Infantry
MANTEL, LOUIS E 68th Infantry
MEYER, FERDINAND K 68th Infantry
MOSES, ISRAEL Lieutenant-Colonel 72nd Infantry
Was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the U. S. Army in 1847, and
served with the Army of Occupation at Vera Cruz and Toluca, Mexico,
and at Fort Crawford, Fort Leavenworth, in Oregon, Washington
Territory, and Texas until his resignation in 1855. In the Civil
War he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of a regiment attached to
Sickles' Brigade, but was soon compelled, by failing health, to
resign. He was appointed Surgeon of the United States Volunteers
and placed in charge of camp hospitals in the Army of the Potomac
and subsequently served with General Gordon Granger, in the West.
He was mustered out of service in 1865, after receiving the Brevet
of Colonel for faithful and meritorious services.
MASIUS, LEOPOLD C 20th Infantry
MARCUS, LEOPOLD Lieutenant H 72nd Infantry
MEYERS, ABRAHAM A 74th Infantry
MANN, GUSTAV D 74th Infantry
MORRIS, P. K 77th Infantry
MARKS, REUBEN A 81st Infantry
MOSES, ABRAHAM H 82nd Infantry
MEYERS, LEOPOLD I 82nd Infantry
MOSES, J. C. Corporal C 83d Infantry
MEYER, ALBERT K 83d Infantry
MOSS, B. 90th Infantry
MORRIS, J. 90th Infantry
MENDES, DAVID G 90th Infantry
MENDES, JOHN G 90th Infantry
MOSES, SAMUEL B. I 90th Infantry
MEYER, MARTIN C 97th Infantry
MENZ, JACOB D 98th Infantry
MEYERS, MARKS H. K 100th Infantry
MENDEL, FREDERICK Quartermaster 103d Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MORITZ, FRIEDRICH A 103d Infantry
MEYER, EMIL A 103d Infantry
MAINSFIELD, MOSES Corporal D 103d Infantry
Enlisted as private.
MAYER, LIPPMAN F 103d Infantry
MEYER, HERMAN G 103d Infantry
MORITZ, WILLIAM H 103d Infantry
MAYER, FERDINAND I 108th Infantry
MACEY, JUDAH B 110th Infantry
MESSENGER, MORRIS H 112th Infantry
MORRIS, SAMUEL Corporal C 113th Infantry
MYERS, LEVI C 115th Infantry
MANN, DANIEL L. E 115th Infantry
MEYER, ISIDORE Sergeant C 117th Infantry
MEYER, MOSES Corporal B 119th Infantry
MORRIS, J. 120th Infantry
MANNHEIMER, ISRAEL E 122nd Infantry
MYER, AARON B. Captain 125th Infantry
Died of wounds received in action.
MORITZ, JOSEPH I 125th Infantry
MEYER, JULIUS G 132nd Infantry
MAYER, JACOB K 138th Infantry
MEYER, AUGUST Captain B 140th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MARKS, DANIEL H 147th Infantry
MAYER, ISAAC I 154th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL N. 157th Infantry
MARKS, JOSEPH F 160th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH Sergeant F 163d Infantry
MEYERS, BENJAMIN Corporal D 168th Infantry
MAYER, EDWARD C 173d Infantry
MAYER, AUGUST B 176th Infantry
MARKS, ABRAHAM D 176th Infantry
MAYER, JACOB K 177th Infantry
MEIER, JACOB G 178th Infantry
MEIER, JOSEPH I 178th Infantry
MEIER, LOUIS E 179th Infantry
MEYER, ABRAHAM I 179th Infantry
MARKS, DANIEL E. H 184th Infantry
MARBURGER, J. 188th Infantry
MYERS, ISAAC 2nd Lieutenant 193d Infantry
MEIERS, JACOB H 193d Infantry
MORRIS, MARK A 1st Independent
MAYER, JACQUES F 1st Independent
MOSES, HERMAN G 1st Independent
Wounded at Fort Wagner and at Petersburg.
MEYER, GUSTAV B 5th S. V.
MAYER, FERDINAND Captain D 5th S. V.
MAYER, JACOB A 7th S. V.
MORITZ, EDWARD K 7th S.V.
MORITZ, DAVID Sergeant I 17th S. V.
MEYER, LOUIS I 17th S. V.
MOSES, NATHAN F. Major 7th S. M.
MAYER, BERNARD Lieutenant B 7th S. M.
MEIER, JACOB E 7th S. M.
MEYERSON, FRANK G. D 1st Cavalry
MAAS, AUGUST I 1st Cavalry
MAYER, MAX 2nd Cavalry
MOSIER, LEVI Corporal E 3d Cavalry
MEYER, ADOLPH Surgeon 4th Cavalry
MEYER, EMIL M 4th Cavalry
MYERS, ---- 5th Cavalry
MINZESHEIMER, MOSES Adjutant A 5th Cavalry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
MEIER, ELI B 6th Cavalry
MEYERS, DAVID C 8th Cavalry
MAIER, JACOB H 8th Cavalry
MOAK, JULIUS 10th Cavalry
MOAK, HARRIS P. 10th Cavalry
MEYERS, MOSES C 12th Cavalry
MENDELSON, BERNARD E 13th Cavalry
MEYERS, ISAAC L 15th Cavalry
MAAS, ADOLPH I 16th Cavalry
MAAS, JACOB L 16th Cavalry
MARKS, FRANK B 20th Cavalry
MEIERS, ISAAC, JR. A 21st Cavalry
MOSES, MARK E. Sergeant F 22nd Cavalry
MEYER, RAPHAEL E 25th Cavalry
MOSES, PHILIP G 1st Veteran Cavalry
MANN, DANIEL P. Captain Independent Cavalry
MARKS, SAMUEL N. Independent Cavalry
MAYER, ALEXANDER E 15th Artillery
MAYER, LUDWIG H 15th Artillery
MAYER, A. 1st Mounted Rifles
MEIER, HERMAN H 1st Mounted Rifles
MEYERS, JOSEPH D 2nd Mounted Rifles
MEYER, JOSEPH K 2nd Mounted Rifles
MAX, SAMUEL Corporal E 2nd Artillery
MARKS, SAMUEL F 2nd Artillery
MEYERS, JACOB B. K 2nd Artillery
MENDELSON, MORITZ E 4th Artillery
MEYERS, NATHAN F 8th Artillery
MEYER, SAMUEL B 9th Artillery
MAYER, JACOB K 9th Artillery
MARKS, JOSEPH I 10th Artillery
MEYERS, K. A 13th Artillery
MARKS, LOUIS Corporal A 15th Artillery
MEIER, JOSEPH H 15th Artillery
MEIER, JACOB H 15th Artillery
MARK, ISAAC E 16th Artillery
METZGER, SALOMON E Marine Artillery
MYERS, DAVID H Marine Artillery
MEIER, MOSES 2nd Independent Artillery
MEIER, LOUIS 9th Independent Artillery
MEIER, LOUIS 9th Independent Artillery
MOSES, JOSEPH C 24th Independent
Artillery
MAYER, WILLIAM General
During the Draft Riots at New York City he did heroic service for
which he received an autograph letter from President Lincoln,
thanking him for the eminent services rendered by him to our
country during those days of darkness. Subsequently, he devoted
himself to journalism, editing several leading German newspapers.
NEWMAN, ABEL R. I 3d Infantry
NEWMAN, HENRY F 4th Infantry
NATHAN, MICHAEL F 6th Infantry
NEUSTADTER, JOSEPH Quartermaster 8th Infantry
NEWMAN, PHILIP B 10th Infantry
NEWBURG, JOSEPH Captain G 10th Infantry
Wounded at Fredericksburg; joined service again
after discharge from hospital.
NEUBURG, LIONEL C. Sergeant H 10th Infantry
Entered as private.
NUSSBAUMER, CHARLES C 13th Infantry
NOAH, DAVID G. G 20th Infantry
NOAH, MOSES D. G 20th Infantry
NEWMAN, LAZARUS A 24th Infantry
Lost a foot in action.
NEWMAN, LEOPOLD C. Lieutenant- B 31st Infantry
Colonel
Was mustered in service as Captain; he rose to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel. His term of service expiring a few days prior
to the battle of Chancellorville, May 2, 1863, he expressed a
desire to remain at the front and during that terrible struggle
his foot was shattered by a cannon ball; was taken to Washington,
where he died shortly after. President Lincoln visited him at his
bedside, and brought his commission promoting him to the rank of
Brigadier-General.
NEWMAN, WILLIAM F 31st Infantry
NEWMAN, LEVI L. Corporal I 32nd Infantry
NIEMAN, CARL H 39th Infantry
NEUBAUER, L. 46th Infantry
NEWMAN, LOUIS G 53d Infantry
NEWMAN, CHARLES Lieutenant 54th Infantry
NEUHAUSER, FERDINAND C 54th Infantry
NEWMAN, ADOLPH H 54th Infantry
NATHAN, WOLF D 55th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, ABRAHAM Quartermaster 58th Infantry
NEUBERGER, AUGUST C 58th Infantry
NEWMAN, ISAAC Sergeant I 61st Infantry
NEWMAN, CHARLES A 61st Infantry
NEWMAN, SAMUEL A 66th Infantry
NEWMAN, ABRAHAM K 66th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, HENRY F 68th Infantry
NEWBERGER, LOUIS G 70th Infantry
NEWBERGER, ANSEL D 72nd Infantry
NATHAN, HENRY Corporal K 73d Infantry
NEELIS, ---- Captain 90th Infantry
Killed at Port Hudson.
NEWMAN, ABRAHAM D. F 95th Infantry
NEWMAN, AUGUST Lieutenant D 103d Infantry
Died of wounds received in action.
NIEDERLANDER, F. 115th Infantry
NATHANSON, NATHAN B 119th Infantry
NEWMAN, BENJAMIN F. Sergeant B 137th Infantry
NEWMAN, FERDINAND G 140th Infantry
NEWMAN, MORRIS D 146th Infantry
NEWMAN, JOSEPH Corporal F 162nd Infantry
NIEMAN, GOTTLIEB Sergeant K 174th Infantry
NOAH, D. 186th Infantry
NEWMAN, CARL D 7th S. V.
NEWMAN, OSCAR K 7th S. V.
NEWMAN, SIMON F 47th S. M.
NIEBERGALL, JULIUS 3d Artillery
NEWMAN, ABRAHAM F 4th Artillery
NUMBURGER, ALEXANDER 4th Cavalry
Regimental Quartermaster
NEUBERGER, MEIER L 7th Cavalry
Captured; died in Andersonville Prison.
NEWMAN, SIMON G 20th Cavalry
OPPENHEIM, JACOB A 1st Infantry
OPPENHEIM, ARNOLD Adjutant 7th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
OPPENHEIMER, LOUIS H 8th Infantry
OCHS, JOHN D 41st Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, HENRY Corporal B 42nd Infantry
OCHS, JOSEPH C 16th Cavalry
OPPENHEIM, DAVID Sergeant L 15th Artillery
OSTROSKY, LEOPOLD 1st Independent Infantry
Wounded at Alutra.
PINKSON, HENRY Corporal E 1st Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
PHILLIPS, LEWIS G 2nd Infantry
PHILLIPS, JOSEPH E 6th Infantry
PROSKAUER, HERMAN H 7th Infantry
PHILLIPSON, FERDINAND C 8th Infantry
PHILLIPS, MEYER D. A 10th Infantry
PHILLIPS, ALFRED Quartermaster 36th Infantry
POLLOCK, BERNHARD 1st 39th Infantry
Lieutenant
Enlisted as Private; promoted for bravery
at Cross Keys.
PECK, LOUIS D 40th Infantry
PISKO, EDWARD C 45th Infantry
PROSKAUER, ADOLPH Sergeant G 52nd Infantry
POTZNONSKY, MORITZ E 54th Infantry
PINKSON, ISIDOR K 59th Infantry
PHILLIPS, HENRY Corporal G 62nd Infantry
POLLOCK, JOSEPH B. D 83d Infantry
POLLOCK, DAVID Sergeant E 96th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
PHILLIPSON, ---- 100th Infantry
PINKUS, L. Sergeant D 103d Infantry
Wounded at Stone Creek; promoted from Private;
captured and sent to Libby Prison.
PHILLIPS, L. E 115th Infantry
PEISNER, ELIAS Colonel 119th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
PEISNER, FERDINAND Captain 119th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
PEISNER, FRANCIS 1st 119th Infantry
Lieutenant
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
PINKSON, ISIDOR 119th Infantry
PINKSON, HENRY E 119th Infantry
POSNER, JACOB E 131st Infantry
PHILLIPS, ABRAHAM E 132nd Infantry
PHILLIPS, ISAAC E 132nd Infantry
PLATTO, HARRIS A 149th Infantry
POPPELSTEIN, SAMUEL A 149th Infantry
POLLOCK, JACOB I 149th Infantry
PEYSER, NATHAN Sergeant K 1st Independent
PEYSER, M. Corporal G 1st Independent
PEIXOTTO, MOSES L. Captain B 7th S. M.
Entered as Private.
PHILLIPS, ---- 5th Cavalry
ROSENTHAL, JOHN G 1st Infantry
ROSENSTRAUS, SELIGMAN D 4th Infantry
REIZENSTEIN, CHARLES A 6th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, JACOB B 6th Infantry
RHEIN, MORITZ Captain 7th Infantry
RITTER, G. 7th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, ADOLPH D 7th Infantry
ROSENBERG, SAMUEL G 7th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, AUGUST I 7th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, M. D 8th Infantry
RAUSCHER, J. 8th Infantry
ROSENBERG, HERMAN F 8th Infantry
RAPHAEL, JACOB Corporal H 8th Infantry
REICH, SAMUEL I 10th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH K 10th Infantry
ROSENBERG, GEORGE A 13th Infantry
ROSENBERG, LOUIS D 17th Infantry
ROSENBERG, CHARLES I 19th Infantry
ROSENFELD, JOSEPH E 20th Infantry
ROSENBERG, I. A 24th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, MILO A 24th Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, MOSES A 24th Infantry
Killed in action.
ROSENBERGER, L. C 25th Infantry
RASZHE, JULIUS C 31st Infantry
ROSENTHAL, MORRIS C 31st Infantry
ROWE, MORRIS Corporal E 31st Infantry
REITLER, LOUIS Sergeant 32nd Infantry
Killed at Crampton Pass, Maryland.
ROSENBAUM, JOSEPH D. D 35th Infantry
ROWE, SAMUEL E. H 37th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, LEWIS C 38th Infantry
RICH, GEORGE L. B 39th Infantry
ROSENTHAL. GUSTAV F 39th Infantry
RAPHAEL, ALFRED MAURICE Lieutenant 40th Infantry
Recipient of testimonials for bravery at Gettysburg.
RACHEL, AUGUST Quartermaster 41st Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
ROSENBERG, SAMUEL A 41st Infantry
ROSENTHAL, JACOB I 41st Infantry
ROSENBERG, JOSEPH C 47th Infantry
ROSENBERG, M. 50th Infantry
ROSENBERG, ANDREW J. K 50th Infantry
ROSENBURG, MAX Lieutenant 54th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, A. Lieutenant 54th Infantry
ROSENBERG, GEORGE 54th Infantry
ROSENFELD, HENRY C 54th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, DANIEL K 54th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, BARNEY 55th Infantry
ROSENBERG, ISAAC A 56th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, MOSES B 58th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, LOUIS K 58th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, K. K 58th Infantry
REESE, J. 62nd Infantry
Seriously wounded at Gettysburg.
REES, ---- K 62nd Infantry
ROSENDALE, CHARLES H. 65th Infantry
ROSENBERG, EDWARD A 66th Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, MORITZ Lieutenant K 66th Infantry
ROSENDALE, SILAS Captain 68th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH G 79th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH F 82nd Infantry
RAU, MAX B 90th Infantry
ROWE, JOSEPH C 91st Infantry
ROSENTHAL, GEORGE Corporal H 97th Infantry
ROSENBERGER, FREDERICK K 105th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, EDWARD G 113th Infantry
RICH, FRANK E. I 115th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, LEVY I 117th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, DAVID E 119th Infantry
REHMAN, MARCUS E 119th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, LOUIS E 119th Infantry
REGENSBURGER, J. 119th Infantry
RICH, AARON P. B 125th Infantry
ROSENDALE, DANIEL F 131st Infantry
ROSENBURG, ADAM Corporal G 136th Infantry
ROWE, MOSES 137th Infantry
ROSE, ISAAC E. D 141st Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, MOSES A 149th Infantry
Killed at Lookout Mountain. Far in advance of his
company he tore down the rebel flag, when he was
killed by bullets.
ROSENBERG, ISAAC A 149th Infantry
ROSE, DANIEL I 149th Infantry
ROSENBURG, N. J. I 151st Infantry
ROSENBURG, ISAAC B 155th Infantry
ROSENDALE, SAMUEL Corporal D 177th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
ROSENDALE, CHARLES H. K 185th Infantry
ROSENBERG, D. D 1st Independent
ROSENBERG, D. D 1st Independent
ROTHSCHILD, SAMUEL F 5th S. V.
ROSENBAUM, LOUIS B 7th S. V.
ROSENBURG, ADOLPH H 7th S. V.
REBHUN, JACOB 22nd S. M.
ROSENBLATT, M. E 1st Cavalry
REISS, NATHAN M 2nd Cavalry
RICHTER, HERMAN Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
ROSENTHAL, ISAAC E 13th Cavalry
RICH, BENJAMIN H 22nd Cavalry
ROSENBURG, JOSEPH E 25th Cavalry
ROSENTHAL, EDWARD G 7th Artillery
REISS, SOLOMON Lieutenant 8th Battery
ROSENBURG, AUGUST C 14th Battery
ROSENTHAL, MILO ----
ROSENBURG, ISRAEL ----
SILVA, FRANCIS Captain 1st Infantry
SCOOLER, HENRY 1st Infantry
SEBESKY, WOLF 1st Infantry
STEINHARDT, ---- 1st Infantry
STERNBERGER, J. A 4th Infantry
SOLOMON, JAMES B 4th Infantry
SCHWARZSCHILD, HERMAN D 4th Infantry
SIMON, JACOB B 6th Infantry
SCHEIER, IGNAZ, K 6th Infantry
STERNBERG, SIEGMUND Captain 7th Infantry
STERN, ALEXANDER Lieutenant 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
STERNE, LOUIS Captain 7th Infantry
SIMONS, B. 7th Infantry
STRAUS, JACOB F 7th Infantry
SACHS, LOUIS H 7th Infantry
(reorganized)
SCHIMMEL, AUGUST Captain and 8th Infantry
Assistant Quartermaster.
SILVA, FRANK Lieutenant 8th Infantry
STRAUSS, FRIEDRICH A 8th Infantry
STERNFELD, PHILIP D 8th Infantry
SOBESKY, WOLF G 8th Infantry
SCHWARTZ, EDWARD H 8th Infantry
STRAUSS, SOLOMON H 8th Infantry
SPOREHASE, ALEXANDER 8th Infantry
SACHS, LOUIS 8th Infantry
STEINER, JOSEPH Captain 9th Infantry
SCHWEIZER, HERMAN P. A 9th Infantry
SIMONS, HARRIS H 9th Infantry
SOLOMON, BENJAMIN K 10th Infantry
SIMPSON, FRANK H. Commissary A 11th Infantry
Sergeant
SEIXAS, ISAAC G. Lieutenant C 11th Infantry
STEFFTER, WILLIAM 11th Infantry
STRAUSS, PETER Captain 12th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
SIMMONS, JACOB Corporal B 12th Infantry
SALMON, LEON N. B 13th Infantry
SIMON, JACOB I 15th Infantry
SCHOENBURGER, NAPOLEON Quartermaster 20th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
STERNBERG, MORITZ 1st
Lieutenant 20th Infantry
SCHOENTHAL, JACOB B 20th Infantry
SILBERSTEIN, MORITZ C 20th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville.
SCHLESINGER, MORITZ D 20th Infantry
SALOMON, LEOPOLD H 20th Infantry
SIMON, JULIUS H 20th Infantry
SCHWAB, GUSTAV H 20th Infantry
SANDERS, HERMAN G 21st Infantry
SALMON, DAVID D 23d Infantry
STRAUSS, GEORGE E 23d Infantry
STRAUSS, JOHN E 23d Infantry
SHALENSKY, CHARLES { 24th Infantry
{ 149th Infantry
SALOMON, HENRY K 25th Infantry
STRAUSBERG, AUGUST K 28th Infantry
SPEAR, JACOB D 29th Infantry
Seriously wounded.
SONNENBERG, EDWARD Sergeant E 29th Infantry
SALOMON, LOUIS F 29th Infantry
SIMON, CHARLES G 29th Infantry
SIMONS, DAVID A 31st Infantry
SALOMON, S. C 31st Infantry
SUMMER, SOLOMON C 31st Infantry
STRAUSS, ABRAHAM C 31st Infantry
SULMAN, S. C 31st Infantry
SALEK, ADOLF C 31st Infantry
STRAZNISKY, J. C 31st Infantry
STERN, LOUIS C 31st Infantry
SCHONFELD, E. 31st Infantry
STEINBACK, D. 31st Infantry
SIMPSON, J. Lieutenant 35th Infantry
SIMONS, HENRY F. B 35th Infantry
SALOMON, CORNELIUS 37th Infantry
SCHOENWALT, C. 38th Infantry
STERN, JACOB C 38th Infantry
SPIEGEL, LUDWIG C 38th Infantry
SIMONS, LEWIS H 38th Infantry
SIMONS, NOAH H 38th Infantry
SIEGMUND, OSCAR F 39th Infantry
SACHS, LEOPOLD Corporal I 39th Infantry
SCHAINBERGER, ALEXANDER A 41st Infantry
SCHWEITZER, JULIUS B 41st Infantry
SCHWEITZER, HENRY B 41st Infantry
SIMON, HENRY B 41st Infantry
STRAUSS, FERDINAND D 41st Infantry
SACHS, FRIEDRICH H 41st Infantry
SCHOENFELDER, GUSTAV K 41st Infantry
SIMON, FRIEDRICH K 41st Infantry
STRASSBURGER, J. 41st Infantry
SCHLESSINGER, ANTON Sergeant B 42nd Infantry
SULCHMAN, ---- Lieutenant 44th Infantry
SIMPSON, L. 44th Infantry
STRAUSS, MAX G 45th Infantry
SUSEDORF, CARL FREDERICK Captain 46th Infantry
SCHLESINGER, AUGUST B 46th Infantry
SELIG, JACOB Captain D 46th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
SELIG, ANDREAS 46th Infantry
SCHIFF, SIMON C 47th Infantry
SIMPSON, D. Corporal 47th Infantry
STEIN, GOTTLOB 49th Infantry
SALMON, DAVID E 49th Infantry
STEINBURG, SAMUEL G 51st Infantry
SICKEL, M. Quartermaster 52nd Infantry
STERNBERGER, JOSEPH A 52nd Infantry
SAMUELS, ISAAC Corporal D 52nd Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
SIMON, HENRY E 53d Infantry
STERN, ADOLPH Sergeant I 53d Infantry
STERN, WILLIAM Lieutenant E 54th Infantry
STRAUSS, ABRAHAM Sergeant G 54th Infantry
SCHULER, J. Sergeant 54th Infantry
SCHULER, F. 54th Infantry
STRAUSS, DANIEL B 55th Infantry
(S. M.)
SCHULER, CHARLES Corporal 55th Infantry
SILBERMAN, HENRY D 55th Infantry
SCHWAB, HERMAN H 55th Infantry
SIMONS, LOUIS H 56th Infantry
SILBERBERG, ANSELM 58th Infantry
SALOMON, JOSEPH B 58th Infantry
STEINER, LEOPOLD C 58th Infantry
STEINBERG, ALBERT I 58th Infantry
SAMUELS, HENRY Corporal C 59th Infantry
STRAUSS, FRANZ C 59th Infantry
STRAUSS, ABRAHAM D 59th Infantry
SAMUELS, LOUIS Sergeant H 62nd Infantry
SALOMON, PHILIP B 63d Infantry
SILBERMAN, JOSEPH A 66th Infantry
STERN, FERDINAND A 66th Infantry
STRAUSS, ADAM Corporal E 66th Infantry
STRAUSS, JACOB E 66th Infantry
SIMON, LOUIS Quartermaster 68th Infantry
SPITZER, LOUIS 1st
Lieutenant 68th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
SCHWERIN, HERMAN Lieutenant B 68th Infantry
SCHWEITZER, EMANUEL C 68th Infantry
STRAUSS, WILLIAM C 68th Infantry
SIMON, EMIL D 68th Infantry
SIMON, LOUIS Captain E 68th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
SINSHEIM, GOTTLIEB E 68th Infantry
STERNBERG, FRANZ K 68th Infantry
SULZBERGER, JACOB K 68th Infantry
SOLOMON, CHARLES B 70th Infantry
SOLOMON, LOUIS B 70th Infantry
SCHIFF, DAVID B 70th Infantry
STEINBERG, HENRY B 70th Infantry
SIMON, SAMUEL A 72nd Infantry
SOLOMON, MORRIS Sergeant K 72nd Infantry
SILVA, MANUEL Captain 73d Infantry
SILBERMAN, LOUIS B 74th Infantry
SALMONS, CHARLES HARMON G 75th Infantry
SIMON, BENJAMIN F. B 77th Infantry
SOLOMON, A. F 77th Infantry
STEIN, FRANK B 83d Infantry
STRAUSS, LOUIS G 84th Infantry
SPEAR, LEOPOLD E 87th Infantry
SIMONSON, JOSEPH Corporal H 87th Infantry
SOMMER, LOUIS Sergeant D 89th Infantry
SAMPSON, CHARLES 91st Infantry
STRAUSS, GEORGE G 95th Infantry
STEINER, JACOB H 101st Infantry
STRAUSS, G. CAPTAIN A 103d Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
STEINBACH, FRIEDRICH A 103d Infantry
SIEBERT, JULIUS H 103d Infantry
SIMON, LEWIS E 105th Infantry
SALMON, JOSEPH H 105th Infantry
SAMSON, LEVI C. C 110th Infantry
SPEYER, MORRIS Corporal A 119th Infantry
SCHWERIN, HENRY R. Captain 119th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
SUSSMAN, WILLIAM Sergeant I 119th Infantry
STERNBERGER, T. Quartermaster 121st Infantry
SAX, JACOB I 122nd Infantry
SIMMONS, LEWIS C 128th Infantry
STRASS, MORITZ Sergeant G 128th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
SACHS, LOUIS B 140th Infantry
SCHONEMAN, HENRY B 140th Infantry
STRAUSS, JOHN B 149th Infantry
SCHOENTHAL, GOTTLIEB K 152nd Infantry
STRAUSS, SIMON Corporal C 175th Infantry
STERNBERG, SIEGMUND Lieutenant 175th Infantry
STERN, MOSES C 177th Infantry
STEINER, D. 177th Infantry
SOLOMON, PHINEAS Captain D 178th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
SOLOMON, LEVI E 184th Infantry
STERNBERG, ABRAHAM Major 186th Infantry
STERN, MOSES A 191st Infantry
SOMMER, JACOB C 1st Independent
SELIGMAN, LOUIS Lieutenant D 1st Independent
Enlisted as private.
SCOOLER, HENRY 1st Independent
SIMON, JACOB F 1st Independent
SEBESKY, WOLF F 1st Independent
SIMON, L. G 1st Independent
Enlisted as private.
STEINHARDT, ---- G 1st Independent
SILVA, FRANK A. Captain E 7th S. M.
SCHLESSINGER, NATHANIEL F. E 7th S. V.
STRAUSS, G. ADAM F 7th S. V.
STRAUSS, SALOMON F 7th S. V.
STERN, ALEXANDER K 7th S. V.
STEIN, LEOPOLD B 17th S. V.
SALOWSKY, HENRY Adjutant 1st Cavalry
SCHWARZENBERG, J. 1st Cavalry
SACHS, HENRY G 1st Cavalry
SWAAL, T. W. Lieutenant 2nd Cavalry
SAMSON, JULIUS Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
SACHS, H. A 5th Cavalry
SOLOMON, BENJAMIN B 5th Cavalry
SAMUELSON, JOHN F 9th Cavalry
SAMUELSON, SAMUEL A. F 9th Cavalry
STERN, CHARLES H. K 12th Cavalry
SCHWAB, SIMON C 13th Cavalry
SHOLEM, LOUIS K 13th Cavalry
SCHWAAB, FREDERICK W. Lieutenant 16th Cavalry
STRASBURGER, JOSEPH M 1st Mounted Rifles
SOLOMON, JOSEPH D 2nd Mounted Rifles
STADEKER, JULIUS 1st Artillery
Wounded; captured; died in Libby Prison.
STEIN, HENRY L 2nd Artillery
STEIN, ADOLPH B 8th Artillery
SIMON, FRANK K 14th Artillery
STEIN, GUSTAV H 15th Artillery
STEIN, JULIUS H 15th Artillery
SAMUELS, ALEXANDER R. 6th Independent Artillery
SIMON, HENRY 9th Independent Artillery
SOLOMON M. Sergeant 27th Independent
Artillery
SCHWEITZER, ABRAHAM 30th Battery
SHALMEK, CHARLES ----
TRAUB, ADOLPH 20th Infantry
TANNHAUSER, HERMAN 29th Infantry
TSCHOPICK, ADOLPH 45th Infantry
TRUFFINGER, PHILIP Lieutenant 57th Infantry
THALHEIMER, JACOB E 151st Infantry
THALHEIMER, ANTON H 8th Cavalry
ULLMAN, BENJAMIN A 55th Infantry
VIEXELBAUM, ---- 1st Independent
Infantry
Captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
VAN ETTEN, DAVID D 23d Infantry
VAN BAALEN, HENRY E 49th Infantry
Killed at the Wilderness.
VEIT, MEYER 54th Infantry
VAN BOSH, MAX Lieutenant 3d Artillery
VAN ETTEN, JACOB I 5th Artillery
WOLF, CHARLES E 2nd Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH H 2nd Infantry
WOLF, WILLIAM C 3d Infantry
WOLF, HENRY C 4th Infantry
WOLF, MAX D 4th Infantry
WOLF, CHARLES G 4th Infantry
WEIL, OSCAR Adjutant 5th Infantry
(Veteran)
WEIL, CHARLES Lieutenant 8th Infantry
WEISS, ADOLPH Lieutenant 8th Infantry
(Veteran)
WOLF, WILLIAM Corporal B 8th Infantry
(Veteran)
WILDA, M. 8th Infantry
WOLF, WILLIAM A 9th Infantry
WOLF, WILLIAM A 9th Infantry
(Veteran)
WOLF, EDWARD B 12th Infantry
(Veteran)
WOLF, W. W. K 16th Infantry
WOLF, JOHN I 17th Infantry
WOLF, MARK 18th Infantry
WISEMAN, SAMUEL I 19th Infantry
WOLF, WILLIAM A 20th Infantry
WEISS, ADOLPH B 20th Infantry
WOLF, ADAM 20th Infantry
WENK, JOSEPH 20th Infantry
Lost an arm; Past Commander of Colt's Post No. 32.
WEISS, JULIUS A. C 21st Infantry
WEYMAN, NATHAN 24th Infantry
WASSERMAN, IGNATIUS 1st Lieutenant 29th Infantry
Mustered out as Captain.
WEINBERG, THEO. Sergeant C 29th Infantry
WOLF, GUSTAV Corporal C 29th Infantry
WEINER, GUSTAV Lieutenant E 29th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
WOLF, EMIL F 29th Infantry
WEISHEIMER, C. C 31st Infantry
WIENER, GUSTAV E 39th Infantry
WEIL, JOSEPH E 39th Infantry
WOLF, FREIDRICH Surgeon 39th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB I 39th Infantry
WIENER, GUSTAV B 41st Infantry
WOLF, JACOB B 41st Infantry
WOLF, LEOPOLD B 41st Infantry
WOLF, LOUIS 1st Lieutenant 52nd Infantry
Killed at siege of Petersburg.
WERTHEIMER, EDWIN Captain 54th Infantry
Special mention is made of the heroic conduct of Captain Wertheimer
at the battle on the plains of Manassas: With a small guide flag
in his hands he advanced and cheered the men to follow him, while
the enemy were pouring a perfect hail of lead into the Union lines.
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Captain Wertheimer particularly
distinguished himself by gallantly rescuing the State flag during
a murderous cross-fire of the enemy. While severely wounded, he
proudly and nobly defended it until unable to bear up any longer,
he placed the flag in charge of a brother officer.
WOLF, A. B. 54th Infantry
WEINBURG, ISAAC 54th Infantry
WOLF, ARTHUR S. Surgeon 55th Infantry
WORMS, A. C. Quartermaster K 58th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
WORMS, CHARLES 2nd Lieutenant K 58th Infantry
WERTHEIM, MORITZ Corporal K 66th Infantry
WENK, AARON K 66th Infantry
WENK, AUGUST K 66th Infantry
WENK, JOSEPH K 66th Infantry
WERTHEIM, LOUIS K 66th Infantry
WOLF, DAVID K 66th Infantry
WOLF, CARL A 68th Infantry
WOOG, EMANUEL C 68th Infantry
Wounded at Bull Run.
WOLF, SIMON D 68th Infantry
WOLF, ADOLPH I 68th Infantry
WOLF, LOUIS C 71st Infantry
WASSERMAN, MOSES G 71st Infantry
WARNER, WILLIAM 72nd Infantry
WARNER, PHILIP H 72nd Infantry
WOLFSOHN, CHARLES B 74th Infantry
WOLFSKY, LOUIS B 74th Infantry
WEIL, JOSEPH B 78th Infantry
WERTHEIM, HENRY F 84th Infantry
WATERMAN, CHARLES E 86th Infantry
WOLFSOHN, LOUIS C 87th Infantry
WOLF, PHILIP K 87th Infantry
WATERMAN, SAMUEL H. A 91st Infantry
WOLF, FREDERICK K 97th Infantry
WEILER, JOSEPH E 101st Infantry
WOLF, CHARLES H. I 102nd Infantry
WOLF, CHARLES F 117th Infantry
WEIL, JOSEPH B 119th Infantry
WEIL, LYON B 119th Infantry
WIENER, JOSEPH I 119th Infantry
WEINSTEIN, JACOB I 119th Infantry
WOLF, HERMAN F 127th Infantry
WISE, SOLOMON S. I 136th Infantry
WOLF, ABRAHAM B. D 148th Infantry
WOLF, HENRY B 154th Infantry
WOLF, JOSEPH F 163d Infantry
WENZLICK, R. G 173d Infantry
WOLF, WILLIAM Lieutenant 178th Infantry
WOLF, ADAM K 178th Infantry
WOLF, LEOPOLD B 1st Independent
WOLF, HENRY E 1st Independent
WOLF, GABRIEL F 5th S. V.
WOLF, C. H 5th S. V.
WOLF, JOSEPH F 7th S. V.
WOLF, WILLIAM B 7th S. M.
WIESBADEN, JULIUS D 7th S. M.
WOLF, LOUIS F 12th Cavalry
WEINBERG, MORRIS D 14th Cavalry
WOLF, LEOPOLD L 14th Cavalry
WOLF, JOSEPH L 14th Artillery
WOLF, CHARLES F 15th Artillery
WERTHEIM, HENRY 32nd Independent Artillery
WOLF, JOSEPH C. I 2nd Cavalry
WISE, THEODORE 5th Cavalry
ZOLLER, OTTO 7th Infantry
ZIMMERMAN, B. F 7th Infantry
ZABINSKI, GABRIEL Corporal 4th Artillery
NORTH CAROLINA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
AARON, MEYER 1st Infantry
Killed in battle; buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond
Virginia.
ABRAHAM, F. B 6th Cavalry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
ALTMAN, NATHAN G 40th Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
BEHRENDS, L. C 1st Infantry
BRANDT, JACOB 5th Infantry
BASS, BENJAMIN H 45th Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
COHEN, E. B. Lieutenant C 1st Infantry
DANIEL, HENRY F 10th Infantry
Captured; died, and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
DANANE, JACOB B 53d Infantry
EIGENBRUN, I. C 1st Infantry
ENGEL, JONAS C { 1st Infantry
{ 53d Infantry
ELIAS, LOUIS Lieutenant 11th Infantry
EIGENBRUN, ISAAC 35th Infantry
FRIEDHEIM, ARNOLD K 4th Infantry
Wounded at Seven Pines and at the Wilderness.
GOODMAN, HENRY G 26th Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
HYMAN, S. C 1st Infantry
HOFFLEIN, MARCUS Captain 4th Infantry
Afterwards on the staff of General Grimes.
HEINEMAN, MORRIS D 4th Infantry
HARRIS, EDWARD G 36th Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
ISRAEL, J. E 51st Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
JONAS, DANIEL D 1st Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
JACOBY, NATHANIEL 25th Infantry
KATZ, I. C 1st Infantry
KATZ, JACK 35th Infantry
KATZ, AARON B 53d Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
LEAVY, CHARLES M. ---- ----
Appointed Commissary by General Palmer in Special
Order, Number 23.
LURIA, ALBERT (MOSES) Lieutenant ---- Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant. At the age of nineteen years he was
appointed Lieutenant in a North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was
killed at Seven Pines, in June, 1862, while rallying his Company,
having seized the colors falling from the hands of the dying
color-bearer.
An incident of this brave officer's career is worth recording.
At the engagement at Sewell's Point, in May, 1861, an eight-inch
shell, with fuse still burning, fell into the Company's gun-pit,
and young Albert without a moment's hesitation, seized it in his
arms and put it in a tub of water, quenched the fuse and thereby
saved his own and his comrades' lives. The Company in recognition
of his heroism had the shell engraved with a history of the
incident, and adding the words, "The pride of his Regiment and the
bravest of the brave," sent it to his parents. It now stands upon a
pillar over his grave at the "Esquiline," near Columbus, Georgia,
as a fitting monument.
LEVI, ISAAC C. C 1st Infantry
LEON L. C { 1st Infantry
{ 53d Infantry
LEVY, J. C. C 1st Infantry
LEWIS, LOVET Captain D 4th Reserves
LEWIS, DAVID C 22nd Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.
MEYER, AARON 1st Infantry
Killed; buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
MYERS, MARCUS 2nd Infantry
MYERS, EZEKIEL Reilly's Battery
MYERS, WILLIAM Reilly's Battery
OPPENHEIMER, ---- { C 1st Infantry
{ 44th Infantry
OTTINGER, L. 2nd Infantry
Killed at Seven Pines.
OPPENHEIMER, S. B 44th Infantry
PHELPS, H. M. Sergeant B 1st Infantry
PINNER, I. M. E 3d Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
PINKUS, L. D 103d Infantry
ROSE, JOSEPH 3d Infantry
RICE, IGNATIUS B 8th Infantry
Commissary and Quartermaster-Sergeant
ROESSLER, J. Captain E 13th Infantry
Severely Wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness;
promoted.
ROESSLER, JACOB Captain F 13th Infantry
STERNGLANTZ, D. D 4th Infantry
SOUTHAN, LEVI A 28th Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, Mew York.
SELLERS, J. Sergeant G 36th Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
SIMON, JESSE C 20th Infantry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
SIMMONS, MOSES G 20th Infantry
Captured; died, and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
TELLER, E. 18th Infantry
WOLF, G. C 1st Infantry
Died from exposure; buried in Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
WEIL, HARMAN D 4th Infantry
WEISENFIELD, M. A 4th Infantry
WERTHEIMER, HENRY 35th Infantry
WERTHEIMER, GEORGE B 53d Infantry
WERTHEIMER, H. B 53d Infantry
Died in the service.
OHIO.
Name. Rank. Company. Regiment.
ABRAHAM, ALEXANDER G 2nd Infantry
ASHER, ALBERT 3d Infantry
Wounded in action.
ADLER, MOSES 4th Infantry
ARNOLD, LEVi 4th Infantry
Served three years.
AMBURG, LOUIS C. Sergeant 26th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
APPEL, JOSEPH 28th Infantry
AARON, THEODORE F 34th Infantry
ADLER, JOSEPH A 37th Infantry
AARON, HERMAN Sergeant F 37th Infantry
AARONSON, I. I 37th Infantry
ABRAM, JOSEPH C 39th Infantry
Died in the service.
APPEL, SAMUEL F 39th Infantry
APPEL, DAVID H. 45th Infantry
Killed in action.
ABRAHAM, HENRY Corporal I 49th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; died in the service.
ADLER, JOSEPH 58th Infantry
ARNBACH, SIMON 74th Infantry
AUERBACH, HENRY H. H 85th Infantry
AARON, LOUIS Sergeant A 108th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
BAER, ISAAC B 1st Infantry
BAER, SAMUEL I 1st Infantry
Served three years.
BRANSTETTER, ABRAHAM A 2nd Infantry
BERNHEIMER, SAMUEL 4th Infantry
BACHMAN, ADAM A 5th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Resaca.
BAER, WILLIAM 5th Infantry
Wounded in action.
BAUM, ISAAC E 5th Infantry
BLUM, HENRY 8th Infantry
BLUHN, ERNST 9th Infantry
BAER, HENRY Corporal 9th Infantry
BACHMAN, JACOB 12th Infantry
Died of wounds.
BASH, SIMON K 13th Infantry
BLUMBERG, JOSEPH C 14th Infantry
BLUM, DAVID K 18th Infantry
BUNZEL, W. J. 22nd Infantry
BERNSTEIN, LEWIS 24th Infantry
BAER, DAVID G 25th Infantry
BAUM, JOSEPH G 33d Infantry
BAUMGARDNER, SOLOMON C 34th Infantry
BAER, HERMAN 37th Infantry
BLAU, EMIL 37th Infantry
BAUM, AUGUST 37th Infantry
Wounded in action.
BLAU, A. 37th Infantry
Killed in Virginia.
BENJAMIN, DAVID Captain 39th Infantry
BAUM, J. C. H 42nd Infantry
BENJAMIN, FRANK D 48th Infantry
BING, JOSEPH 56th Infantry
BLOUT, HENRY 56th Infantry
BACHMAN, SOLOMON F 58th Infantry
BACHMAN, JOSEPH G 58th Infantry
Wounded in action.
BLUMENTHAL, FREDERICK 61st Infantry
BIEN, EMANUEL Sergeant I 61st Infantry
Enlisted as private.
BLUM, MANUEL E 67th Infantry
BAER, ABRAHAM A 68th Infantry
Served three years.
BAER, SAMUEL G 68th Infantry
BENJAMIN, SAMUEL F 69th Infantry
BLAUT, HENRY E 75th Infantry
BENJAMIN, J. A. C 76th Infantry
BAER, JONAS C 80th Infantry
BAUM, HERMAN C 80th Infantry
BAUM, KAUFMAN C 80th Infantry
BERLIN, JACOB Corporal K 80th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded at Mission Ridge.
BERLIN, SOLOMON 80th Infantry
Served three years.
BUSH, JACOB Sergeant-Major 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served three years.
BREYFOGEL, ISRAEL Corporal C 86th Infantry
BERNHEIMER, SAMUEL H 91st Infantry
BERNHEIMER, WILLIAM H 91st Infantry
Served three years.
BENJAMIN, LEVI D 97th Infantry
BAMBERGER, ADAM Sergeant E 104th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; served three years.
BAMBERGER, CYRUS 104th Infantry
BAER, JACOB Corporal F 106th Infantry
Served three years.
BACHMAN, LEOPOLD Sergeant I 106th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
BERNHEIMER, AARON D 107th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
BIEN, MORDECAI P. Lieutenant G 113th Infantry
BAUMGARDNER, EMANUEL 114th Infantry
Served three years.
BAER, JOEL 120th Infantry
Died in Louisiana.
BAER, JACOB P. 1st Sergeant A 123d Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured at Winchester.
BAMBERGER, JOHN G 128th Infantry
BRAUNSCHWEIGER, JACOB G 130th Infantry
BAER, JACOB B 133d Infantry
BREYFOGEL, C. W. F 9th Cavalry
COHN, HENRY S. D 5th Infantry
Served three years.
COHEN, J. 12th Infantry
COHEN, JACOB 18th Infantry
COBLENZ, EPHRAIM 19th Infantry
COHEN, AARON C 21st Infantry
COHN, BERNARD 22nd Infantry
COHEN, JACOB C. Lieutenant 27th Infantry
COHEN, ISRAEL A 30th Infantry
Died in the service.
COHN, JOSEPH H 34th Infantry
Wounded at Winchester.
COHEN, ISAAC D. Corporal B 35th Infantry
COHN, HENRY K 38th Infantry
COBLENZ, DANIEL 41st Infantry
COBLENZ, ADAM C 50th Infantry
Served three years.
COHEN, WILLIAM F. F 55th Infantry
COHEN, J. W. C 69th Infantry
Killed at Jonesboro, Georgia.
COEN, REUBEN L. D 77th Infantry
Killed in Tennessee.
COHEN, HENRY Sergeant G 106th Infantry
Wounded at Hartsville, Tennessee.
COHEN, WILLIAM Corporal H 114th Infantry
Died in the service.
COBLENZ, NOAH H 115th Infantry
Wounded in action.
COBLENZ, JOSEPH D. C 128th Infantry
DURST, GABRIEL 1st Infantry
Served three years.
DAVIDSON, JOSHUA 5th Infantry
DARLEY, DAVID 7th Infantry
DAVID, LEWIS Lieutenant 8th Infantry
DRYFUS, ARTHUR 9th Infantry
DANIELS, ABRAHAM H 15th Infantry
DE SILVA, MANUEL Lieutenant E 16th Infantry
EZEKIEL, DAVID J. Brevet Captain { 7th Infantry
{U. S. Army
Wounded at Shiloh and promoted from Sergeant by
order of General Banks for meritorious conduct.
EHRLICH, HENRY H 22nd Infantry
EPPSTEIN, LEOPOLD 24th Infantry
EPHRAIM, W. H. G 25th Infantry
ENGEL, SAMUEL Corporal K 85th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
ELIAS, ISRAEL 108th Infantry
ELIAS, ELIJAH A 115th Infantry
ERDMAN, CHARLES W. Sergeant-Major 121st Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
ENGEL, DAVID A. Corporal C 131st Infantry
ENGEL, SAMUEL C. K 131st Infantry
EISENSTAEDT, B. E 146th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, DAVID Captain 2nd Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
FOX, A. 2nd Infantry
Captured at Chickamauga; prisoner at Andersonville.
FRANK, JACOB G 3d Infantry
FRANK, WILLIAM D 5th Infantry
FRANK, SAMUEL 5th Infantry
FURST, JOSEPH F 6th Infantry
FRANKS, HENRY 7th Infantry
Killed at Cedar Mountain.
FRANK, A. 9th Infantry
FRANK, HERMAN 9th Infantry
FALK, NATHAN Corporal H 25th Infantry
Wounded in action.
FALK, C. 28th Infantry
FOX, LEVI E 31st Infantry
FALK, C. 35th Infantry
Died of wounds.
FRIEDMAN, JACOB 37th Infantry
Served three years.
FRANKFURTER, DAVID 37th Infantry
Served three years.
FLEISCHMAN, MORITZ Lieutenant I 37th Infantry
FRIEDLEIN, JACOB C 42nd Infantry
Died of wounds.
FRANK, CHARLES Corporal E 49th Infantry
Died of wounds.
FRANK, BENJAMIN 49th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB 57th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, G. 60th Infantry
FISHEL, DANIEL Corporal A 61st Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
FRANK, JOEL E 61st Infantry
Killed in battle.
FRANKHAUSER, D. 63d Infantry
FRANKHAUSER, S. 63d Infantry
FRANKHAUSER, L. 63d Infantry
FRANKHAUSER, SOLOMON A 64th Infantry
Wounded in action.
FRANKENFIELD, JOSEPH K 66th Infantry
Died in service.
FRANK, DANIEL D 69th Infantry
Served four years.
FRANK, DAVID D 69th Infantry
Served three years.
FRANKFURT, H. 69th Infantry
Killed near Atlanta.
FELDHEIM, EDWARD K 70th Infantry
FREUND, JACOB E 80th Infantry
FREIBERGER, DANIEL H 83d Infantry
FLEISCHER, JACOB F. B 86th Infantry
FRANKFURTER, JACOB F 86th Infantry
FRANKFURTER, H. 86th Infantry
FRANKFURTER, ALEXANDER 90th Infantry
Served three years.
FISHEL, SOLOMON H 105th Infantry
Served three years.
FURST, JACOB B 107th Infantry
Served three years.
FELS, JOSEPH Corporal F 107th Infantry
Promoted at Chancellorsville.
FRANCK, C. 107th Infantry
FLEISCHMAN, F. 1st Lieutenant 108th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
FRANK, DAVID 108th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, DAVID Captain E 108th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served three years.
FRANK, JACOB K 110th Infantry
FELS, SAMUEL D 114th Infantry
Wounded at Thompson's Hill, Mississippi.
FURST, JACOB H. E 114th Infantry
FURST, JACOB H. D 120th Infantry
Wounded at Jackson, Mississippi.
FRANK, DANIEL E 120th Infantry
FRIEND, LEVI E 134th Infantry
FRANK, C. 137th Infantry
FRANK, JOSEPH A 139th Infantry
FURST, SAMUEL C 139th Infantry
GUNTHER, A. 7th Infantry
Killed in action.
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH Quartermaster 15th Infantry
GREENWALT, D 24th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JAMES K 29th Infantry
GUGGENHEIM, THEODORE C 34th Infantry
GROSS, JACOB 34th Infantry
GROSS, D. 34th Infantry
GANS, DAVID M. Captain E 35th Infantry
GRATZ, MORRIS F 35th Infantry
Wounded at Fort Donelson.
GRATZ, EMANUEL I 35th Infantry
Died of wounds.
GOLDSMITH, GEORGE E 42nd Infantry
Died in the service.
GORREL, LEVI H 46th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JACOB 47th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, HENRY M. Lieutenant 56th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
GEIGER, JOSHUA G 72nd Infantry
Died in the service.
GOLDSMITH, LEOPOLD K 72nd Infantry
Died in the service.
GOLDSMITH, HENRY K 76th Infantry
Served three years.
GOLDSMITH, JOHN B 77th Infantry
Captured.
GOLDSMITH, B. B 83d Infantry
GREENWALT, ABRAHAM G 104th Infantry
Awarded by Secretary of War "Medal of Honor"
for capturing Rebel Corps flag in the battle of
Franklin, Tennessee.
GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM C 113th Infantry
Died at Nashville, Tennessee.
GOODMAN, ISAAC A 125th Infantry
Died in the service at Franklin, Tennessee.
GREENWALT, MICHAEL K 129th Infantry
GEIGER, JACOB G 130th Infantry
GREEN, SIMEON G 130th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOHN C 133d Infantry
GOTTSCHALK, GUSTAV D 138th Infantry
GREEN, SIMON Corporal F 177th Infantry
GANS, ISAAC Corporal 2nd Cavalry
Received a Congressional "Medal of Honor" for
bravery displayed on the battlefield.
GUGGENHEIM, S. S. 10th Cavalry
HART, BENJAMIN H 2nd Infantry
HARRIS, SOLOMON S. C 2nd Infantry
HARRIS, ISAAC K 3d Infantry
HELLER, ELIAS C 4th Infantry
Died in the service.
HIRSCH, J. K 5th Infantry
HERMAN, HENRY A 6th Infantry
HAHNEMAN, A. H 6th Infantry
HOFMAN, HENRY 7th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville.
HEILBRUN, ALEXANDER 1st Lieutenant 9th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
HERZOG, P. 9th Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
HEINEMAN, FREDERICK B 9th Infantry
HESSBERG, ISAAC C 9th Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB C 9th Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga.
HIRSCHMAN, ---- F 9th Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
HIRSCHBAUM, A. 9th Infantry
HIRSH, J. 10th Infantry
Served three years.
HERZOG, JACOB H 12th Infantry
Captured.
HIRSCH, WILLIAM 12th Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY A 17th Infantry
HESS, ISAAC C 18th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, ISAAC 19th Infantry
Died in the service.
HESS, JACOB 19th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, DAVID D 19th Infantry
HERRMAN, ADOLPH 22nd Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, JOSEPH K 22nd Infantry
HERZOG, ADOLPH 24th Infantry
HEYMAN, JACOB B 26th Infantry
HECHT, MOSES H 27th Infantry
HIRSCH, JOHN W. 28th Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, JOHN A 28th Infantry
HERRMAN, FERDINAND C 28th Infantry
HERRMAN, BERNHARD 28th Infantry
HERRMAN, JOSEPH K 29th Infantry
Died in the service.
HIRSCH, JACOB E 32nd Infantry
HOFMAN, LEVI 32nd Infantry
HOFFMAN, S. Sergeant 33d Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
HERZOG, BENJAMIN 33d Infantry
HESS, JACOB A 33d Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, HENRY B 33d Infantry
HIRSCH, HENRY D 35th Infantry
HERRMAN, LEWIS Sergeant I 35th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
HELLER, EMIL Quartermaster- 37th Infantry
Sergeant
Enlisted as Private; served four years.
HEINEMAN, HENRY 37th Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY 37th Infantry
Wounded in action.
HESS, FERDINAND E 37th Infantry
HART, ABRAM D 39th Infantry
HESS, JACOB 39th Infantry
HAHN, LEVI A 40th Infantry
Served three years.
HAHN, MORITZ A 40th Infantry
Served three years.
HELLER, JOSEPH C 41st Infantry
HOFMAN, REUBEN 41st Infantry
Died in the service.
HELLER, HERMAN B 46th Infantry
Died of wounds.
HOFMAN, LEVI 46th Infantry
Died in the service.
HERRMAN, JACOB H 47th Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY K 47th Infantry
HOFMAN, JOSEPH Sergeant A 48th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
HEINEMAN, WILLIAM 49th Infantry
Killed at Stone River.
HELLER, SIMON P. 52nd Infantry
HEIMAN, JACOB H 53d Infantry
HAHN, WILLIAM 56th Infantry
HERZOG, FELIX 57th Infantry
HESS, DAVID 57th Infantry
Died in the service.
HERRMAN, ADOLPHUS Corporal B 58th Infantry
Wounded in action.
HOFMAN, JACOB 58th Infantry
Killed in action.
HERRMAN, JACOB 58th Infantry
HEINE, JACOB G 58th Infantry
HOFMAN, SAMUEL 59th Infantry
HAHN, REUBEN 60th Infantry
HELLER, ELIAS F 63d Infantry
HAAS, MOSES Corporal G 63d Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, SAMUEL K 64th Infantry
HESS, ABRAHAM F 65th Infantry
HOFMAN, ABRAHAM H 65th Infantry
HELLER, HENRY Sergeant A 66th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; received Congressional
"Medal of Honor" for bravery and daring.
HEINEMAN, AUGUST B 68th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Champion Hills.
HERZFELD, JACOB H 68th Infantry
Served four years.
HAHN, W. C. C 69th Infantry
Served four years.
HESS, D. 69th Infantry
HAAS, JOSEPH 70th Infantry
Served three years.
HAHN, HENRY 70th Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB Sergeant C 72nd Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured; served three years.
HAHN, CHARLES G 72nd Infantry
HOFMAN, JACOB 73d Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, ISAAC Corporal F 74th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
HELLER, WILLIAM Commissary 78th Infantry
Sergeant
Enlisted as Private.
HART, ISRAEL G 78th Infantry
HERZOG, D. 80th Infantry
Served four years.
HERZOG, JACOB D 80th Infantry
Served three years.
HESS, MOSES D 80th Infantry
Died in the service.
HART, SAMUEL K 82nd Infantry
HAYS, AARON C 84th Infantry
HEYMAN, FRANK Adjutant 84th Infantry
HELLER, GEORGE K 84th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, HENRY B 86th Infantry
HELLER, CHARLES I 90th Infantry
Died at Murfreesboro.
HEINEMAN, ADAM K 92nd Infantry
HOFMAN, LEVI 96th Infantry
Died at Young's Point, Louisiana.
HAHN, JACOB D 106th Infantry
HAHN, HENRY D 107th Infantry
Captured at Chancellorsville.
HAAS, JACOB A 108th Infantry
HERRMAN, CHARLES Sergeant D 108th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; died from wounds at Resaca.
HOFMAN, JACOB H 108th Infantry
HART, LEVI H 110th Infantry
Wounded at Winchester and at Monocacy, Maryland.
HELLER, NATHAN D 111th Infantry
Served three years.
HAHN, HENRY I 111th Infantry
Served three years.
HARRIS, ISRAEL K 111th Infantry
HUHN, JOSEPH S. Sergeant F 114th Infantry
Promoted Corporal; wounded at Vicksburg.
HEIDELBACH, JACOB F 114th Infantry
HEIDELBACH, HENRY F 114th Infantry
HEIDELBACH, DAVID G 114th Infantry
Died in the service.
HEIDELBACH, H. 114th Infantry
HOFMAN, L. 115th Infantry
HAYS, ABRAHAM F 118th Infantry
Served three years.
HEIDELBACH, C. 122nd Infantry
Captured; served three years.
HEIDELBACH, A. 122nd Infantry
HEYMAN, SAMUEL Sergeant F 123d Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured at Winchester.
HEYMAN, JACOB F 123d Infantry
HAAS, JACOB K 123d Infantry
Died at Clarksburg, West Virginia.
HELLER, MOSES Corporal ----
Captured at Winchester; served three years.
HERRMAN, SIMON K 123d Infantry
Captured at Winchester.
HESS, DAVID K. F 125th Infantry
HELLER, CHARLES G 125th Infantry
HART, MARKS K 128th Infantry
HAMBURGER, FRANCIS D 131st Infantry
HOFMAN, EPHRAIM K 131st Infantry
HERRMAN, JOSEPH I 137th Infantry
Was honorably mentioned by President Lincoln.
HESS, NATHAN C 167th Infantry
ISRAEL, P. 3d Infantry
Wounded at Chaplin Hills.
ISRAEL, ALFRED 19th Infantry
ISRAEL, ELISHA F 77th Infantry
Captured.
ISRAEL, DAVID 97th Infantry
Died at Murfreesboro.
ISRAEL, WILLIAM 97th Infantry
ISRAEL, ELIAS K 108th Infantry
JOSEPH, JOSEPH F 15th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
JACOBY, BENJAMIN 35th Infantry
JACOBSON, OTTO 39th Infantry
JOSEPH, NATHAN B. 47th Infantry
JACOB, JULIUS F 47th Infantry
JUDELL, D. G 47th Infantry
JACOBSON, DANIEL Corporal F 49th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
JACOBY, DAVID K 49th Infantry
JACOBY, DAVID H. K 49th Infantry
JACOBY, HENRY K 49th Infantry
Died in the service.
JACOBS, FERDINAND Corporal 57th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, JACOB C 57th Infantry
JOSEPH, NATHAN C 59th Infantry
JACOBS, JOSEPH Lieutenant B 67th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
JACOBS, HENRY Sergeant B 67th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
JACOBY, FRANK F 69th Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN F 70th Infantry
JACOBS, DANIEL G 71st Infantry
JACOBS, LEWIS W. Sergeant I 71st Infantry
Enlisted as private; served four years.
JACOBS, M. Sergeant 71st Infantry
JACOBS, ALEXANDER E 75th Infantry
Wounded at Bull Run.
JACOBS, HENRY Sergeant F 75th Infantry
Enlisted as private; died from wounds received at McDowell.
JACOBS, DAVID H 75th Infantry
JACOBS, FRANK Corporal I 76th Infantry
Enlisted as private; served four years.
JOSEPH, JACOB A 80th Infantry
Wounded and captured.
JACOBY, HENRY Lieutenant D 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; killed at Gettysburg.
JACOB, MARTIN 82nd Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
JACOBS, BERNHARD C 83d Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, HENRY I 86th Infantry
JULIAN, S. 88th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY A 91st Infantry
Served three years.
JACOB, JOSHUA B 94th Infantry
JUDAH, EMANUEL F 94th Infantry
JUDAH, JOHN H. F 94th Infantry
Served three years.
JONES, S. 95th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY A 99th Infantry
JACOBS, JACOB H 107th Infantry
JACOB, LOUIS Corporal C 108th Infantry
JACOB, HENRY J. Sergeant K 110th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; served three years.
JACOBS, CHARLES B 111th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, MICHAEL H 111th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, A. 125th Infantry
JACOBY, N. 115th Infantry
JACOBS, S. 125th Infantry
JACOBS, ABRAHAM I 128th Infantry
JACOBY, EDWIN Sergeant B 130th Infantry
JACOBS, GUSTAV F 130th Infantry
JACOBS, S. 135th Infantry
JACOBS, BENJAMIN T. A 135th Infantry
JACOBS, LOUIS C. A 138th Infantry
KLINE, M. Lieutenant K 1st Infantry
KLINE, MOSES A 2nd Infantry
Captured at Chickamauga.
KIEFER, WILLIAM A 2nd Infantry
KAUFMAN, DAVID B 2nd Infantry
KAUFMAN, SAMUEL F 4th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville.
KOHN, SIEGMUND G 5th Infantry
Killed at Port Republic.
KAUFMAN, JOSEPH 5th Infantry
Served three years.
KING, SAMUEL 7th Infantry
KOCH, MICHAEL 9th Infantry
KUHN, ISIDORE H 9th Infantry
Served three years.
KUHN, JACOB F 10th Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFMAN, G. 12th Infantry
Wounded in action.
KAUFMAN, JACOB K 16th Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFMAN, DAVID G 18th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JONATHAN 21st Infantry
Died in the service.
KLEIN, MOSES Captain H 22nd Infantry
Served three years.
KLEIN, FRANK H 22nd Infantry
KLEIN, DAVID Corporal 24th Infantry
KAHN, SIMON G 25th Infantry
Wounded at Cross Keys.
KOENIGSBERGER, HERMAN Lieutenant 28th Infantry
KOCH, LEWIS 28th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK A 28th Infantry
KAHN, LEWIS F 28th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK K 28th Infantry
KOCH, JACOB H 30th Infantry
KAUFMAN, SOLOMON Quartermaster 32nd Infantry
Enlisted as private.
KOCH, SAMUEL H 33d Infantry
Died in the service.
KAUFMAN, JOSEPH C. 36th Infantry
KLEIN, MORITZ E 37th Infantry
KAUFMAN, SAMUEL C 38th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK Sergeant K 42nd Infantry
Promoted from private.
KING, EMANUEL E 44th Infantry
KAUFMAN, BENJAMIN 44th Infantry
KLEIN, DAVID Sergeant 47th Infantry
Enlisted as private; captured.
KLEIN, ABRAHAM B 48th Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB W. Lieutenant 49th Infantry
Enlisted as private; captured at Stone River.
KLEIN, DAVID 49th Infantry
KOCH, JOSEPH Sergeant G 50th Infantry
KING, JACOB H 50th Infantry
KLEIN, DAVID 51st Infantry
KAUFMAN, W. H. 1st Lieutenant A 52nd Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
KOCH, HENRY K 52nd Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB 58th Infantry
KING, DAVID 62nd Infantry
Killed in action.
KAUFMAN, LEVI Lieutenant B 68th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
KAUFMAN, DAVID H 71st Infantry
KAUFMAN, ISAAC 72nd Infantry
Wounded at Shiloh.
KLEIN, JOSEPH H 73d Infantry
KLEIN, DAVID B. B 74th Infantry
KLEIN, D. J. 75th Infantry
Wounded and captured at Gainesville.
KLEIN, ISAAC A 76th Infantry
KLEIN, LOUIS E 76th Infantry
KLEIN, ISAIAH Sergeant G 77th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; died in the service.
KLEIN, FRANK 82nd Infantry
KLEIN, FRANK 83d Infantry
KAUFMAN, HENRY I 83d Infantry
Served three years.
KOCH, JACOB E 84th Infantry
KAUFMAN, DAVID C 86th Infantry
KAUFMAN, HERMAN S. Corporal I 86th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK I 87th Infantry
KLEIN, D. 91st Infantry
KLEIN, S. 92nd Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFMAN, ABRAHAM A 94th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK 94th Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB Sergeant A 96th Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB Sergeant A 96th Infantry
Enlisted at Private; served three years.
KLEIN, JONAS C 96th Infantry
Captured.
KLEIN, JACOB Sergeant F 96th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
KAUFMAN, JACOB J. Corporal F 96th Infantry
KAUFMAN, EMANUEL Captain 100th Infantry
Died at Knoxville, Tennessee.
KAUFMAN, DANIEL D 102nd Infantry
Captured at Athens; died in rebel prison.
KLEIN, JOSEPH 102nd Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFMAN, HENRY A 106th Infantry
KAUFMAN, LOUIS Captain C 106th Infantry
KOCH, HENRY C 108th Infantry
Killed at Hartsville, Tennessee.
KING, DAVID Sergeant I 108th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded near Petersburg; served three years.
KAUFMAN, PHILIP E 110th Infantry
Wounded near Petersburg.
KAUFMAN, HENRY I 110th Infantry
Captured at Winchester, and wounded at Cedar Creek.
KLEIN, JONAS L. Corporal 111th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
KLEIN, ISAAC N. A 116th Infantry
KAHN, JACOB I 124th Infantry
KOHLER, DANIEL K 125th Infantry
KING, SOLOMON Corporal I 126th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served four years.
KOCH, MAX F 103th Infantry
KLEIN, EMANUEL D 131st Infantry
KLEIN, LEVI J. D 131st Infantry
KAUFMAN, HENRY K 131st Infantry
KAUFMAN, FRANK 1st Lieutenant B 132nd Infantry
KRAUSKOPF, SOLOMON Corporal B 132nd Infantry
KLEIN, SOLOMON D 132nd Infantry
KING, LEVI B 133d Infantry
KRAUSKOPF, JUSTIS I 138th Infantry
KLEIN, JACOB F 139th Infantry
KLIPPSTEIN, MEYER 7th Cavalry
KOCH, MOSES } 150th Infantry
KOCH, HERMAN} (three brothers) 4th Artillery
KOCH, JOSEPH} 177th Infantry
KOCH, JACOB 164th Infantry
LEVI, CHARLES G 2nd Infantry
LEHMAN, LEWIS 4th Infantry
LOSER, JOSEPH B 4th Infantry
LAZARUS, ED. Sergeant G 7th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; wounded at Winchester;
also at Cedar Mountain.
LAZARUS, MARTIN 7th Infantry
Killed at Antietam.
LOWENTHAL, JACOB G 8th Infantry
Died from sickness contracted in camp.
LANDAUER, SAMUEL Sergeant 9th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
LOVENSTEIN, NATHAN C 9th Infantry
Served three years.
LOWENSTEIN, J. C 9th Infantry
LEHMAN, JOSEPH Corporal F 9th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded at Chattanooga.
LEVY, NATHAN K 9th Infantry
LIEBERMAN, WILLIAM 14th Infantry
LEHMAN, BENJAMIN Corporal C 15th Infantry
Killed at Pickett's Mills.
LOWENSTEIN, GEORGE D 23d Infantry
LEOPOLD, WILLIAM H 23d Infantry
LICHENFELD, ADOLPH Corporal A 24th Infantry
LOESER, LEWIS A 26th Infantry
LEHMAN, THEODORE G 26th Infantry
LEHMAN, JACOB Sergeant 28th Infantry
LEHMAN, HERRMAN B 28th Infantry
LEHMAN, FERDINAND D 28th Infantry
LEOPOLD, FRANK G 28th Infantry
LEHMAN, JACOB E 32nd Infantry
LEHMAN, HENRY Sergeant H 32nd Infantry
Served three years.
LYONS, JOSEPH 33d Infantry
LYONS, DAVID A 34th Infantry
LEVY, WILLIAM F 38th Infantry
LEHMAN, DANIEL F 39th Infantry
LYONS, JACOB 40th Infantry
Killed in battle.
LEHMAN, ALEXANDER F 41st Infantry
Died of wounds.
LEHMAN, ABRAHAM G 41st Infantry
LEHMAN, SAMUEL F 42nd Infantry
LEVY, J. J. 43d Infantry
Served three years.
LIEBMAN, FREDERICK I 43d Infantry
LEHMAN, JOSEPH A 46th Infantry
Served three years.
LEVY, B. 46th Infantry
Wounded; served four years.
LEHMAN, NOAH D 48th Infantry
LEHMAN, ALEXANDER K 54th Infantry
LUDWIG, BENJAMIN 58th Infantry
LEVY, JOHN A. A 77th Infantry
LEHMAN, ISAAC D 81st Infantry
Served three years.
LOWENTHAL, THEODORE I 81st Infantry
LOWENTHAL, J. 81st Infantry
LEHMAN, NATHAN C 83d Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, LEWIS Sergeant D 86th Infantry
LEHMAN, SAMUEL S. D 86th Infantry
LICHTENSTEIN, JOSEPH F 87th Infantry
LEHMAN, DANIEL A 93d Infantry
LEHMAN, JULIUS H 93d Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, HENRY M. Corporal H 99th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
LOWENTHAL, THEODORE E 101st Infantry
LEHMAN, HENRY F 102nd Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, DANIEL F 102nd Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, HENRY A 107th Infantry
LEOPOLD, GUSTAV Corporal C 107th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
LEHMAN, NOAH I 107th Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, HERMAN C 108th Infantry
Served three years.
LOWENSTEIN, DANIEL G 108th Infantry
LUDWIG, FRANK Corporal E 111th Infantry
Enlisted as private; captured at Stone Mountain,
Georgia.
LEHMAN, JACOB Sergeant D 114th Infantry
LEHMAN, SAMUEL 114th Infantry
Died at Vicksburg.
LEHMAN, JUDAH H 115th Infantry
Served three years.
LEHMAN, JACOB Sergeant A 120th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; captured.
LEHMAN, SALOMON H 131st Infantry
LEHMAN, DAVID E. Corporal H 134th Infantry
LEVY, W. H. D 137th Infantry
LEVY, SAMUEL C 139th Infantry
LINDERMAN, J. C 1st Artillery
LEVI, HENRY I. 2nd Cavalry
MACHNER, EMANUEL E 1st Infantry
MOSES, WILLIAM E 1st Infantry
MEYERS, SAMUEL B 2nd Infantry
MORRIS, AARON 2nd Infantry
Served three years.
MICHELS, ABRAHAM F 2nd Infantry
MESSNER, LEVI 3d Infantry
MILLER, JONAS AARON E 5th Infantry
MEYER, BERNARD C 6th Infantry
MOSLER, HERMAN C 6th Infantry
MARKS, JACOB Corporal B 7th Infantry
Wounded at Cedar Mountain and at Dallas, Georgia.
MARKS, WILLIAM 8th Infantry
Killed at Antietam.
MARIENTHAL, SIMON 8th Infantry
MAIER, LOUIS C 9th Infantry
MANGOLD, AD. Lieutenant K 9th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
MANDEL, CHARLES 9th Infantry
Wounded in action.
MAYER, HENRY 9th Infantry
MAYER, JOSEPH 10th Infantry
Served three years.
MEYER, JACOB 11th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL F 11th Infantry
MAURICE, ISAAC I 11th Infantry
MANN, FREDERICK 14th Infantry
MOSES, SAMUEL F 16th Infantry
Served three years.
MANN, JOSEPH 18th Infantry
MAAS, DAVID 18th Infantry
MEIER, LEOPOLD A 22nd Infantry
Died in the service.
MILLER, ALEXANDER H 22nd Infantry
MILLER, WILLIAM H 22nd Infantry
MYERS, ABRAHAM 24th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY 24th Infantry
MEIER, FRANK 24th Infantry
MORRIS, NATHAN C 25th Infantry
MEYER, ADOLPH 25th Infantry
Wounded at Cross Keys.
MARX, EMIL 25th Infantry
MEIER, HENRY 25th Infantry
MENKEN, JACOB Captain B 27th Infantry
MAYER, LOUIS H. Commissary 27th Infantry
Sergeant
Afterwards Corporal of Company B, 27th Infantry;
subsequently detached for staff duty.
MAYER, ADOLPH Sergeant B 27th Infantry
MOAK, J. H. Lieutenant A 28th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
MARX, J. H. A 28th Infantry
MEYER, FRANK B 28th Infantry
MEYER, FRANK G 28th Infantry
MEYER, HERMAN 28th Infantry
Wounded in action.
MEIER, LEOPOLD 28th Infantry
MEYER, HERMAN 28th Infantry
MAYER, JOSEPH 28th Infantry
MAY, DAVID Corporal 32nd Infantry
MARKS, ABRAHAM E 32nd Infantry
Killed in action.
MANN, SAMUEL 33d Infantry
MORRIS, ISRAEL 34th Infantry
MEYERS, JACOB 34th Infantry
MEYERS, NOAH D 34th Infantry
MEYERS, SAMUEL 34th Infantry
MEYER, EDWARD 34th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH Sergeant 35th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
MEYERS, JACOB T. B 35th Infantry
MAIER, ISIDORE 35th Infantry
Died in the service.
MANDELBAUM, SOLOMON 35th Infantry
MAINZ, ABRAHAM 36th Infantry
MYERS, DAVID 36th Infantry
MORITZ, CARL Captain 37th Infantry
MAY, JACOB 37th Infantry
Died in the service.
MARCUS, FREDERICK 37th Infantry
Wounded in action.
MORITZ, JOSEPH 37th Infantry
MEIER, BERNHART L 37th Infantry
MAYER, FREDERICK 37th Infantry
MANN, DAVID D 39th Infantry
Wounded in action.
MORITZ, JACOB Sergeant H 46th Infantry
Entered as Private; served four years.
MANN, AARON B. I 46th Infantry
MYERS, SOLOMON 47th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB Sergeant 49th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
MARKS, SAMUEL Sergeant K 51st Infantry
MEYERS, JACOB B 52nd Infantry
MEYER, SAMUEL 54th Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH 54th Infantry
MANN, SAMUEl I 54th Infantry
MEYERS, ALEXANDER I 54th Infantry
Captured; died in rebel prison.
MEYER, JACOB Corporal ----
Enlisted as Private; wounded in action.
MENDEL, WILLIAM 56th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY 56th Infantry
Wounded.
MEYERS, JACOB 57th Infantry
Died in the service.
MARKS, HENRY 57th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB E 60th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEL A. E 60th Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
MARKS, ISAAC N. H 60th Infantry
MARKS, SAMUEl H 60th Infantry
MEYER, HERMAN 61st Infantry
MEIER, MARCUS Lieutenant I 64th Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH B 65th Infantry
MARKS, JONAS S. H 66th Infantry
MARKS, ISAAC H 66th Infantry
MAIER, ISAAC I 66th Infantry
MANN, ABRAHAM A 68th Infantry
MANN, AARON D 70th Infantry
MANN, ISAAC Lieutenant C 71st Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
MANN, JACOB Sergeant C 71st Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; served three years.
MAAS, HENRY 72nd Infantry
Died in the service.
MAY, SAMUEL B 73d Infantry
Died in the service.
MAY, JOSEPH C 73d Infantry
MAYER, SIMON D 73d Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
MANN, ISAAC 75th Infantry
Served three years.
MYERS, ISRAEL A 76th Infantry
Died in the service.
MEYERS, JACOB E 76th Infantry
Died in the service.
MYERS, FRANK 76th Infantry
MARX, EMIL I 78th Infantry
MENDEL, WILLIAM I 78th Infantry
Served three years.
MANN, JACOB K 83d Infantry
MAIERS, SOLOMON A 98th Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID 99th Infantry
Died in the service.
MANN, SAMUEL H 102nd Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID 102nd Infantry
MEYERS, LEWIS H. 102nd Infantry
MANN, SAMUEL K 104th Infantry
Served three years.
MAIER, WILLIAM B 105th Infantry
Served three years.
MEYER, SERAPHIM Colonel 107th Infantry
Captured at Chancellorsville.
MEIER, JOSEPH H 107th Infantry
Served three years.
MANN, JACOB Corporal K 107th Infantry
Died in the service.
MAIER, JOSEPH 107th Infantry
MEYERS, HENRY Commissary Sergeant 108th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served three years.
MEYERS, JACOB, JR. 1st Sergeant B 108th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
MEYER, JOSEPH B 108th Infantry
MEIER, DANIEL D 108th Infantry
MOSLER, MAX Lieutenant E 108th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY F 108th Infantry
MENKE, HENRY G 108th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH H 108th Infantry
MANTEL, LEWIS I 113th Infantry
MANN, DAVID C 116th Infantry
Captured at Winchester; died in the service.
MAY, SIMON Corporal E 118th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
MANN, JACOB E 118th Infantry
Served three years.
MANN, SAMUEL E 118th Infantry
Killed at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
MYERS, DAVID I 120th Infantry
Died in the service.
MAY, SAMUEL B 121st Infantry
MANN, JOSEPH H 121st Infantry
Served three years.
MEYERS, HENRY I 122nd Infantry
MEYERS, JOSEPH D 123d Infantry
Wounded at Opequan, Virginia; served three years.
MEYERS, JOSEPH P. Corporal I 123d Infantry
Served three years.
MEYER, ANSELM Corporal H 125th Infantry
MOSES, HENRY S. Sergeant-Major 126th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
MOSES, DAVID G 126th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Spottsylvania, Virginia.
MYERS, DAVID H. H 126th Infantry
Captured at Monocacy, Maryland.
MARKS, ALBERT B 128th Infantry
MEYERS, JACOB B 128th Infantry
MYERS, JACOB C. B 128th Infantry
MARX, LOEB C 128th Infantry
MAYER, ALBERT K 128th Infantry
MOSES, FRANK A. E 130th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH 130th Infantry
MANN, CHARLES E 131st Infantry
MEYERS, DAVID A 132nd Infantry
Died in the service.
MEYERS, JACOB K 132nd Infantry
MEYERS, SAMUEL K 132nd Infantry
MORGENTHAL, HENRY B 136th Infantry
MEYERS, MICHAEL D 136th Infantry
MOSES, GEORGE B 137th Infantry
MEYER, JACOB A 138th Infantry
MANN, JOSEPH B. Sergeant C 138th Infantry
MEYER, HENRY C 138th Infantry
MEYERS, ISAAC 169th Infantry
MEYERS, SAMUEL 169th Infantry
NEUBERGER, FREDERICK 28th Infantry
NEUBERGER, SAMUEL 44th Infantry
NEUSTAT, DAVID 58th Infantry
NEUMAN, CHARLES 61st Infantry
NIEMAN, DANIEL C 83d Infantry
Served three years.
NUSSBAUM, FRANK A 88th Infantry
NEWHOUSE, DAVID K. K 101st Infantry
Killed at Stone River.
NUSSBAUM, FREDERICK Sergeant C 107th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; served three years.
NATHANS, HENRY K 107th Infantry
NEUMAN, HENRY F 108th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, HENRY A 113th Infantry
NEWBAUER, JACOB B. E 115th Infantry
Served three years.
NAUMAN, JACOB Corporal G 120th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
NEUMAN, JACOB H 123d Infantry
NEUBERGER, WILLIAM M. F 134th Infantry
NEWMAN, JOSEPH Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
OCHS, FERDINAND Sergeant-Major 1st Infantry
Promoted from Private; served three years.
OCHS, GEORGE K 13th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, BENJAMIN 19th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, J. C 28th Infantry
OCHS, JOHN 37th Infantry
OCHS, JULIUS 52nd Infantry
ORBANSKI, DAVID B 58th Infantry
Was awarded a Congressional "Medal of Honor" for
distinguished bravery at Shiloh, Tennessee, and at
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
OCHS, HENRY B 82nd Infantry
Served three years.
OPPENHEIMER, ALEXANDER K 108th Infantry
OCHS, THEODORE G 123d Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
OCHS, JULIUS Captain Independent Company
POLLOCK, HENRY Corporal A 4th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
POLLOCK, JOSEPH 7th Infantry
PERLEY, VICTOR 7th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
PASSAUER, JOSEPH 9th Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga.
PARADISE, SOLOMON G 13th Infantry
Killed in battle.
PHILLIPS, ISRAEL I 13th Infantry
Served three years.
POLLOCK, WILLIAM 15th Infantry
Died in the service.
POLLOCK, DAVID Corporal E 48th Infantry
PEIXOTTO, MOSES L. Captain G 103d Infantry
Brother of Honorable Benjamin Franklin Peixotto.
PIKE, HENRY C. Lieutenant G 2nd Cavalry
RHEINHEIMER, JACOB E 1st Infantry
Wounded at Resaca.
RICE, ASHER 4th Infantry
RICE, SIMPSON 6th Infantry
ROSENFELD, WILLIAM C 9th Infantry
ROSENBERG, ABRAHAM 10th Infantry
Died of wounds.
ROTHSCHILD, DAVID A 11th Infantry
ROSENAU, G. 13th Infantry
Wounded at Chattanooga; captured; died of wounds.
ROSE, HENRY B 13th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENBERG, DAVID A 21st Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
RICHMIRE, SOLOMON G 23d Infantry
ROSENTHAL, SAMUEL Lieutenant 28th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
ROSENBERG, GUSTAV I 28th Infantry
ROSENBERG, JACOB G 29th Infantry
Killed at Port Republic.
ROSENBERG, W. C 34th Infantry
ROSENBAUM, HERMAN Captain 37th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
ROSENFELD, GUSTAV 38th Infantry
Served four years.
RAPP, JACOB 49th Infantry
ROSENBERG, GUSTAV 57th Infantry
ROSENFELD, ALEXANDER D 58th Infantry
Died in the service.
ROSENBAUM, WILLIAM D 58th Infantry
ROSENBERG, GUSTAV 61st Infantry
RUBEL, WILLIAM 63d Infantry
RICE, SIMON P. K 66th Infantry
Died in the service.
RICE, ISAAC L. C 67th Infantry
Killed at Winchester.
ROSENBERG, HENRY I 69th Infantry
RAU, LOUIS 72nd Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENBERG, DAVID G 76th Infantry
ROSE, GERSHOM Corporal B 78th Infantry
Enlisted as private; served three years.
ROSE, REUBEN
ROSENBAUM, SAMUEL K 82nd Infantry
ROSENBAUM, ISAAC D 89th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENBAUM, JACOB D 89th Infantry
REICHMAN, BENJAMIN 8th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSE, JACOB G 102nd Infantry
Captured; died in the service.
ROSE, DANIEL 104th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENBAUM, G. W. 104th Infantry
Served three years.
RUBEL, ISAAC F 106th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENBERG, JOSEPH H 106th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENFELD, SIEGMUND Corporal E 107th Infantry
Captured at Gettysburg.
ROSE, D. 113th Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
RICE, ESAU F 113th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSENDALE, CHARLES G 113th Infantry
Died in the service.
ROSE, EZEKIEL F 114th Infantry
ROSE, DANIEL B 116th Infantry
Captured at Winchester; served three years.
RICH, SOLOMON H 116th Infantry
Died of wounds at Piedmont, Virginia.
RICE, LEVI Sergeant B 118th Infantry
Enlisted as private; killed at Nashville, Tennessee.
ROSE, LEVI B. H 118th Infantry
Served three years.
ROSE, JESSE H 118th Infantry
Served three years.
RUHRMAN, ABRAHAM K 120th Infantry
ROSENBAUM, OSWALD H. Sergeant G 123d Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; captured at Winchester.
SCHERCK, SOLOMON D 1st Infantry
SCHANE, ABRAHAM M. G 1st Infantry
SUMMAS, JACOB G 2nd Infantry
SCHWAB, CHARLES 3d Infantry
SOLOMON, J. S. 5th Infantry
SOMMER, LEVI F 6th Infantry
STERN, CHARLES H. A 7th Infantry
Killed at Winchester.
STEIN, DAVID G. 7th Infantry
STRAUSS, J. 7th Infantry
Killed at Cedar Mountain.
SIMON, LEWIS F 8th Infantry
STERN, WILLIAM F 9th Infantry
STRAUSS, ERNST F 9th Infantry
Served three years.
SOMMER, JACOB 9th Infantry
Served three years.
SOMMER, JULIUS 10th Infantry
Served three years.
SUSMAN, MAURICE Lieutenant 13th Infantry
Enlisted as private; three years service.
SCHELT, MOSES Sergeant B 13th Infantry
STRAUS, LEHMAN Corporal C 14th Infantry
Served three years.
SAMPSON, SAMUEL Corporal 15th Infantry
SIEGMUND, EPHRAIM D 17th Infantry
SCHLOSS, JACOB G 17th Infantry
SACHS, JACOB C 28th Infantry
SILBERMAN, CHARLES G 28th Infantry
SCHWARTZ, LOUIS HENRY 28th Infantry
SAMPSON, JOSEPH Corporal 31st Infantry
SCHWAB, JACOB 33d Infantry
SOLOMON, R. K 33d Infantry
Died in the service.
SACHS, JOHN 34th Infantry
SCHWARZ, ISAAC 34th Infantry
SAMUELS, NATHAN C 35th Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga.
SIEDENBERG, HENRY B 37th Infantry
Killed in action.
SCHWARZ, ADOLPH D 37th Infantry
Wounded; served four years.
SCHWAB, ADOLPH 37th Infantry
Served four years.
SIMON, AUGUST Sergeant F 39th Infantry
SANGER, GEORGE Corporal 41st Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
SAMPSON, SAMUEL 41st Infantry
Served four years.
SCHWARZ, DAVID H 46th Infantry
STERN, SOLOMON Sergeant K 46th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
STERNBERG, HENRY 47th Infantry
SOLOMON, J. E. 48th Infantry
STRAUSS, EDWARD G 51st Infantry
SALTSMAN, BENJAMIN 52nd Infantry
Served three years.
SALTSMAN, JOSHUA 52nd Infantry
Served three years.
SAMPSON, DAVID W. 53d Infantry
STRAUSS, WILLIAM B 57th Infantry
SALOMON, JOSEPH H 57th Infantry
SEELIG, SAMUEL Sergeant 58th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded.
STRAUS, FREDERIC 58th Infantry
Killed in action.
STEIN, JACOB 58th Infantry
SAMLUNG, EDWARD B 58th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Shiloh.
SCHLESINGER, DAVID B. 58th Infantry
Served four years.
STRAUS, DAVID B 63d Infantry
STRAUS, AARON K 63d Infantry
SOLOMON, ABRAHAM H 64th Infantry
Killed in action.
STRAUS, FREDERICK 66th Infantry
Captured.
STERN, ISAAC K 72nd Infantry
SIMON, JOSEPH 81st Infantry
STERN, JACOB G. G 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Bull Run.
SCHWARZ, ABRAHAM 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville.
SCHWARZ, JOSEPH 82nd Infantry
Wounded at Dallas, Georgia.
STEIN, LEWIS 84th Infantry
STEIN, L. 85th Infantry
STRAUSS, ABRAHAM D 86th Infantry
STERN, JOHN K 86th Infantry
STEIN, LOUIS A 88th Infantry
STERNBERG, JACOB H 88th Infantry
SAMPSON, SAMUEL 92nd Infantry
Served three years.
STRAUSS, GEORGE I 93d Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga.
SCHWAB, SOLOMON A 94th Infantry
SCHARFF, NATHAN B 94th Infantry
Captured near Lexington, Kentucky.
SOLOMON, JOSEPH K 95th Infantry
Died in the service.
STINER, ABRAHAM 96th Infantry
Wounded in Louisiana.
STEIN, REUBEN D. K 100th Infantry
Captured at Limestone Station, Tennessee.
SOLOMON, ISAIAH Corporal 101st Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
SAMPSON, FRANKLIN D 103d Infantry
SCHREIER, FRANK G 103d Infantry
STEIN, JACOB A 105th Infantry
STEIN, HENRY Lieutenant B 105th Infantry
Promoted from Private.
SACHS, WILLIAM K 106th Infantry
STRAUSS, JACOB A 107th Infantry
SCHWAB, SAMUEL I 107th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
SCHIFF, SIMON 108th Infantry
STEINBERG, A. Corporal 108th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; died at Chattanooga.
SIMON, ALBERT 108th Infantry
Died at Rossville, Georgia.
SIMPSON, SAMUEL G 110th Infantry
SCHWARZ, JOSEPH Corporal 111th Infantry
Wounded at Resaca; served three years.
STRAUSS, PHILIP E 111th Infantry
SCHWARZ, ABRAHAM B 113th Infantry
STRAUSS, NATHAN Captain I 113th Infantry
STRAUSS, ABRAHAM Sergeant I 113th Infantry
Served three years.
SCHWARZ, LEVI D 115th Infantry
Served three years.
SACHS, JACOB C. I 115th Infantry
SULZBERGER, LEWIS Corporal C 116th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
STEIN, JOSEPH C 118th Infantry
Served three years.
SPIEGEL, MARCUS M. Colonel 120th Infantry
Enlisted in the 67th Ohio Infantry; was soon promoted to 2nd
Lieutenant, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel, and for bravery manifested
on the battle-field, was appointed Colonel of the 120th Ohio
Infantry. This brave officer was wounded at Vicksburg, Mississippi,
and notwithstanding entreaties, rejoined his regiment, but to
fall at Snaggy Point, on the Red River, Louisiana. But for his
untimely death, Colonel Spiegel would have been promoted to
Brigadier-General, for which position he had been recommended by
his superior officers. Colonel Spiegel was the son of a well-known
Rabbi, of Oppenheim-on-the-Rhine, and a relation of the Greenbaum
family, of Chicago.
STEINER, JOSEPH A 121st Infantry
Served three years.
STRAUSS, JOHN G 121st Infantry
STEINBERG, MORRIS D 124th Infantry
Served three years.
STRAUSS, JOSEPH J. Corporal E 126th Infantry
Enlisted as private; served three years.
SOLOMON, CHARLES D 128th Infantry
Served three years.
SCHWAB, JACOB B 129th Infantry
STERNBERGER, MARK F 129th Infantry
STRAUSS, DAVID F 130th Infantry
STRAUSS, JOHN F 130th Infantry
SOMMER, CHARLES F 130th Infantry
SOLOMON, EDWARD B. A 131st Infantry
STEINER, HARRY G 131st Infantry
STEINER, HENRY G 131st Infantry
STRASBURG, J. 133d Infantry
STERNBERG, NATHAN D 138th Infantry
SIMON, ISAAC E 138th Infantry
STRAUSS, DAVID W. E 140th Infantry
TANNHAUSER, A. B 6th Infantry
Served three years.
TANNHAUSER, MOSES B 6th Infantry
TACHAN, HENRY G. Lieutenant K 6th Infantry
TYROLER, SIGO 7th Infantry
TROWNSTEIN, PHILIP Captain B 5th Cavalry
ULLMAN, JOSEPH G 16th Infantry
ULLMAN, ISAAC A 23d Infantry
ULLMAN, FRANK K 28th Infantry
ULLMAN, AUGUST 43d Infantry
ULMAN, ISAAC Captain A 80th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
ULMAN, FREDERICK 80th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Vicksburg.
VOGEL, ISRAEL D 32nd Infantry
VOGEL, FRANK 39th Infantry
VOGEL, ELISHA C 41st Infantry
VOGEL, NOAH 57th Infantry
WITKOWSKY, H. 1st Infantry
Served three years.
WISE, JACOB 3d Infantry
WISE, SAMUEL G 4th Infantry
WOLF, ALBERT 5th Infantry
WENDELSTEIN, MORITZ 5th Infantry
Died in the service.
WOLF, JULIUS 7th Infantry
WIESNER, LOUIS G 10th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL 17th Infantry
WOLF, DAVID 18th Infantry
WEIS, JACOB 19th Infantry
WOLF, DAVID F 21st Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL G 21st Infantry
WOLF, MAX 24th Infantry
Died in service.
WISE, SAMUEL G 25th Infantry
WOLF, ADOLPH G 28th Infantry
Wounded in action.
WOLF, ADOLPH A. 30th Infantry
Killed at Antietam.
WISE, JOSEPH 31st Infantry
WATKOWSKY, KAN K 35th Infantry
WISE, SAMUEL 36th Infantry
WEILER, JACOB C 37th Infantry
WEINBERG, LEWIS D 37th Infantry
Wounded in action.
WOLF, ADOLPH Sergeant K 37th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
WISE, LEVI K 39th Infantry
WOLF, AARON 39th Infantry
WISE, BENJAMIN L. I 40th Infantry
Served three years.
WATERMAN, HENRY 46th Infantry
WEIL, JACOB 47th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB Lieutenant F 49th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; killed at Chattanooga.
WOLF, ISAAC A 50th Infantry
WOLF, DAVID 51st Infantry
Died in the service.
WISE, JOSEPH M. B 53d Infantry
Captured; died in hospital.
WOLF, ISAAC H 54th Infantry
WISE, JACOB 55th Infantry
Died in the service.
WOLF, ISRAEL 57th Infantry
Died in the service.
WEISS, LEWIS E 57th Infantry
WOLF, LEVI H 57th Infantry
Died in the service.
WATERMAN, HENRY H 60th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB I 67th Infantry
Died in the service.
WOLF, LEVI M. C 68th Infantry
WISE, ABRAHAM A 71st Infantry
WIEN, ALEXANDER 71st Infantry
Died in the service.
WOLF, MARCUS 72d Infantry
Captured.
WEIS, LOUIS B 73d Infantry
Served four years.
WOLF, JACOB I 80th Infantry
WISE, DANIEL W. 82nd Infantry
WISE, HENRY K 82nd Infantry
WERTHEIMER, ANDREW B 83d Infantry
Served three years.
WISE, SAMUEL K 87th Infantry
WEINSTEIN, CHARLES W. E 88th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB I 94th Infantry
Died of wounds at the siege of Atlanta.
WISE, LEVI I 101st Infantry
Served three years.
WOLF, EMANUEL 101st Infantry
WISE, EMANUEL Corporal A 104th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
WOLF, M. I 104th Infantry
WISE, JACOB D 107th Infantry
Captured at Chancellorsville.
WEINMAN, LEOPOLD Sergeant F 107th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded at Gettysburg.
WEIS, JOSEPH H 107th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
WOLF, JACOB Sergeant K 107th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; captured at Chancellorsville.
WISE, LEVI Corporal E 115th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
WOLF, JACOB G 121st Infantry
WENTZ, JACOB Sergeant G 123d Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured at Winchester; died in
Rebel prison.
WOLF, JACOB Sergeant K 123d Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured at Winchester.
WORMSER, NATHAN A 128th Infantry
Served three years.
WOLF, LEVI H 128th infantry
WISE, JOSEPH A. Lieutenant E 131st Infantry
WEISS, SAMUEL K 135th Infantry
DE WOLF, ISRAEL A 135th Infantry
DE WOLF, SIMON Lieutenant B 136th Infantry
WIENER, MICHAEL 150th Infantry
WOLF, SOLOMON B. Surgeon 165th Infantry
Served through the war.
WOLF, LEOPOLD C 1st Cavalry
PENNSYLVANIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ARNOLD, AMOS Sergeant A 14th Infantry
ARNOLD, BENJAMIN B 17th Infantry
APPLE, JACOB Corporal G 22nd Infantry
ASH, SOLOMON C 25th Infantry
ARNOLD, MAX A 27th Infantry
ADELSHEIMER, JACQUES Captain B 27th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; promoted step by step to
Captaincy; wounded at Chancellorsville; mentioned
in special orders for gallantry.
ADLER, NOAH B 27th Infantry
Captured at Gettysburg; sent to Belle Island.
ADLER, JACOB N. B 27th Infantry
ALEXANDER, JASTROW Lieutenant H 27th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; promoted to Regimental Adjutant subsequently
Adjutant on staff of General von Steinwehr; mentioned in special
orders for gallant conduct at Chancellorsville.
APPEL, FRANCIS H 27th Infantry
APPEL, HENRY H 27th Infantry
ADELSHEIMER, S. 27th Infantry
ALEXANDER, J. 27th Infantry
ARNOLD, AARON 40th Infantry
ABRAHAMS, ABRAHAM G 48th Infantry
APPLE, SAMUEL A. Sergeant B 51st Infantry
Served four years.
ALLABACH, C. H. E 54th Infantry
Subsequently in the United States Army as Assistant
Surgeon.
ARNOLD, GEORGE 63d Infantry
AARONS, SOLOMON B 69th Infantry
Served through the war.
ASHER, ASHER I 69th Infantry
Killed on picket duty near Richmond.
ASHER, MORRIS B 71st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg; Served three years.
APPLE, DAVID A. Captain B 83d Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain in
Veteran Reserve Corps. Died of wounds.
ABRAHAM, ISAAC M. Major 85th Infantry
Promoted from Captain; wounded near Deep Bottom,
Virginia.
APPEL, CHARLES A. { Lieutenant A 92nd Infantry
{ Captain F
AARONS, JOSEPH B 109th Infantry
Enlisted as a drummer boy while quite young; captured while
delivering a dispatch in second Battle of Bull Run; after release
appointed "orderly" on staff of General Geary, 2nd Division, 12th
Army Corps; served until close of war.
ARNOLD, JACOB E. Corporal E 114th Infantry
Served three years.
ABEL, JACOB W. 115th Infantry
Also in Veteran Reserve Corps; served as
army-hospital steward.
ARNOLD, HENRY F 133d Infantry
Wounded at Fredericksburg.
ARNOLD, ELI I 137th Infantry
ARNOLD, SIMON G 140th Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
ARNOLD, LEVI Sergeant F 143d Infantry
Also Veteran Reserve Corps; served three years.
ARNOLD, SIMON J. Sergeant-Major 151st Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant of Company K; Wounded
at Gettysburg.
ARNOLD, SIMON I 151st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
ARNOLD, MOSES P. Sergeant A 172nd Infantry
ANSTEIN, JACOB D 194th Infantry
APPLE, BENJAMIN Corporal I 209th Infantry
ALEXANDER, SAMUEL Assistant- 1st Cavalry
Surgeon
Killed at Dranesville, Virginia.
ALLEN, MICHAEL MITCHELL Chaplain 5th Cavalry
AUB, JACOB Quartermaster 5th Cavalry
ARMHOLD, MAX A 5th Cavalry
Captured.
APPEL, HENRY B 5th Cavalry
ALTMAN, SOLOMON K 14th Cavalry
ARNOLD, HENRY Corporal Battery 5th Artillery
I
ASCH, CHARLES J. Independent Battery
BARNET, MOSES A 1st Infantry
BIRNBAUM, CHARLES I 22nd Infantry
BLUMENTHAL, SIMON A 27th Infantry
BACH, LOUIS D 27th Infantry
BIGGARD, ISAAC K 27th Infantry
BELSINGER, LAZARUS D 28th Infantry
Served three years.
BEAR, ABRAHAM E. B 30th Infantry
BERNARD, AARON A. H 30th Infantry
BRANDON, ISAAC M. Corporal K 30th Infantry
BENJAMIN, OSCAR H. Sergeant B 41st Infantry
BLOOM, NATHANIEL F. Corporal F 45th Infantry
Wounded at Petersburg.
BACHENHEIMER, JACOB Sergeant 51st Infantry
Wounded at Cold Harbor.
BARNETT, PHILIP A. Corporal B 51st Infantry
BAHNEY, MOSES Corporal B 54th Infantry
BERKOWITZ, LEON Corporal H 59th Infantry
BARNETT, NATHANIEL P. Assistant 72nd Infantry
Surgeon
BAIR, JOSEPH A 79th Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga; Served four years.
BAMBERGER, HENRY Corporal E 79th Infantry
Died of disease contracted in the service.
BARNETT, DAVID A. Corporal B 99th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Kelly's Ford, Virginia.
BLOOM, SAMUEL S. Lieutenant H 111th Infantry
BEAR, ELIAS C 122nd Infantry
BAER, BENJAMIN F. Captain F 122nd Infantry
Served three years.
BENEDICT, JACOB Corporal H 122nd Infantry
BAER, MICHAEL Major { F 123d Infantry
{ 204th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
BENEDICT, JOSEPH Sergeant K 126th Infantry
Severely wounded.
BEAR, HENRY H 133d Infantry
BLUM, AARON B 153d Infantry
BUSH, ASHER B 153d Infantry
BEAR, JOSEPH Sergeant I 153d Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
BLOOM, DAVID S. I 137th Infantry
BAIR, ISRAEL Sergeant F 195th Infantry
BACHMAN, JOSEPH Sergeant H 195th Infantry
BAUM, SAMUEL Corporal G 200th Infantry
Wounded at Fort Steadman, Virginia.
BACHMAN, H. C 2nd Cavalry
BLOOM, DAVID H. A 5th Cavalry
BIRNBAUM, HENRY F. Hospital H 5th Cavalry
Sergeant
Promoted from Private; served about four years.
BERG, HENRY Corporal D 11th Cavalry
Enlisted as Private; wounded near Richmond;
served three years.
BLUM, JULIUS Corporal A Independent
Battery
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
COHEN, JACOB DA SILVA Assistant 26th Infantry
SOLIS Surgeon
Subsequently in United States Navy, in Commodore
Du Pont's expedition to Port Royal.
CAHN, LOUIS 27th Infantry
CROMELIEN, WASHINGTON Sergeant-Major 27th Infantry
Discharged to accept Commission as Lieutenant
65th Infantry
COHN, IGNATZ { Lieutenant C 27th Infantry
{ Captain B
CALKER, ISAAC B 33d Infantry
Died from effects of wounds.
CASNER, ABRAHAM I 38th Infantry
COHEN, J. Sergeant 62nd Infantry
COHEN, LEWIS F 122nd Infantry
CANTNER, JACOB C 126th Infantry
CONSTINE, LEWIS C 143d Infantry
Killed at White Oak Church.
COHEN, A. J. Captain A 5th Cavalry
Seriously wounded.
CROMELIEN, ALFRED 1st C 5th Cavalry
Lieutenant
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant; elected to Loyal
Legion U. S. Commandery of Pennsylvania; acting
Recorder of Commandery; titled Major.
CROMELIEN, JAMES Lieutenant G 5th Cavalry
Also Quartermaster.
COHEN, LEON SOLIS Corporal Keystone Battery
Wounded in action.
COONS, JACOB Captain Wyoming Jägers
DINBACHER, S. B 6th Infantry
DURLACHER, S. H 6th Infantry
De Young, Washington R. Lieutenant I 17th Infantry
Brevetted Captain for bravery.
DAVID, LOUIS N. E 18th Infantry
DOON, THEODORE Sergeant 23d Infantry
DUSCH, ABRAHAM C 27th Infantry
Also Veteran Reserve Corps.
DAVIDSON, JOSEPH Sergeant 28th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; killed at Chancellorsville.
DAVIDSON, ISAAC H 122nd Infantry
Died at Falmouth, Virginia, in 1862.
DAVIS, EVAN D 125th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; died of wounds received
at Chancellorsville.
DAVIDSON, JOSEPH A. I 134th Infantry
Killed at Fredericksburg.
DAVIDSON, ELIAS B. G 136th Infantry
DASHER, SAMUEL D 192nd Infantry
DINKELBERGER, J. R. E 1st Cavalry
DE HAAN, AARON A 2nd Artillery
DE HAAN, HENRY Sergeant M 3d Artillery
Transferred to United States Veterans, 2nd Regiment.
ELLENGER, JACOB I 26th Infantry
Served three years.
ELLENGER, WILLIAM I 26th Infantry
EINSTEIN, MAX Colonel 27th Infantry
Born at Buchau, Wurtemberg, Germany, October 10, 1822; 1st
Lieutenant of Washington Guards, 1852; Captain of Philadelphia
(Flying) Artillery Company, 1853; Aide-de-Camp (with rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel) to Governor James Pollock, of
Pennsylvania, and Paymaster-General of Pennsylvania (with rank
of Brigadier-General) 1856; Brigadier-General 2nd Brigade,
Pennsylvania Militia, 1860; Colonel of 27th Regiment of Volunteers
(Pennsylvania) 1861. This Regiment, under Colonel Einstein's
command, succeed in covering the retreat of the Union Army in the
first battle of Bull Run, and won credit by its conduct. Colonel
Einstein was subsequently appointed by President Lincoln, United
States Consul at Nüremburg Germany, and since then served as United
States Internal Revenue Agent in Philadelphia, where he still
resides.
ELLINGER, EMANUEL C 27th Infantry
EPPSTEIN, DANIEL 1st Lieutenant D 27th Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant.
EISENMAN, JACOB H 27th Infantry
EMANUEL, LYON LEVY Major 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant and Captain; distinguished
for bravery; served three years.
EMANUEL, LOUIS MANLY Brigade Surgeon 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Surgeon; rendered valuable
services; served three years.
ETTING, CHARLES EDWARD Captain D 121st Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant; Regimental Adjutant on Brigade Staff;
assigned to 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 1st Army Corps; served three
years.
ECKERMANN, JACOB B. E 139th Infantry
Wounded at Salem Heights and at the Wilderness.
EISENBERG, DANIEL { I 5th Cavalry
Transferred to { B
FRAUENTHAL, ABRAHAM Corporal { C 8th Infantry
{ D 9th Cavalry
At expiration of service, Lieutenant, Company I, 83d
Infantry. Served nearly four years.
FLOERSHEIM, HENRY Lieutenant A 27th Infantry
FRANKEL, MAYER A 27th Infantry
Honorably mentioned by Secretary of War.
FUCHS, JACOB B 27th Infantry
Transferred to 109th Regiment.
FRANK, CHARLES I 27th Infantry
FRIEDHEIM, ADOLPH E 98th Infantry
FELLENBAUM, DAVID K 122nd Infantry
FRANKENFIELD, E. B 153d Infantry
FRANKENFIELD, GEORGE B 153d Infantry
FROMM, NATHAN Corporal A 167th Infantry
FRANK, JACOB Corporal C 197th Infantry
FRIEDMAN, MAX Colonel 5th Cavalry
Born in Mühlhausen, Bavaria, Germany, March 21, 1825. He was
Major of a regiment of Pennsylvania Militia before the Civil War;
Colonel of 65th Regiment (5th Pennsylvania Cavalry) 1861; severely
wounded in battle of Vienna, Virginia, in February, 1862. After
his resignation, Colonel Friedman was commissioned to organize
other Cavalry Regiments in Pennsylvania. He was Special Inspector
of the Revenue Department (1867-1868); he started the Union Square
National Bank, of New York City, in 1869, and became its cashier.
He is President of the Veteran Corps of "Cameron Dragoons" (by
which title the 65th Regiment has been known). Colonel Friedman
resides in New York City.
FRANK, JACOB I 5th Cavalry
FISHBLATT, LEWIS Lieutenant E 8th Cavalry
FRANKEL, REV. JACOB Chaplain United States Hospital
GROSS, J. L. E 1st Infantry
GOODMAN, AARON A 14th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JAMES F 26th Infantry
Served three years; captured at Gettysburg.
GOLDBERG, SAMPSON Sergeant A 27th Infantry
GROSS, LEOPOLD A 27th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Cross Keys, Virginia.
GOODMAN, BENJAMIN B. Lieutenant B 27th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant.
GENTER, NATHAN B 27th Infantry
Wounded in action.
GASSENHEIMER, GUS 27th Infantry
GLASER, ADOLPH 27th Infantry
Transferred to 15th Heavy Artillery, New York.
GOODMAN, DAVID J. A 33d Infantry
Served three years.
GROSSMAN, LEWIS C 40th Infantry
Served three years; lost an arm and leg at Spottsylvania;
died from wounds; buried in National
Cemetery, Arlington.
GROSS, ABRAM F 41st Infantry
Transferred to 190th Infantry; served over three
years.
GROSS, ISAAC H 50th Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, LOUIS B 61st Infantry
GREMITZ, ---- Captain 62nd Infantry
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH Captain A 74th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
GOODMAN, DAVID Sergeant B 78th Infantry
Served four years.
GOODMAN, ISAAC Sergeant 91st Infantry
Promoted from Private; wounded at Petersburg;
served four years.
GOLDBERG, ---- Corporal A 91st Infantry
GASSENMAIER, JOSEPH D 98th Infantry
GOLDENBERG, C. D. F 110th Infantry
GOLDENBERG, HENRY F 110th Infantry
GALLINGER, JOSEPH B 123d Infantry
Enlisted at eighteen years of age.
GISNER, GEORGE Corporal 142nd Infantry
GOLDBACHER, ISAAC Sergeant 150th Infantry
GROSS, AARON C 153d Infantry
Captured at Gettysburg.
GOLDSTROM, LEOPOLD Quartermaster- E 5th Cavalry
Sergeant
Entered as Private; served four years.
GERSCHEL, ADOLPH I 6th Cavalry
Served three years, until expiration of term.
GOLDSCHMIDT, ANTON Lieutenant A 12th Cavalry
Promoted from Sergeant; served three years and until
the close of the war.
GOLDSMITH, JAMES Sergeant H 18th Cavalry
Promoted from Corporal; served three years.
HAYS, DAVID C 2nd Infantry
HIRSH, JACOB Lieutenant G 18th Infantry
HIRSH, MORRIS Corporal G 18th Infantry
HIRSCH, ISIDOR Lieutenant A 22nd Infantry
HELLER, HENRY Surgeon 27th Infantry
HELLER, MAXIMILIAN Surgeon 27th Infantry
HEYMAN, HERMAN A 27th Infantry
HARRIS, B. B 27th Infantry
HEIMBURG, JULIUS Quartermaster B 27th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
HERRMAN, FRANK Lieutenant C 27th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
HELLER, DAVID C 27th Infantry
HOUSEMAN, JACOB E 27th Infantry
HERMAN, PHILIP H 27th Infantry
HOCHSTETTER, A. 27th Infantry
HIRSCH, A. 27th Infantry
HERTZOG, JOEL J. Corporal { M 28th Infantry
Served three years. { D 147th Infantry
HERTZOG, JOSEPH E 29th Infantry
HENRY, B. D 32nd Infantry
HESS, JACOB H 36th Infantry
Captured.
HESS, MICHAEL H 36th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Fredericksburg.
HASSLER, AUGUSTUS Sergeant { F 41st Infantry
{ 190th Infantry
HERMAN, JACOB G 57th Infantry
HIGHTULL, ISRAEL Sergeant 61st Infantry
HOFFMAN, S. 67th Infantry
HARRIS, BENJAMIN Sergeant G 72nd Infantry
Enlisted as private.
HAMBERG, ANSEL Lieutenant { A 91st Infantry
Major { 44th Infantry
Colonel { 12th Infantry
He has been Junior and Senior Vice-Commander of
George G. Meade Post, No. 1. Grand Army of the
Republic.
HART, ABRAHAM I 73d Infantry
Captain and Brigade Adjutant-General.
Captain Abraham Hart, at present commander of Kit Carson Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, one of the large Posts of the District
of Columbia, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1832. At the
age of eighteen years he came to the United States and was employed
in a large house in Philadelphia, where he was residing at the
outbreak of the Rebellion in 1861.
He volunteered as a soldier in the 73d Regiment of Pennsylvania
Infantry, commanded by Colonel John A. Koltes; he aided Colonel
Koltes in enlisting other volunteers, and as early as August,
1861, was on his way with the regiment to help in the defences
of Washington on the Virginia side. While there, Lieutenant
Hart--for he had been promoted to a lieutenancy--was frequently
sent out on reconnoitring expeditions, and in one of these he had
a sharp brush with a body of Confederate cavalry which was also
out reconnoitring. Subsequently, Lieutenant Hart was promoted to a
captaincy, and when Colonel Koltes was elevated to the command of a
brigade in General Blenker's Division of the Army of the Potomac,
Captain Hart was detailed as Adjutant-General of the Brigade. In
this capacity he participated in the battle of Cross Keys, in
numerous skirmishes, and in the second battle of Bull Run.
At the battle of Cross Keys, the commanding General desired
information as to the position and movements of the opposing force
under "Stonewall" Jackson, and Captain Hart undertook to obtain it
for him. In pursuance of this undertaking, and in company with a
squad of picked men, he successfully made the circuit of the rebel
camp, obtained the desired information, and reported it to the
General.
At Sulphur Springs he was entrusted by General Sigel with the
command of a force to destroy a bridge over the Rappahannock which
was defended by rebel artillery, and he succeeded in destroying it.
At another time he had the good fortune to rescue several hundred
Union soldiers who had been captured by the Confederates.
But perhaps Captain Hart's most important service was done at the
second battle of Bull Run. General von Steinwehr's (Blenker's)
Division was in advance, and engaged in the first day's battle,
as well as in the second and third. In the afternoon of the
third day (August 30) of the fight, Koltes' Brigade was ordered
to silence a rebel battery which was doing us great damage. The
Brigade was several times driven back, but each time rallied, and
finally captured and spiked the guns. It was here that the Brigade
Commander, Colonel Koltes, was killed, and here that the Brigade
suffered the heaviest loss.
FUCHS, EUGENE Sergeant D 3d Cavalry
HERRMAN, JACOB Sergeant C 98th Infantry
Enlisted as private; wounded at Cedar Creek; served
four years.
HIRSCH, M. L. 101st Infantry
HIRSCH, AUGUST Corporal A 102nd Infantry
Wounded at the Wilderness; three years service.
HERMAN, EMANUEL Captain D 103d Infantry
HOFFMAN, LEOPOLD C 113th Infantry
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant; promoted from
private.
HYNEMAN, JACOB EZEKIEL G 119th Infantry
Wounded at Fredericksburg; also at Brandy Station and Mine Run;
transferred to United States Signal Corps; served three years
(1862-1865); has served since during riots in Pennsylvania; has
held several military ranks.
HOFFMAN, ABRAHAM Corporal E 186th Infantry
HYNEMAN, ELIAS LEON Sergeant C 5th Cavalry
A reference to this brave soldier and the sacrifice which cost
him his life is contained in our "Introduction," page 5, so that
little is left to record. Hyneman voluntarily enlisted in the 5th
Cavalry, after the first Battle of Bull Run. He was promoted from
Corporal to Sergeant, and was always eager for active service,
distinguishing himself in several battles, and being one of twelve
skirmishers who advanced on the enemy in the Battle of Gettysburg.
He fought dismounted in the Battle of the Wilderness. His term
expired in 1864, but so anxious was he to serve his country that he
re-enlisted, only to meet so untimely a fate as recorded. He died
on January 7, 1865, at Andersonville, of starvation and sickness,
and his body was brought for interment to Philadelphia five months
later.
As to Hyneman's course as a soldier, no stronger testimony than
that contained in the following official paper is required:
"I hereby certify on honor that I was well and personally
acquainted with Elias Leon Hyneman, who was a Sergeant of Company
C, 5th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, Volunteers, that the said
Elias L. Hyneman was a thorough and efficient soldier, and a person
of excellent habits, and known and respected as such by all in the
regiment. That he was ever foremost in the line of duty and at the
post of danger, and vigilant and patient in the prosecution of his
patriotic services. That by his zeal and enthusiasm to be foremost
among the defenders of his flag he was unhappily captured by a
merciless foe, and consigned to an ignominious and beastly prison
house, there to suffer for many months and at last to yield up his
noble spirit in death. Even his last life scenes were worthy of a
soldier and full of true manfulness. That I, being a prisoner of
war at the same time with said Elias L. Hyneman, heard of his many
sufferings with deepest regret. I sympathize sincerely with his
afflicted relatives and all who mourn his loss. He fought and fell
in the glorious cause of freedom and justice omnipotent.
"Given at Camp, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, near Richmond, Va.,
this 1st day of May, 1865.
J. FRANK CAMERON,
"_Capt. Com'd'g Company C, Fifth Penn. Cavalry._"
"Approval:
Colonel Commanding Regiment."
HARRIS, ABRAHAM B. Lieutenant F 5th Cavalry
HOFFMAN, DAVID B. G 5th Cavalry
HASSLER, JACOB Sergeant D 9th Cavalry
Served about four years.
HERZOG, JACOB Captain E 12th Cavalry
HAMBURGER, HERMAN Lieutenant L 18th Cavalry
Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Brigade, 3d Cavalry Corps, Army of
the Potomac; has been Judge in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, etc.,
etc.
ISRAEL, DANIEL F 10th Infantry
ISAACS, HENRY I 18th Infantry
ISRAEL, JACOB B 27th Infantry
ISAACS, HENRY { M 72nd Infantry
{ C
JOSEPHS, GUSTAV C 3d Infantry
And one year in Hancock's Veteran Corps;
served three years.
JACOBS, HENRY B 4th Infantry
JACOBS, JACOB Corporal K 11th Infantry
JACOBY, HENRY Corporal I 18th Infantry
JOSEPHS, AARON F 19th Infantry
JACQUES, HENRY Lieutenant G 26th Infantry
Wounded in second Battle of Bull Run, and other
battles.
JACOBSON, AUGUSTUS A 27th Infantry
Transferred to United States Navy.
JACOBY, HERMAN A 27th Infantry
Wounded at Missionary Ridge; served throughout
the war.
JACOB, JOHN B 27th Infantry
JOSEPHS, ABRAHAM F 27th Infantry
And one year in Hancock's Veteran Corps; served
three years.
JACOBY, HUGO Sergeant { A 27th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal; { 109th Infantry
transferred to
JACOBY, H. H 27th Infantry
JACOBS, HENRY F 28th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, SAMUEL H 29th Infantry
Served four years.
JACOBS, ISRAEL D 30th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, ABRAHAM B. { A 34th Infantry
Subsequently { 6th U. S. Cavalry
JACOBY, MOSES Corporal E 47th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
JACOBS, HENRY Lieutenant F 51st Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served four years.
JACOBS, SIMON D 99th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, HENRY H. Sergeant F 165th Infantry
JACOBS, ALEXANDER Corporal F 165th Infantry
JACOBY, JOSEPH Sergeant I 167th Infantry
JACOBS, THEODORE Assistant 187th Infantry
Surgeon
JACOBY, SIMON P. E 3d Artillery
JACOBS, S. H. 1st Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry
KOENIGSBERG, MAX Lieutenant A 12th Infantry
Wounded at Gaines' Mills; captured and sent to
Libby Prison.
KAUFFMANN, ISAAC B. Lieutenant C 16th Infantry
KIRSCHHEIMER, JOSEPH Sergeant 27th Infantry
KUHN, MAGNUS A 27th Infantry
KUHN, MARCUS A 27th Infantry
KOHN, IGNAZ Captain B 27th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
KUHN, ABRAHAM B 27th Infantry
KAHN, LOUIS C 27th Infantry
KATZ, JACOB F. C 35th Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFFMAN, SAMUEL A 46th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, LEVI H. Corporal H 52nd Infantry
KLINE, JOSEPH I 61st Infantry
Killed at Fair Oaks, Virginia.
KARPEL, JACOB C 63d Infantry
Died of wounds received at Bull Run.
KOHEN, FRANK P. Lieutenant I 67th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, BENJAMIN L. Corporal { D 90th Infantry
{ H 11th Infantry
KOSHLAND, NICHOLAS N. A 91st Infantry
KAYSER, MORRIS Captain B 91st Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant; served about three years.
KATZ, EMANUEL 98th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, JACOB Corporal A 101st Infantry
KLINE, NATHAN K 119th Infantry
Served three years.
KAUFFMAN, SOLOMON B. Corporal F 126th Infantry
KRAMER, SOLOMON H. Sergeant G 128th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, JONAS H. Assistant 151st Infantry
Surgeon
KAUFFMAN, JOSEPH A. Lieutenant B 154th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, JACOB Corporal F 171st Infantry
KAUFFMAN, DAVID S. Sergeant F 179th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, SOLOMON B. Sergeant B 202nd Infantry
KAUFFMAN, ISSAC B. 2nd Lieutenant H 9th Cavalry
Died of wounds received at Moore's Hill, Kentucky.
KARPELES, LEO 2nd Artillery
LIVERMAULI, MOSES B 2nd Infantry
LEVY, DAVID I 5th Infantry
LEVY, ABRAHAM E 6th Infantry
LEVI, CHARLES Corporal F 7th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, SAMUEL G 9th Infantry
Served four years.
LAZARUS, DAVID F 23d Infantry
LEWENBERG, JOSEPH I 23d Infantry
LEVY, AARON A 26th Infantry
Transferred to Signal Corps.
LUESCHER, JACOB Sergeant A 27th Infantry
Served three years.
LEO, CHARLES Lieutenant H 27th Infantry
Regimental Adjutant.
LOWENSTEIN, M. 27th Infantry
LAZARUS, AARON Brevet Captain D 28th Infantry
Enlisted as Private, and promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, 1st
Sergeant, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Regimental Adjutant, and
Brevet Captain, United States Volunteers; served three years; has
since been Captain and Major; member of Loyal Legion of the United
States (Commandery of Pennsylvania).
LACHENHEIMER, F. K 29th Infantry
LYON, ABRAHAM Corporal H 35th Infantry
LANG, PHILIP I 37th Infantry
LOWENTHAL, SAMUEL G 38th Infantry
Served three years.
LEBENGOOD, JACOB E 40th Infantry
So seriously wounded as to be disabled for further service.
LEVI, WILLIAM P. Sergeant C 54th Infantry
LICHTENBERGER, DANIEL Sergeant I 76th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
LEO, HENRY F. Captain B 115th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served three years.
LAZARUS, HENRY C 119th Infantry
Also Veteran Invalid Reserve Corps; served through
the war.
LEVY, HERMAN 119th Infantry
LEHMAN, EMANUEL D 127th Infantry
LEHMAN, JACOB D 127th Infantry
LILLIENSTINE, CHARLES I 127th Infantry
LEVI, JOSEPH Corporal G 129th Infantry
LAZARUS, WILLIAM E 132nd Infantry
Killed at Antietam.
LOEB, JACOB H 151st Infantry
LOEB, SAMUEL B. H 151st Infantry
LOEB, WILLIAM C. H 151st Infantry
Died at Fairfax Seminary, Virginia, June 27, 1863.
LONG, ISAAC H 151st Infantry
LEVY, PHILIP Sergeant G 193d Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
LIPOWITZ, HERMAN Sergeant H 215th Infantry
LANGSDORF, SIMON Corporal B 5th Cavalry
Discharged for injuries received at Williamsburg.
LEVY, MEYER S. C 5th Cavalry
LEVY, SAMUEL C 5th Cavalry
LEVY, THEODORE C 5th Cavalry
LANG, ERNST E 5th Cavalry
LEVI, SIMON I 5th Cavalry
LINDHEIMER, BARNEY 6th Cavalry
LANG, MORRIS 12th Cavalry
Captured at second Battle of Bull Run.
LEVY, BENJAMIN J. Brevet-Major 21st Cavalry
Promoted from Commissary of Subsistence.
LIEBSCHUTZ, ADOLPH Lieutenant 2nd Artillery
Promoted from the ranks for gallantry; served three
years.
MILLER, JONAS E 5th Infantry
Served three years.
MAY, SAMUEL F. K 8th Infantry
MAYER, LOUIS H. Sergeant C 13th Infantry
Also in Ohio Infantry, and staff officer in Regular Army.
MYERS, SOLOMON Lieutenant A 16th Infantry
MILLER, MOSES K 19th Infantry
MILLER, SAMUEL K 19th Infantry
MAY, SOLOMON W. 19th Infantry
MEYER, C. B 21st Infantry
MILLER, ALEXANDER H 22nd Infantry
MAYER, JACOB CORPORAL B 23d Infantry
MITCHELL, M. F 23d Infantry
MORITZ, JOSEPH C 26th Infantry
MOSS, JOHN { E 26th Infantry
Served three years. Transferred to { 99th Infantry
MEYER, JOSEPH I 26th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg; transferred to 99th Infantry;
served four years.
MAY, LOUIS A 27th Infantry
MOSER, LEO SERGEANT C 27th Infantry
MAY, MEYER D 27th Infantry
MAYER, HERMAN D 27th Infantry
MEYER, MOSES E 27th Infantry
MEYER, EMIL Lieutenant G 27th Infantry
MARX, DAVID G 27th Infantry
MAIER, JACOB H 27th Infantry
MOSER, DAVID H 27th Infantry
Died at Winchester, Virginia.
MAX, JACOB 27th Infantry
MEYER, MAX 27th Infantry
MYERS, SIMON P. G 28th Infantry
MARKS, EMANUEL K 28th Infantry
Died at Rectortown, Virginia.
MILLER, AARON I 36th Infantry
Served three years.
MYERS, LEVI I 36th Infantry
Served three years.
MOSES, JOSHUA I 42nd Infantry
MILLER, JACOB A 45th Infantry
Killed at South Mountain.
MOSES, DANIEL Corporal K 48th Infantry
MOSES, DAVID Lieutenant K 52nd Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; served until the close of the war.
MILLER, SOLOMON C. Sergeant A 57th Infantry
Served three years.
MILLER, JACOB C 61st Infantry
MILLER, JACOB Corporal H 61st Infantry
Disabled at Malvern Hill.
MYERS, EMANUEL Sergeant 62nd Infantry
MAZUR, F. 63d Infantry
MYERS, ISRAEL Corporal E 67th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
MOSS, WILLIAM Surgeon 70th Infantry
Surgeon United States Volunteers.
MYERS, ISAAC Corporal G 74th Infantry
MYERS, SIGMUND Corporal I 76th Infantry
Served three years.
MAYER, JACOB Sergeant F 82nd Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
MYERS, SOLOMON Captain E 87th Infantry
Served over three years.
MOSER, HENRY Corporal F 107th Infantry
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
MOSS, JACOB 119th Infantry
MYERS, HENRY H 122nd Infantry
MYERS, DANIEL S. I 127th Infantry
MYERS, ALBERT Sergeant H 128th Infantry
MILLER, AARON F 129th Infantry
MYERS, BENJAMIN F. C 130th Infantry
MYERS, JACOB A 150th Infantry
Also Veteran Reserve Corps.
MARKS, ISRAEL E 151st Infantry
MYERS, AARON J. Sergeant I 153d Infantry
Died of wounds received at Gettysburg.
MYERS, HERMAN Corporal A 155th Infantry
Served three years.
MOYER, EMANUEL Sergeant H 162nd Infantry
Killed at White House, Virginia.
MYERS, EMANUEl Sergeant-Major 165th Infantry
MARX, AARON J. F 169th Infantry
MYERS, LEVI Lieutenant E 178th Infantry
MYERS, DAVID Corporal H 183d Infantry
Enlisted as private; seriously wounded at Cold Harbor.
MILLER, AARON Corporal K 190th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
MICHAELS, DAVID Lieutenant I 210th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal and Sergeant.
MENKEN, NATHAN D. Captain ---- Cavalry
At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a body of cavalry and
was chosen Captain. At the Second Battle of Bull Run his horse was
shot under him. As commander of General Pope's body-guard, he won
the esteem and admiration of his brother officers for his bravery,
courtesy and firmness. In 1878, during the yellow fever scourge in
Memphis, Tennessee, Captain Menken refused to quit that city, but
remained at his post, attending to the suffering until the terrible
plague made this hero also a victim.
MILLER, JACOB 3d Cavalry
Died of wounds received at Mine Run, Virginia.
MOSS, JOSEPH L. Major 5th Cavalry
Lieutenant-Colonel 12th Cavalry; served three years.
MOSS, JACOB { C 5th Cavalry
{ H
MYERS, EMANUEL K 5th Cavalry
MAX, CHARLES E 6th Cavalry
MOELER, MAX Lieutenant E 11th Cavalry
MEYER, LEOPOLD Captain C 12th Cavalry
Served over three years.
MILLER, MOSES Corporal H 14th Cavalry
MOSER, HENRY Quartermaster- 19th Cavalry
Sergeant
Served three years.
MARKS, SIMON Custer's Division of Cavalry
MENDEL, HERMAN Sergeant L { 3d Artillery
{ 4th Cavalry
Subsequently in United States Army.
MESSING, BERNHARD Sergeant M 3d Artillery
Transferred 62nd Regiment, U. S. V.
NATHANS, OSCAR S. H 18th Infantry
NATHANS, THEODORE H 18th Infantry
NATHAN, LEWIS A 51st Infantry
NEYMAN, JACOB Signal Corps
OTTENHEIMER, SOLOMON A 19th Infantry
OSTHEIMER, NATHAN K 62nd Infantry
Killed at Harrison's Landing.
OCHS, JOSEPH E 5th Cavalry
OPPENHEIMER, LOUIS E 5th Cavalry
PINHEIRO, SOLOMON G 26th Infantry
Enlisted quite young as a drummer boy; subsequently entered United
States Navy; served there three years and took part in a number of
engagements.
PICKARD, M. 27th Infantry
POLLOCK, A. 27th Infantry
PROSKAUER, A. 27th Infantry
PHILLIPS, ISAAC W. K 29th Infantry
Captured.
PHILLIPS, ISAAC H. F 36th Infantry
PHILLIPS, DAVID J. Adjutant { 81st Infantry
Captain { I
PODOLSKY, THEODORE 101st Infantry
Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant, etc.
ROSENSTEEL, JACOB I 11th Infantry
Wounded at Rappahannock Station; served four
years.
ROSENFELT, NATHAN Sergeant D 26th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Gettysburg.
ROSENTHAL, MAX { D 26th Infantry
Transferred to { 99th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, WILLIAM F 26th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, ARNDT Major 27th Infantry
ROEDELSHEIMER, SOLOMON Captain A 27th Infantry
ROSENGARTEN, HENRY {Corporal A 27th Infantry
{Sergeant K
RINGETSTEIN, JACOB A 27th Infantry
ROSENHEIM, BERNARD A 27th Infantry
ROTH, LEWIS A 27th Infantry
REINHARD, FRANCIS B 27th Infantry
ROSENBERG, MAURICE Sergeant C 27th Infantry
Wounded at Lookout Mountain.
ROSENTHAL, ABRAHAM E 27th Infantry
REINHART, NATHAN F. Corporal F 27th Infantry
ROSENSTEIN, DAVID I 27th Infantry
ROSENSTOCK, JACOB A 28th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville; served three years.
ROSENBAUM, MICHAEL F 29th Infantry
RASHKE, MORITZ Sergeant 63d Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
ROSENFELT, NATHAN A 72nd Infantry
Wounded and captured at Antietam; when released,
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
ROTHSCHILD, SAMUEL Sergeant I 74th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
ROSENBERG, LOUIS Corporal K 82nd Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, LEWIS K 99th Infantry
ROSENBERGER, L. A. Lieutenant D 104th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; captured at Gloucester Point,
Virginia; served three years.
ROSENGARTEN, Lieutenant D 121st Infantry
JOSEPH GEORGE
Major on staff of General John F. Reynolds, Army of the Potomac;
Brevet Captain in United States Volunteers; served three years.
ROWE, SAMUEL W. Captain B 122nd Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
ROSENBERGER, SAMUEL G 126th Infantry
RICH, ISAAC B. Sergeant B 129th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
ROSENSTEEL, JACOB Sergeant F 139th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded at the Wilderness;
served three years.
RINEHARD, ALFRED A. Captain D 148th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; wounded at Po River, Virginia;
served three years.
ROSENSTEIN, MICHAEL Lieutenant K 173d Infantry
ROSENSTEEL, TOBIAS Lieutenant 4th Cavalry
Served three years.
ROWLAND, ADOLPHUS Major 5th Cavalry
Promoted from Lieutenant for distinguished bravery.
ROSENTHAL, LEOPOLD Captain A 5th Cavalry
Wounded at Fort Magruder.
RHINE, MICHAEL G 5th Cavalry
ROSENTHAL, EPHRAIM Sergeant A 12th Cavalry
Enlisted as Private; served three years, and until close
of war.
REUBENTHAL, ELIAS Sergeant I 12th Cavalry
Served over three years.
ROSENGARTEN, ADOLPH G. Major 15th Cavalry
(Anderson Troop)
Promoted from Sergeant; killed at Stone River, Tennessee.
ROSENBERGER, S. Assistant Surgeon 2nd Artillery
SONTHEIMER, BERNARD 6th Infantry
SCHWARZ, S. F. I 16th Infantry
SCHONEMAN, ABRAM P. Lieutenant { E 19th Infantry
{ 65th Infantry
{ Keystone Battery
STERN, ABRAM E. Corporal G 19th Infantry
STERN, CHARLES 19th Infantry
STERNBERGER, CHARLES 19th Infantry
STEIN, JACOB Corporal B 21st Infantry
SELIGMAN, MARCUS { F 26th Infantry
Transferred to { 99th Infantry
SALINGER, B. Lieutenant 27th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
SCHLOSS, ABRAHAM A 27th Infantry
SCHONEMAN, EMANUEL Sergeant B 27th Infantry
SPAETH, HENRY Sergeant B 27th Infantry
SHEIER, MOSES B 27th Infantry
SIEDLER, JOSEPH B 27th Infantry
SILBERBERG, MAX B 27th Infantry
Enlisted at eighteen years of age; took part in battles in
Pennsylvania, including Gettysburg; served twice as Commander of
August Willich Post, G. A. R.; also as President of Employment
Bureau of Grand Army of the Republic Association of Hamilton
County, Ohio.
STRAUS, JONAS B 27th Infantry
STEIN, LOUIS D 27th Infantry
SCHOEN, DAVID G 27th Infantry
STERN, JULIUS Sergeant H 27th Infantry
SCHLOSS, MOSES K 27th Infantry
Served three years.
SCHLOSS, DAVID 27th Infantry
SELKER, ADOLPH 27th Infantry
STROUSE, CYRUS Major 28th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
SNOWBERGER, ELIAS K 29th Infantry
STERN, DAVID 32nd Infantry
SNELLENBURG, ISAAC B 33d Infantry
Killed at Charles City Cross Roads, Virginia, buried
on the battle-field.
STROUS, JACOB G 34th Infantry
Served three years.
STEIN, JACOB A 37th Infantry
SIGMUND, ALBERT M. Assistant Surgeon 38th Infantry
STEIN, LEWIS E 41st Infantry
Served three years.
SILBERMAN, MARX Corporal A 51st Infantry
Raised a company of men in three days and became Corporal of the
company; started the company by signing first.
STINE, JACOB C 54th Infantry
STEINER, JACOB G 55th Infantry
Also Veteran Reserve Corps.
STROUSS ELLIS C. Captain K 57th Infantry
Entered as private; wounded at Charles City Cross
Roads and at Wilderness; served four years.
STROUSE, HENRY Corporal D 76th Infantry
STERN, HENRY Captain G 77th Infantry
Enlisted as private.
STERN, HERMAN B 83d Infantry
SOLOMON, AUGUSTUS Sergeant B 93d Infantry
Promoted from private; also in Veteran Reserve Corps.
STEINBRUN, J. D 98th Infantry
SNOWBERGER, ALBERT LEOPOLD 99th Infantry
Born in Philadelphia, April 4, 1845. He was sent to the Military
Academy, at Portsmouth, Virginia, when but fifteen years of age.
When the war broke out he enlisted in the Union Army, despite his
youthful age. He took part in a number of engagements with the
enemy, but at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13,
1862, he was mortally wounded, yet even in his agonies this young
hero "waved his cap and urged his comrades on to victory." He died
January 6, 1863. Of this gallant boy the lad's commander wrote to
his mother that "his bravery and heroism were remarkable for one so
young."
SALISBURG, DAVID S. Corporal B 102nd Infantry
STRAUSS, HENRY Surgeon 115th Infantry
STINE, DANIEL I 126th Infantry
STROUSE, LEHMAN K. Corporal F 128th Infantry
SALISBURG, SAMUEL B. Sergeant G 138th Infantry
Wounded at Monocacy, Maryland; served three years.
STROUSE, FERDINAND K. E 151st Infantry
STRAUSE, JOEL S. H 151st Infantry
STRAUSE, SALOMON H 151st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
STRAUSE, WILLIAM S. H 151st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
STRAUSE, WILLIAM T. H 151st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
SIMON, MICHAEL I 151st Infantry
STERNBERGER, LEVIN I 151st Infantry
SULZBACH, MILTON Quartermaster 166th Infantry
STRAUS, DANIEL Corporal F 167th Infantry
SILVA, DAVID Corporal G 181st Infantry
SIMON, JACOB Corporal E 183d Infantry
Promoted from private.
STEINER, LEVI A. H 194th Infantry
SCHLESINGER, MORRIS Adjutant 210th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant; died from wounds received
at Gravelly Run, Virginia.
SCHLOSS, HENRY Corporal E 5th Cavalry
Wounded near Richmond; served four years.
SCHLOSS, ABRAHAM E 5th Cavalry
Wounded before Richmond.
SONTHEIMER, MORRIS K 11th Cavalry
Served four years.
SCHOENFELD, J. 15th Cavalry
STEIN, JACOB Corporal K 3d Artillery
SALZMAN, ADAM Corporal G 5th Artillery
STRASSMAN, A. 2nd Battery
Wounded twice.
SCHONEMAN, R. A. Keystone Battery
THALHEIMER, ALBERT B 23d Infantry
Captured at Cold Harbor; served about four years.
TSCHOPEK, JOSEPH D 27th Infantry
TAFEL, ADOLPH Lieutenant H 27th Infantry
TELLER, MICHAEL, K 119th Infantry
Served three years.
TRAUTMAN, JACOB Sergeant E 5th Cavalry
Served four years.
ULMAN, JOHN Sergeant D 27th Infantry
Served three years.
ULLMAN, JACOB E 75th Infantry
Served four years.
ULLMAN, ---- Captain E 5th Cavalry
Was noted for his bravery; served throughout the Civil War; he was
also engaged in the war with the Sioux Indians in 1876, and was
one of those in the command of General Custer on that fatal day in
June; in which the entire command was surrounded by the Indians,
every man being slaughtered.
VOGEL, L. Captain E 27th Infantry
WIMPFHEIMER, MAX F 19th Infantry
WOLF, JACOB Corporal H 19th Infantry
WOHL, SAMUEL Lieutenant B 27th Infantry
WEINBERGER, PAUL B 27th Infantry
Transferred to 29th Infantry, New York Volunteers.
WARBURG, SIGMUND D 27th Infantry
WEINSTOCK, BERNARD D 27th Infantry
WEIL, JACOB H 27th Infantry
WARBURG, MOSES 27th Infantry
WETZLAR, MORRIS Lieutenant K 37th Infantry
Promoted; wounded at Pea Ridge; disabled.
WATERMAN, ISRAEL I 40th Infantry
Transferred to United States Regulars.
WOLF, DAVID Sergeant H 89th Cavalry
Served nearly four years.
WOLF, MORRIS A 3d Cavalry
Served three years.
WEINBACH, ABRAHAM
Quartermaster- A 12th Cavalry
Sergeant
RHODE ISLAND.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
FROINSOHN, SAMUEL 2nd Infantry
HARRIS, BENJAMIN 10th Infantry
PHILLIPS, JOSEPH S. 2nd Infantry
On staff of Commander General Sexton, of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
SIEGEL, M. I 3d Infantry
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ALEXANDER, ISAAC A 10th Infantry
ALEXANDER, ISIDORE A 10th Infantry
ALEXANDER, S. A 10th Infantry
ALTMAN, JAMES P. A 21st Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
ASHER, HENRY Hampton Legion
ASCHER, ABRAHAM 1st Cavalry
ASHER, HARRIS Washington Artillery
ABRAHAMS, E. H. Reserves
ABRAHAMS, THEODORE H. Sumter Guards
BOWMAN, LOUIS E 1st Infantry
BALL, BARNEY 2nd Infantry
Lost his life at Port Royal.
BAUM MANUS A 7th Infantry
BARUCH, H. K 7th Infantry
Enlisted a mere lad.
BROWN, MENDEL SERGEANT F 10th Infantry
Wounded at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and mortally
wounded at Griffin, Georgia; died in Griffin Hospital.
BENJAMIN, SOLOMON L 10th Infantry
BROWN, JOSEPH 10th Infantry
BROWN, SIMON 10th Infantry
BAUM, MARX 15th Infantry
Killed at the Battle of the Wilderness.
BARUCH, B. S. G 16th Infantry
BARUCH, HERMAN A 7th Cavalry
Courier to General Robert E. Lee.
BLANKENSEE, D. Hampton Legion
Killed at Manassas.
BELITZER, JACOB Washington Artillery
Mortally wounded.
BELITZER, THEODORE German Hussars
Killed in action.
CASHBY, A. 3d Infantry
COHEN, MORRIS 7th Infantry
Enlisted when not quite sixteen years old.
CLARK, H. 10th Infantry
COHEN, GRATZ 10th Infantry
Killed at Malvern Hill.
COHEN, LAWRENCE L. 2nd Cavalry
Enlisted 1861.
COHEN, ASHER D. Hampton's Cavalry
Enlisted 1861.
COHEN, ISAAC Hampton's Cavalry
Killed in action; buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond,
Virginia.
COHEN, MCDUFF Hampton's Cavalry
COHEN, ANSLEY D. Walter's Battery
COHEN, PHILIP I. Washington Artillery
Enlisted 1861.
COHEN, GUSTAVUS Washington Artillery
COHEN, HENRY Washington Artillery
Killed at Savage Station, Virginia, June 29, 1864;
buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
COHEN, AARON { Six brothers; { Washington
{ three { Artillery
COHEN, JACOB H. { serving { Washington
{ in { Artillery
COHEN, JULIUS { South Carolina { Washington
{ one { Artillery
COHEN, C. S. { in North { Washington
{ Carolina, { Artillery
COHEN, FISHEL { and two { 10th Infantry
COHEN, DAVID D. { in Virginia. { Hampton's Cavalry
{ Jefferson Rangers
Enlisted 1861.
COHEN, DR. MARX E., JR. Washington Artillery
One of the heroes of the Civil War was Dr. Marx E. Cohen, Jr., of
Charleston. He enlisted at the age of twenty-one. At the battle
of Bentonville, North Carolina, towards the close of the war,
some shells containing explosive material were thrown into the
Confederate lines from the guns of the Union forces. The captain
of Hart's Battery called for volunteers to hurl them aside before
they should burst and cause destruction to the command. Three men
volunteered to undertake the task; Dr. Cohen being one of them. He
and his companions were successful, but while returning to their
own lines all three were shot dead by Federal bullets.
DANIELS, L. B 15th Cavalry
Captured; died and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
DREYFUS, HERMAN Cameron's Battery
EMANUEL, EDWIN Sergeant A 10th Infantry
Died from exposure contracted in service.
EMANUEL, J. A 10th Infantry
EMANUEL, SOLOMON A 10th Infantry
EMANUEL, WASHINGTON A 10th Infantry
Enlisted when a mere boy; died from wounds received
at Atlanta, Georgia.
EMANUEL, H. 10th Infantry
ELLBAUM, G. 14th Infantry
ESDWA, ARTHUR A. Culpepper Battery
FOX, WILLIAM K 1st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg and captured.
FOX, M. SR. A 3d Infantry
FRIEDMAN, BENJAMIN A 3d Infantry
GUNDHAUS, S. I 4th Infantry
GUNDHAUS, J. L. I 6th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ISAAC G 16th Infantry
Killed in action.
GOLDSMITH, MICHAEL G 16th Infantry
GOLDSMITH, ISAAC P. 24th Infantry
Died in the service.
GOLDSMITH, A. A. Kershaw's 2nd Regiment
Wounded at Antietam.
GOLDSMITH, M. M. Reserves
HEYMAN, I. F 6th Infantry
Wounded at Owensboro, North Carolina.
HORNET, J. D. 2nd Battalion
HAMMERSLOUGH, A. 3d Battalion
HAMMERSLOUGH, H. 3d Battalion
HARTZ, H. 10th Battalion
HIRSCH, MELVIN J. Commissary Beauregard Infantry
Sergeant
Promoted from Private; served throughout the war.
HOLZHAUER, C. Washington Artillery
HOFFMAN, JULIUS A Kershaw's 1st
Regiment
HIRSCH, I. W. B Kershaw's 2nd
Regiment
Wounded.
JOEL, JULIUS C 1st Infantry
Lost an arm in the battle of the Wilderness.
JACOBS, ISAIAH Lieutenant D 2nd Infantry
Promoted from the ranks; killed at Knoxville, Tennessee.
JOSEPHUS, JOSEPH 1st Cavalry
JAMES, ---- Surgeon 7th Battalion
Promoted to Brigade Surgeon.
JACOBS, EMANUEL Washington Artillery
JACOBUS, J. J. Washington Artillery
JACOBS, FREDERICK Palmetto Artillery
JACOBS, REID Palmetto Guards
Wounded in action.
JACOBS, A. L. C Hampton Legion
Called "Little Jake;" wounded at Sharpsburg; killed
in Tennessee.
JACOBS, ABRAHAM Hampton Legion
Killed in action.
JACOBS, LOUIS Hampton Legion
JACOBS, MITCHELL Hampton Legion
JACOBS, H. ----
Killed in battle; buried in Jewish cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
KAPHAN, THEODORE Hagood 1st Infantry
KAHN, DAVID 8th Infantry
KAMINSKI, H. Sergeant B 10th Infantry
KAHN, ISAAC 12th Infantry
KOHN, THEODORE F 25th Infantry
From a newspaper clipping: "Theodore Kohn of Orangeburg, a veteran
of the Edisto Rifles, 25th Regiment, South Carolina, will carry to
his grave the wounds he received at Drewy's Bluff while gallantly
fighting for his adopted country."
KOHN, AUGUST 25th Infantry
Served throughout the war.
LEVI, LEOPOLD 5th Infantry
LEVIN, G. W. A 15th Infantry
LEVIN, SAMUEL A 15th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg, Maryland.
LOWENBERG, DAVID Sergeant A 16th Infantry
Served three years.
LEVY, MOSES 23d Infantry
He is spoken of by his former Colonel Benhon as one of the bravest,
truest and most devoted men in his command; he was captured at the
last battle at Petersburg, Virginia.
LEVIN, L. C. 2nd Cavalry
LEVIN, L. J. Wheeler's Cavalry
LEVY, LIONEL C. JR. Fenner's Battery
LAZARUS, M. H. Walter's Battery
LAZARUS, B. D. Washington Artillery
LAZARUS, BENJAMIN Washington Artillery
LAZARUS, MARX Washington Artillery
LAZARUS, SOLOMON Washington Artillery
Enlisted 1861; served until the close of the war.
LEVY, LIONEL L. Washington Artillery
Promoted to Judge Advocate.
LOPEZ, JOHN Palmetto Guards
From 1861 until the close of the war.
LOPEZ, MOSES Palmetto Guards
From 1861 until the close of the war.
LEVIN, S. M. Sumter Guards
Wounded at Secessionville.
LYONS, J. C. Company Cadets
LEHMAN, A. ----
Killed; buried at Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
MOSES, H. C. 1st Lieutenant 2nd Infantry
Promoted from Private, Lucas Battalion; wounded at
Manassas.
MOSES, PERRY D 2nd Infantry
Killed at Malvern Hill, aged 17 years.
MOSES, CLAREMONT E 2nd Infantry
Wounded in action.
MOSES, P. E 2nd Infantry
Seriously wounded.
MOSES, MEYER 2nd Infantry
MOSES, EDWIN L. 27th Infantry
Captured; died prison, Camp Chase.
MORDECAI, J. RANDOLPH Lieutenant Washington
and Assistant Artillery
Quartermaster.
Promoted from the ranks.
MOISE, CAMILLUS Washington Artillery
Served four years.
MORDECAI, G. L. Washington Artillery
The father of this soldier, the late Benjamin Mordecai, was the
first contributor to the Southern cause, donating $10,000 to South
Carolina.
MOSES, JOSHUA L. 1st} {Culpepper Battery
Lieutenant} {
Wounded at } {
Manassas; } {
killed at Mobile, } {
commanding } {
Battalion. } {
MOSES, JACKSON } {Culpepper Battery
MOSES, HORACE } Five {Culpepper Battery
Entered service at 17 } brothers. {
years; captured at } {
Mobile. } {
MOSES, PERRY, JR. } {Culpepper Battery
Wounded at Mobile. } {
MOSES, I. HARBY } { 6th Cavalry
Graduate of Citadel } {
Academy; served } {
throughout the war. } {
MOSES, DANIEL Culpepper Battery
MOSES, DAVID L. Culpepper Battery
MOSES, I. L. Culpepper Battery
Wounded at Manassas; killed at Fort Blakely.
MOSES, M. P. Culpepper Battery
MOSES T. J. JR. Culpepper Battery
MOSES, Z. P. Culpepper Battery
MOSES, MEYER B. Culpepper Battery
MORDECAI, THOMAS W. Hampton's Cavalry
Killed at Brandy Station, Virginia.
MANNING, JACOB Hampton Legion
Killed at Brandy Station, Virginia.
MOSES A. D. L. Hampton Legion
Wounded at Seven Pines.
MOSES, A. J. SR. Mellet's Regiment
MOISE, EDWARD Palmetto Guards
Enlisted 1861; served until the close of the war.
MOISE, ISAAC Palmetto Guards
Enlisted 1861; served until the close of the war.
OPPENHEIMER, EDWIN Sergeant G 16th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, JULIUS H. Sergeant G 16th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, SAMUEL Sergeant G 16th Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, H. D. H. G 16th Infantry
POLLOCK, B. C. A 1st Infantry
POLLOCK, CLARENCE A 1st Infantry
Killed at Spottsylvania, Virginia.
POLLOCK, J. L. A 1st Infantry
POLLOCK, T. M. A 1st Infantry
PEIXOTTO, S. C. 1st Infantry
PHILLIPS, ISIDORE Hampton Legion
PHILLIPS, MICHAEL A. Hampton Legion
POSNANSKI, GUSTAVUS Sumter Guards
ROBERTSON, ABRAHAM A 3d Infantry
ROBINSON, CHARLES C. 7th Infantry
Served throughout the war.
RICHARDS, MEYER 21st Infantry
ROSENDORF, JACOB 1st Calvary
ROTHSCHILD, BENJAMIN Hampton Cavalry
Killed at Gaines' Mills, Virginia.
SOLOMON, J. L. 2nd Infantry
SUMMERS, AD. 2nd Infantry
Drowned near Port Royal.
SULZBACHER, WILLIAM E 3d Infantry
SPIEGELBERG, MORRIS 16th Infantry
SEIXAS, B. M. 20th Infantry
SOLOMON, J. F. 20th Infantry
SCHILLER, LOUIS 1st Cavalry
SOMMERS, ISAAC Heavy Artillery
Killed at Siege of Fort Moultrie.
SHAPIRA, L. D. Hampton Legion
SAMPSON, HENRY Stuart's Command
SAMPSON, E. J. ----
Killed on June 27, 1864; buried in Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
TRIEST, MAIER 24th Infantry
VALENTINE, JACOB Captain Infantry
Served while a mere youth in the Palmetto Regiment during the
Mexican War and was wounded in the storming of Cherubusco. He
was believed to be the youngest pensioner of the United States
Government. He lived in Philadelphia at the passage of "Secession,"
and immediately went to Charleston, offering his services to his
native State. He was appointed Lieutenant in the first South
Carolina regular infantry and took part in the bombardment of Fort
Sumter, in April, 1861. He served in this regiment from that time
continuously until December, 1863, when he was severely wounded
while in command of Fort Moultrie. This wound was of so serious a
character as to prevent him from performing any further active
service. He was detailed to the recruiting department in which
he served until the close of the war. During the Mexican War he
received two medals; one for bravery on the battle-field, and
another for being the youngest soldier in the regiment.
VALENTINE, ISAAC R. Sumter Guards
Killed at Secessionville.
VALENTINE, H. M. Sumter Guards
Wounded at Secessionville.
VALENTINE, HERZ Palmetto Guards
Wounded in action.
VALENTINE, I. Palmetto Guards
Seriously wounded.
WITKOWSKI, ADOLPH 2nd Infantry
Severely wounded at the Wilderness.
WACHTEL, M. 4th Infantry
WERTHEIM, HERMAN Lieutenant 7th Infantry
Killed at Spottsylvania.
WERTHEIM, BERTHOLD G 16th Infantry
WETHERHORN, SOLOMON E 25th Infantry
WOLF, D. G 25th Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
WERTHEIM, LEVI German Artillery
WERTHEIM, JULIUS Hampton Legion
WILSON, J. C. Hampton Legion
WOLF, W. M. Lieutenant Hagood's Brigade
Killed; buried in Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
WARNER, HENRY Colleton Rifles
WERTHEIM, HEYMAN Kershaw's Command
Killed at Gettysburg.
ZACHARIAS, DAVID C 5th Cavalry
Killed at Mechanicsville.
TENNESSEE.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
BIEBER, ---- I 15th Infantry
BURG, FELIX I 15th Infantry
COOK, JOEL K 63d Infantry
Captured; died and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, New York.
DAHLSHEIMER, M. Corporal I 15th Infantry
DANHEISER, CHARLES I 15th Infantry
FREED, JULIUS I 15th Infantry
Wounded at Perryville, Chickamauga, and Dallas.
FOLTZ, BENJAMIN 15th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
FOLTZ, LEON 15th Infantry
Lost a leg in battle.
FOLTZ, MOSES 15th Infantry
Lost a leg in battle.
FREEMAN, MAX 15th Infantry
Killed at Murfreesboro.
GUTMANN, EMANUEL A 3d Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, SIMON 1st Infantry
HOBER, G. Major 8th Infantry
Taken prisoner at Port Hudson.
HANSMAN, SAMUEL I 15th Infantry
HECHT, SAMUEL I 15th Infantry
JACOBY, EMIL G. 3d Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
KUHN, MAX 15th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
LIEBSCHUTZ, JACOB 8th Infantry
Killed at Resaca.
LIEBSCHUTZ, JOSEPH 8th Infantry
Killed at Franklin, Tennessee.
LANG, ---- I 15th Infantry
LENBRIL, L. I 15th Infantry
LOEB, JACOB I 15th Infantry
MINKUS, J. 1st Infantry
MARTIN, MORDECAI I 15th Infantry
NASSAUER, LOUIS 1st Infantry
NATHAN, JULIUS Sergeant I 15th Infantry
Promoted.
PARAIRE, ISAAC 1st Infantry
SCHIFFMAN, SIMON 3d Infantry
SANDERS, MARK 4th Infantry
SEELIG, SIMON 4th Infantry
STRAUS, S. Lieutenant I 15th Infantry
SEESEL, HENRY, JR. I 15th Infantry
SIMONSON, ---- I 15th Infantry
Killed at Shiloh.
WRONKER, MORRIS 4th Infantry
WOLF, FREDERICK Corporal I 15th Infantry
WASSEMAN, CHARLES I 15th Infantry
WACHENHEIM, S. 40th Infantry
ZUCKER, SIMON K 10th Cavalry
TEXAS.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ALEXANDER, A. S. Captain 1st Infantry
Commander Oswald's Battalion; served until close of war.
ANGEL, A. A 5th Infantry
Killed at Manassas.
AUERBACH, DOCTOR J. A 5th Infantry
AUERBACH, E. B 5th Infantry
Killed at Wilderness.
ASH, HENRY C 5th Infantry
BENEDICT, JACOB F 1st Infantry
Killed at Malvern Hill.
BACHARACH, WOLF A 5th Infantry
BILLIG, ISAAC A 5th Infantry
BUCK, ROBERT 1st Artillery
COHEN, HENRY L 1st Infantry
CRAMER, JOSEPH 1st Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg; served until close of war.
COBMAN, LOUIS A 5th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
COHEN, S. A 5th Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
COLEMAN, LOUIS A 5th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
CRAMER, A. Lieutenant B 8th Infantry
(Flourney's Regiment)
COLEMAN, MEYER A 26th Infantry
DREYFUS, SAMUEL B 1st Infantry
DEUTSCH, SOLOMON 1st Infantry
Wounded; served until close of war.
DAVIDBURG, DAVID D. B 6th Infantry
DAVIDSON, DAVID H. B 6th Infantry
DEUTSCH, S. C 6th Infantry
DANIELS, J. C 8th Infantry
DAVIDSON, HENRY A 26th Infantry
DREYFUS, CHARLES A 26th Infantry
DANNENBAUM, JOSEPH C Cook Regiment
ELSASSER, I. A 5th Infantry
FRANK, J. W. L 1st Infantry
Enlisted 1861; killed at Sharpsburg.
FRANK, L. B Elmore's Infantry
FRIEDBURGER, G. 9th Cavalry
Killed at Corinth.
FRIEDLANDER, N. A 26th Cavalry
FRIEDBERGER, GABRIEL Terry's Cavalry
FRIEDBERGER, SAMUEL Terry's Cavalry
FISCHEL, LEON Wirt Adams Cavalry
FOX, ALLEN C Heavy Artillery
FOX, A. B Waul's Legion
GLASER, WOLF 1st Infantry
GOLDSTICKER, J. A 4th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg.
GOETZ, JULIUS A 14th Infantry
Wounded and taken prisoner.
GANS, SAMUEL 26th Cavalry
Wounded at Cane River.
GANS, LEON A Parson's Cavalry
HINES, A. B 4th Infantry
Lost an arm at Gaines' Mills; wounded at New Hope
Church.
HIEF, CHARLES B 6th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; captured.
HELLER, LOUIS 6th Infantry
HOLDSTEIN, ISIDORE A 8th Infantry
HIRSCHBERG, J. A 26th Cavalry
HYAMS, S. A 26th Cavalry
HARBY, HENRY J. C 26th Cavalry
Enlisted at the age of sixteen years; served until close
of war.
HIRSCHFIELD, H. Parson's Brigade
JACOBY, MAX A 1st Infantry
Lost right leg at Gaines' farm.
KAUFMAN, EDWARD 1st Infantry
KEMPER, H. 1st Infantry
KELLER, THEODORE Colonel 2nd Infantry
Promoted; wounded at Corinth.
KLOPMAN, L. A 8th Infantry
Killed at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas.
KOHLMAN, M. A 26th Cavalry
LEAVE, R. B. B 1st Infantry
Wounded at Malvern Hill.
LAZARUS, S. S. L 1st Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga.
LAZARUS, B. E 4th Infantry
LEVY, ROBERT A 5th Infantry
LEWIS, ISAAC C 5th Infantry
LACHMAN, E. D 5th Infantry
Wounded at Manassas.
LASKER, M. 2nd Cavalry
LEOPOLD, W. 1st Heavy Artillery
LEVY, ISAAC B Light Artillery
LEVISON, A. B Waul's Legion
LEVISON, PAUL B Waul's Legion
MORRIS, LEHMAN Sergeant D 1st Infantry
Killed at Gettysburg.
MAAS, LOUIS D 5th Infantry
Killed at Manassas.
MICHEL, HENRY 15th Infantry
MELASKI, J. A 26th Cavalry
MEYER, JOSEPH C Heavy Artillery
OPPENHEIMER, J. B 2nd Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, A. 22nd Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, BENJAMIN 22nd Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, S. 22nd Infantry
OPPENHEIMER, D. Captain 3d Cavalry
PICKARD, H. H 5th Infantry
PEPPER, L. S. A 8th Infantry
PEPPER, SAMUEL A 8th Infantry
POHALSKI, G. D. G 11th Infantry
Served throughout the war.
POHALSKI, P. G 11th Infantry
Served until the close of the war.
ROSENFIELD, ALEXANDER A 26th Cavalry
ROSENFIELD, HENRY A 26th Cavalry
ROSENFIELD, MICHAEL A 26th Cavalry
RICH, LOUIS M. C Cook's Cavalry
SHOWLSKI, CHARLES E 5th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
SAMUSH, J. A 8th Infantry
Wounded at Sabine River.
SIEGEL, JOSEPH 8th Infantry
SILBERBERG, GEORGE B 9th Infantry
Served four years.
SAMPSON, EDWARD J. 10th Infantry
Killed at Hanover Court House; buried in Jewish
cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
SOLOMON, JOSEPH A. G 11th Infantry
STEIN, ISAAC Colonel Marshall's Regiment
Lost his right arm at second battle of Manassas.
STEINER, VICTOR Texas Rangers
SEELIGSON, HENRY Lieutenant Cavalry
[_See record in Mexican War Lists._]
TEAH, ABRAHAM 8th Infantry
Promoted to Corporal, Sergeant-Major, and Aide-de-camp
to Colonel Overton Young, commanding 1st
Brigade, Walker's Division.
TEAH, ABRAHAM 22nd Infantry
WALKER, A. K 1st Infantry
WOLF, SIMON F 4th Infantry
Killed at Manassas.
WOLF, A. A 5th Infantry
Wounded at Seven Pines.
WOLF, A. F. A 5th Infantry
Killed at Sharpsburg.
WOLF, BENJAMIN A 5th Infantry
WETMORE, JAMES C 8th Infantry
WEIS, ALBERT 2nd Cavalry
WEIS, LEOPOLD 2nd Cavalry
WIENER, SOLOMON Terry's Scouts
VERMONT.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
SELIGSON, H. A. Colonel ----
VIRGINIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ADLER, HENRY { E 1st Infantry
{ 14th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; killed at Roanoke Island; buried in
Jewish Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
ABRAMS, ISAAC G 1st Infantry
ARCHER, LEWIS H 1st Infantry
Enlisted 1861; honorably discharged on account of
wound.
ANGLE, MEYER D 12th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; captured at Sailors' Creek.
ANGLE, M. E 46th Infantry
ANGLE, BUCK 46th Infantry
ANGLE, JOSEPH 59th Infantry
ADLER, A. A 1st Artillery
BEAR, ALEXANDER Lieutenant D 4th Infantry
Subsequently Surgeon.
BACHARACH, M. ----
Killed before Richmond; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
BACARACH, S. ----
Killed before Richmond; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
BAACH, SIEGMUND Longstreet's Corps
Captured by Union troops.
BAACH, SELIGMAN Longstreet's Corps
Captured.
BAACH, SOLOMON H. Longstreet's Corps
Killed in battle at Salem Church, near Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
BERNHEIM, SAMUEL Sergeant-Major City Battalion
BARNETT, B. J. Engineer Corps
COHEN, JACOB B 12th Infantry
COHEN, DAVID Richmond Hussars
COHEN, MORRIS Richmond Hussars
DAVIS, BENJAMIN B 6th Infantry
Killed before Richmond; Buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
DANIEL, JOSEPH B 12th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg; served until surrender.
DEGEN, SAMUEL A 19th Infantry
DREYFUS, LEON A 10th Cavalry
DAVIS, ANSLEY S. Reserves
DEICHS, WILLIAM Norfolk Blues
Detailed on special service.
EZEKIEL, E. M. { A 1st Infantry
{ A 46th Infantry
Served until the close of the war.
EZEKIEL, JOSEPH K. B 46th Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
EISEMAN, LOUIS Wise's Brigade
EZEKIEL, JACOB 1st Militia
EZEKIEL, MOSES J. Lieutenant Cadets Virginia Institute
Promoted from Private.
FRANKENTHAL, SIMON B 46th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; honorably discharged for disability on
account of wounds.
FRIEDENWALD, ISAAC A 53d Infantry
FRIEDLAND, A. Richmond Light Blues
GOLDSTEIN, BERNARD E 46th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; disabled by wounds; honorably discharged.
GUGGENHEIM, SIMON E 46th Infantry
GUNST, MICHAEL E 46th Infantry
GOLDSTEIN, J. 46th Infantry
GUNST, HENRY ---- Cavalry
GERSBERG, HENRY ----
Killed June 2nd, 1864; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
HIRSCHBERG, JOSEPH A 1st Infantry
HUTZLER, SIEGMUND L. A 1st Infantry
HEXTER, SIMON { E 1st Infantry
{ A 46th Infantry
HESSBURG, JULIUS 3d Infantry
Killed at Gaines' Mills; buried at Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
HEILBRONER, HENRY H 27th Infantry
Wounded at Port Republic.
HESSER, S. E 46th Infantry
HIRSCH, HERMAN A 1st Cavalry
Enlisted 1861; assigned to 12th Infantry.
HESSBURG, M. ---- Cavalry
HARRIS, MOSES Richmond Hussars
ISAACS, ABRAHAM E 46th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; wounded at Petersburg; served through
the war.
KUH, E. S. H 8th Infantry
KULL, M. E. A 12th Infantry
KAYTON, N. N. E 46th Infantry
KEYTON, LOUIS E 46th Infantry
KADDEN, A. A 10th Cavalry
KALTEN, AARON Wise's Brigade
LICHTENSTEIN, ISIDORE H 1st Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, WILLIAM { 1st Infantry
{ 46th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; detailed to Medical Department; a
member of the State Legislature, November, 1892.
LEVY, LEWIS A 12th Infantry
LOWENSTEIN, ISIDORE A 12th Infantry
Wounded at Malvern Hill.
LORSCH, HENRY A 19th Infantry
Seriously wounded at Seven Pines.
LEVY, EZEKIEL J. Captain E 46th Infantry
Promoted for gallantry; served four years.
LEVY, ISAAC J. E 46th Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
LEVY, ALEXANDER H. E 46th Infantry
Served four years.
LEVY, JOSEPH E 46th Infantry
Enlisted 1861; wounded at Petersburg, and disabled.
LEVY, EMANUEL G. E 46th Infantry
LYON, THOMAS 46th Infantry
LEVY, LEOPOLD } { G 1st Cavalry
LEVY, SAMPSON } (Three brothers) { G 1st Cavalry
LEVY, SOLOMON } { 23d Infantry
Died of wounds. } {
LICHTENSTEIN, K. 19th Reserves
LEVY, E. Captain Richmond Blues
LOWENSTEIN, I. Richmond Grays
LITERMAN, SIMEON Young's Battery
MYERS, WILLIAM A 1st Infantry
MYERS, MARKS 12th Infantry
Killed at Manassas.
MYER, MAX B 12th Infantry
Disabled in action.
MIDDLEDORFER, CHARLES E 12th Infantry
MYERS, A. 17th Infantry
MYERS, SOLOMON 18th Infantry
MOSES, J. C. E 46th Infantry
Seriously wounded.
MYERS, C. E 46th Infantry
Disabled in service.
MYERS, LEWIS 46th Infantry
MYERS, HERMAN 1st Cavalry
MYERS, BENJAMIN C Wise's Brigade
MIDDLEDORFER, MAX Fayette Artillery
NEWMAN, JOSEPH K 20th Infantry
Captured; died of wounds; buried in Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, New York.
NEWMAN, ISAAC 46th Infantry
NEWMAN, JACOB 59th Infantry
OBERMAYER, H. 2nd Infantry
OETHENGER, DAVID B 18th Infantry
OBERNDORFER, B. Young's Battery
PYLE, HARDY G 1st Infantry
PLAUT, HUGO 46th Infantry
ROSENBERG, M. G 6th Infantry
Specially detailed at Richmond.
ROSENFELD, SIMON A 12th Infantry
REINACH, A. S. B 12th Infantry
REINACH, ISADORE B 12th Infantry
ROSENHEIM, HENRY E 46th Infantry
ROSENBERG, MICHAEL Norfolk Blues Infantry
REINACH, MORRIS Petersburg Grays
SELDNER, ISAAC Lieutenant 6th Infantry
Promoted from Private for bravery; killed at Chancellorsville,
May 3, 1863; buried in Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
SCHWARTZ, ---- 17th Infantry
SEMON, JACOB S. E 46th Infantry
SCHOENTHAL, JOSEPH E 46th Infantry
SON, JACOB E 46th Infantry
STRAUSS, DAVID 7th Cavalry
SIMON, ISAAC Richmond Hussars
SIMON, NATHAN Richmond Hussars
SMITH, HENRY Otoy's Battery
Killed in first battle.
SELIGMAN, H. Petersburg Grays
TRIESDORFER, G. B 14th Infantry
TUCKER, ---- 10th Cavalry
UNSTADTER, M. A 6th Infantry
Wounded at Gaines' Mills; discharged for being disabled
for service.
WHITLOCK, P. A 12th Infantry
Discharged for being disabled for service.
WILZINSKY, LEWIS H 12th Infantry
WOLFF, W. M. Lieutenant 25th Infantry
(Hagood's Brigade)
Killed before Richmond; buried in Jewish Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia.
WASSEMAN, LEVY E 46th Infantry
Wounded and captured at Roanoke; when discharged
served on hospital duty.
WAMBACH, LEOPOLD Norfolk Blues Infantry
Killed at Vicksburg.
WHITEHEAD, HENRY Wise's Brigade
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
STEINBERGER, JUSTUS Major ----
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General, Major and
Paymaster.
WEST VIRGINIA.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
EDDELMAN, G. H. K 6th Infantry
HEIDELSHEIMER, W. H. Lieutenant G 7th Infantry
KRAUS, SAMUEL Captain B 7th Infantry
Promoted from the ranks.
MAYER, DANIEL Captain 5th Infantry
The following letter is of interest:
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING, May 30th, 1866.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.
DOCTOR DANIEL MAYER, Charleston, W. Va.
SIR:
I am directed by his Excellency, the Governor, to present to you
the enclosed medal in accordance with a joint resolution of the
Legislature of the State of West Virginia, adopted February 1st,
1866, as a slight testimonial of the high appreciation by the State
of your devotion, patriotism and services in suppression of the
late rebellion.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. H. DUVAL,
Adjutant-General.
RAUSCH, C. M. 11th Infantry
ROSE, ABRAHAM A 1st Light Artillery
STEINACHER, WILSON { 2nd Infantry
{ 5th Cavalry
Wounded.
WISCONSIN.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
ABRAHAMSON, MARTIN B 1st Infantry
ASH, REUBEN, 1st Lieutenant E 2nd Infantry
Enlisted as Corporal; wounded at Bull Run; captured
at Gettysburg.
AUERBACH, GUSTAV F 3d Infantry
ABRAHAMSON, MARTIN { H 3d Infantry
{ 21st Infantry
Served four years.
ABRAHAM, AUGUST A 6th Infantry
ARNSTEIN, EMIL F 6th Infantry
AARON, JACOB C 8th Infantry
ABRAHAMSON, JACOB I 13th Infantry
ABRAHAMSON, JACOB A 15th Infantry
ALEXANDER, JACOB F 16th Infantry
AARON, MICHAEL K 20th Infantry
Wounded at Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
ABRAHAMSON, JOHN E 21st Infantry
Served three years.
ALEXANDER, LEVI Corporal G 43d Infantry
ADLER, FREDERICK G 45th Infantry
ABEL, HERMAN A 48th Infantry
ADLER, MAX 2nd Battery
BLUM, FERDINAND E 1st Infantry
BEAR, ISAAC C 3d Infantry
BIRNBAUM, CHARLES I 6th Infantry
Killed at Gainesville, Virginia.
BERNHARD, JULIUS B 7th Infantry
BAUM, CHARLES F. E 8th Infantry
Wounded in action.
BAHR, JULIUS H 8th Infantry
BLUM, JACOB G 9th Infantry
BENJAMIN, CYRUS H 11th Infantry
BENJAMIN, SAMUEL I 11th Infantry
Wounded; served four years.
BAER, AARON A 14th Infantry
BENJAMIN, EPHRAIM D 16th Infantry
(reorganized)
BEHREND, JOSEPH C 17th Infantry
BAER, HERMAN D 17th Infantry
BLUM, FERDINAND B 21st Infantry
Wounded in action.
BAUM, DANIEL I 22nd Infantry
BEHRENS, S. BEHREND H 26th Infantry
BLUM, JACOB I 26th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded in action.
BAUMGARTEN, HENRY K 26th Infantry
Captured.
BLUM, SAMUEL D 27th Infantry
BLUM, CHARLES G 28th Infantry
Served three years.
BENJAMIN, EPHRAIM G 32nd Infantry
BLUMENSTEIN, CHARLES F. Lieutenant E 34th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
BERNHARD, MAX G 35th Infantry
BERNHARD, CARL G 35th Infantry
BACHMAN, JACOB I 42nd Infantry
BAUM, JULIUS G 44th Infantry
BAUM, JACOB D 45th Infantry
BAHRENT, JOSEPH 45th Infantry
BAUM, OSCAR D 48th Infantry
BENJAMIN, ISAAC C 51st Infantry
BAUM, JULIUS M 1st Cavalry
Captured.
BAMBERG, CARL Milwaukee Cavalry
BEHREND, GUSTAV C 1st Heavy Artillery
BENJAMIN, DANA Corporal 9th Battery
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
COHEN, WILLIAM D 49th Infantry
DAVISON, NATHAN S. 1st Lieutenant B 37th Infantry
Promoted from Sergeant, 20th; wounded at Petersburg
and at Weldon Railroad.
DAVIS, ISAAC H 38th Infantry
DAVIS, LEVI F 40th Infantry
DAVIS, ISAAC H 43d Infantry
Died in the service.
DAVISON, JOSEPH E 44th Infantry
DANIELSON, JACOB A 48th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID A. K 49th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID G 50th Infantry
DAVIS, DAVID F 51st Infantry
DAVIS, LEVY P. E 52nd Infantry
DAVID, ALEXANDER Captain B 3d Cavalry
ERDMAN, HERMAN Commissary-Sergeant 9th Infantry
Enlisted as Private. (reorganized)
ERDMAN, GOTTLIEB C 14th Infantry
Wounded at Spanish Fort.
ERDMAN, THEODORE C 14th Infantry
EISEMAN, JACOB E 25th Infantry
Wounded at Decatur, Georgia.
ERDMAN, HENRY Sergeant C 26th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; wounded at Bentonville, N. C.;
served three years.
ESSLINGER, EMANUEL Corporal K 33d Infantry
Served three years.
ESSLINGER, SAMUEL K 33d Infantry
Served three years.
ERDMAN, GOTTLIEB Sergeant E 34th Infantry
FALKENSTEIN, CHARLES H 1st Infantry
FREUND, JOSEPH F 6th Infantry
FRANK, SALOMON S. C 11th Infantry
FRANK, SIMON C 16th Infantry
FALK, JACOB 17th Infantry
Died in the service.
FRANK, JOSEPH S. F 18th Infantry
Captured.
FLESH, MOSES I 23d Infantry
Wounded at Vicksburg and at Carrion Crow Bayou.
FROHLICH, JULIUS Corporal B 26th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
FELDMAN, PHILIP I 26th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Gettysburg.
FRANKE, HERMAN E 34th Infantry
FRIEDLAND, FREDERICK D 2nd Cavalry
FRIEBERG, HEINRICH H 2nd Cavalry
FURST, LUDWIG H 2nd Cavalry
FALKENBURG, ELIAS Sergeant M 2nd Cavalry
FRANK, OSCAR E 4th Cavalry
FRANK, GUSTAV 8th Battery
Veteran; served four years.
GANS, ADAM H 6th Infantry
GANS, ISAAC K 22d Infantry
Captured.
GRUNEWALD, HEINRICH F 34th Infantry
GOODMAN, JOSEPH I 45th Infantry
GANS, ARNOLD K 58th Infantry
Died in the service.
HORWITZ, PHILIP Lieutenant H 1st Infantry
HART, BENJAMIN D 2nd Infantry
HESS, DAVID B 3d Infantry
HERRMAN, GOTTLIEB A 5th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg and at Fredericksburg.
HAAS, JACOB A 9th Infantry
Served three years.
HEINEMAN, FREDERICK B 9th Infantry
Served three years.
HERRMAN, ALBERT C 9th Infantry
HESS, ADOLPH I 9th Infantry
Wounded in action.
HIRSCH, JOHN 9th Infantry
HARRIS, ISAAC B 10th Infantry
HERRMANSON, HERMAN K 10th Infantry
HARRIS, SIMON D 11th Infantry
HARRIS, JOEL H 11th Infantry
HERRMANN, JACOB 14th Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, FERDINAND C 16th Infantry
HIRSCH, WILLIAM F 19th Infantry
HERRMAN, HENRY H 19th Infantry
HERZBERG, AUGUST H 20th Infantry
Died in the service.
HERRMANSON, HERMAN D 21st Infantry
HEINBERG, LOUIS I 23d Infantry
Served three years.
HAHN, HERMAN I 24th Infantry
HORWITZ, PHILIP Major 26th Infantry
HÜBSCHMAN, FRANCIS Surgeon 26th Infantry
HERRMAN, HERMAN 26th Infantry
Died of wounds at Chancellorsville.
HIRSCH, FREDERICK I 26th Infantry
Captured.
HEINEMAN, JOSEPH E 27th Infantry
Died in the service.
HART, LEVI F 27th Infantry
Died in the service.
HART, BENJAMIN K 29th Infantry
Died in the service.
HART, DANIEL Sergeant A 32nd Infantry
Enlisted as private.
HART, BENJAMIN A 32nd Infantry
HERRMAN, JACOB D 32nd Infantry
HEINEMAN, JOSEPH C 33d Infantry
Died in the service.
HEINEMAN, AUGUST I 37th Infantry
HARRIS, ERWIN W. F 39th Infantry
HIRSCHMAN, DAVID Captain G 44th Infantry
HUEBSCH, JOSEPH C 45th Infantry
HAAS, JACOB I 46th Infantry
HERRMAN, LEOPOLD D 48th Infantry
HART, FRANK J. A 1st Cavalry
Died in the service.
HARRIS, SIMON F 2nd Cavalry
HERZFELD, JOHN G 2nd Cavalry
Served three years.
HEINEMAN, JOSEPH H 2nd Cavalry
HEYMAN, WILLIAM D 2nd Cavalry
Served three years.
HERZBERG, ERNEST F. Captain 2nd Battery
HESS, HENRY E. 3d Battery
Captured; died in the service.
HOFMAN, JOSEPH 5th Battery
Served four years.
ISRAEL, ABRAHAMS Sergeant A 14th Infantry
Enlisted as private; Veteran; served four years.
ISAACSON, ISAAC D 15th Infantry
ISRAELSON, J. G. K 50th Infantry
ISAACSON, LEWIS C. 4th Battery
Killed at Darby Road, Virginia.
JACOBY, ADOLPH H 9th Infantry
JACOBSON, JACOB B 15th Infantry
Wounded at Chickamauga.
JACOBSON, SALOMON C 15th Infantry
Served four years.
JACOBSON, JACOB L. D 15th Infantry
Wounded at Hope Church.
JACOBS, JUSTIN C 16th Infantry
In Veteran Reserve Corps; served four years.
JACOBSON, MARTIN F 18th Infantry
JONAS, ELIAS C 19th Infantry
JACOBSON, JOHN B 22nd Infantry
Killed at Peach Tree Creek.
JOACHIMSTHAL, JOSEPH F 26th Infantry
Wounded at Chancellorsville; served three years.
JACOBSON, JACOB I 27th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBSON, JULIUS C 28th Infantry
Served three years.
JACOBS, LYMAN C. 2nd Lieutenant B 36th Infantry
Promoted from Corporal.
JACOBY, FREDERICK B 45th Infantry
JACOBSON, ADOLPH 2nd Cavalry
JACOBSON, DAVID B 4th Cavalry
JACOBSON, JACOB G 4th Cavalry
KLAUBER, CHARLES K 1st Infantry
KOHN, JACOB 5th Infantry
(reorganized)
KOHN, JULIUS D 9th Infantry
KAUFFMAN, BENJAMIN E 12th Infantry
KAUFMAN, JOSEPH B 18th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ELI M. I 20th Infantry
KAUFMAN, BENJAMIN F 25th Infantry
KOHN, MARTIN Corporal H 26th Infantry
Wounded at Resaca, Georgia.
KAUFMAN, JOSEPH L. H 33d Infantry
KAUFMAN, MICHAEL I 43d Infantry
KAISER, FELIX D 44th Infantry
KOHN, RUDOLPH A 45th Infantry
KAUFMAN, FREDERICK G 45th Infantry
KAUFMAN, ELI H 50th Infantry
KAHNS, FREDERICK C 1st Cavalry
KOHN, FREDERICK C 1st Cavalry
KAUFMAN, JULIUS H 2nd Cavalry
Died in the service.
KLEIN, ADOLPH L 3d Cavalry
KOHN, FRANZ 2nd Battery
KAUFMAN, JACOB A. Permanent Guard
LOWENSTEIN, CHARLES D 1st Infantry
LIEBENSTEIN, WILLIAM B 3d Infantry
LISNER, HENRY F 5th Infantry
Killed at Petersburg.
LOEBE, MICHAEL C 6th Infantry
LIEBMAN, LOUIS I 7th Infantry
Wounded at Hatchers' Run.
LEVY, THEODORE 10th Infantry
LEVI, ISIDORE I 14th Infantry
LEVISON, ISAAC E 18th Infantry
Died in the service.
LEWISON, LEWIS E 22nd Infantry
LYON, BENJAMIN A 23d Infantry
Died in the service.
LYONS, MOSES J. G 24th Infantry
LIEBENSTEIN, PHILIP B 26th Infantry
LIEBENSTEIN, W. B 26th Infantry
LIPPMAN, HENRY Commissary F 26th Infantry
Sergeant
Died of wounds.
LOEB, HENRY C 35th Infantry
LOEB, LEWIS E 36th Infantry
LANGSTAAT, GOTFRIED 1st Lieutenant H 2nd Cavalry
Re-enlisted as Veteran; promoted from Sergeant;
served four years.
LIVERMORE, JOSEPH L. L 2nd Cavalry
Wounded and captured.
LICHTENBERG, FREDERICK Corporal M 3d Cavalry
Served three years.
LOEB, ISAAC C 4th Cavalry
Died in the service.
MARK, FREDERICK C 1st Infantry
MARKS, JACOB H 1st Infantry
METZLER, JACOB K 2nd Infantry
Wounded and captured at Gainesville.
MOSES, EDGAR F 7th Infantry
Served four years.
MARX, JACOB H 9th Infantry
MARKS, JOSEPH B. G 10th Infantry
Died in the service.
MOSES, ALBERT H 10th Infantry
MAAS, MARTON B 11th Infantry
MEYER, SIMON I 11th Infantry
MEYER, BERNARD 2nd Lieutenant B 17th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
MEYER, EMANUEL B 17th Infantry
MAAS, FREDERICK C 17th Infantry
MAAS, WILLIAM D 17th Infantry
Wounded in action.
MARX, PHILIP E 18th Infantry
Captured.
MOSES, RICHARD C 21st Infantry
MOSES, JOHN C 21st Infantry
MARX, JACOB D 21st Infantry
MAYER, JOSEPH C 24th Infantry
MAYER, LOUIS Corporal C 24th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; killed at Resaca, Georgia.
MAYER, JACOB K 24th Infantry
MOSES, MARTIN E 25th Infantry
MANN, NATHAN G 25th Infantry
Died in the service.
METZEL, ALEXANDER Sergeant-Major B 26th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
MEYER, LEOPOLD C 26th Infantry
Served three years.
MANGOLD, NATHAN K 26th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
MANDEL, THEODORE D 27th Infantry
Served three years.
MANDEL, HEINRICH D 27th Infantry
Wounded; captured; died as prisoner.
MANDEL, FREDERICK D 27th Infantry
Served three years.
MARX, HENRY P. C 33d Infantry
Served three years.
MAIER, JACOB K 48th Infantry
MAIER, HERMAN A 50th Infantry
MAAS, FRITZ K 51st Infantry
MOSES, ALFRED D 52nd Infantry
MARCUS, BERNARD A 1st Cavalry
MAYER, JOHN T. B 1st Cavalry
MARX, FREDERICK B 2nd Cavalry
Served three years.
MORITZ, OSCAR H 2nd Cavalry
MARKS, THEODORE A 3d Cavalry
MOSES, REUEL E. C 4th Cavalry
MARKS, HENRY 2nd Lieutenant 12th Battery
Enlisted as private; served three years.
MAYERS, JACOB 13th Battery
MAIER, DAVID C 1st Heavy Artillery
MANN, JACOB C 1st Heavy Artillery
NAUMAN, MORITZ Corporal E 9th Infantry
Captured; served three years.
NAUMAN, FREDERICK E 9th Infantry
Served three years.
NEWMAN, CARL B 17th Infantry
NATHAN, DANIEL I 24th Infantry
NEWSTADFOR, NATHAN H 24th Infantry
Killed at Chickamauga, Georgia.
NUSSBAUM, GEORGE C 33d Infantry
Served three years.
NATHAN, ADOLPH A 41st Infantry
NEWBAUM, MICHAEL G 44th Infantry
NUSSBAUM, DANIEL D 51st Infantry
NEUBERG, JACOB H 2nd Cavalry
Died in the service.
PERLEWITZ, HERMAN H 1st Infantry
PERLEWITZ, H. Sergeant A 26th Infantry
POLASHAK, ADOLPH H 26th Infantry
POLLACK, FREDERICK J. B 3d Cavalry
Died in the service.
RICE, MORRIS S. C 1st Infantry
RICHTENSTEIN, JULIUS Corporal C 1st Infantry
Entered as Private.
ROSE, ALEXANDER 5th Infantry
ROTHSCHILD, MAX 5th Infantry
ROSENBERG, HENRY D 6th Infantry
RICE, JACOB C 7th Infantry
Captured; died at Andersonville.
ROSENBACH, CHARLES F 8th Infantry
Veteran; served four years.
ROSENTHAL, RUDOLPH B 9th Infantry
(reorganized)
ROTHSCHILD, WILLIAM F 10th Infantry
ROSENAU, CHARLES B. F 21st Infantry
ROSENBAUM, ARNOLD C 24th Infantry
Died of wounds received at Kenesaw Mountain.
ROSENTHAL, HENRY D 26th Infantry
Wounded at Gettysburg.
ROSENTHAL, WILLIAM E 26th Infantry
Wounded in action.
ROSENTHAL, EUGENE K 31st Infantry
ROSENAU, CHARLES A 35th Infantry
Died in the service.
ROSENBERG, JAMES C 36th Infantry
ROSENBERG, FREDERICK Corporal C 45th Infantry
ROSENFELD, LEOPOLD Corporal D 48th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, AUGUST E 48th Infantry
ROSENTHAL, WILLIAM F 50th Infantry
ROSENHEIM, MAX H 2nd Cavalry
Wounded at Grand Gulf, Missouri.
RICE, SIMON 1st Battery
RICE, NATHAN P. 5th Battery
Veteran; served four years.
ROSE, MOSES 6th Battery
RICE, NATHAN B. 12th Battery
STEINER, HENRY D 1st Infantry
STEINER, FREDERICK D 1st Infantry
STEINBERGER, JACOB E 1st Infantry
SAMPSON, SAMUEL I 2nd Infantry
Captured.
SCHWAB, SIMON I 3d Infantry
SAMUELS, ALEXANDER D 3d Infantry
Commissary-
Sergeant
Enlisted as Private.
SAMUELS, ALEXANDER Quartermaster 5th Infantry
(reorganized)
SCHOENFELD, JOSEPH A 5th Infantry
SAMUELS, DAVID D 5th Infantry
SCHONEMAN, AUGUST Corporal D 9th Infantry
Enlisted as Private; served three years.
SOLOMON, JAMES F. E 12th Infantry
SELIGMAN, LOUIS { K 13th Infantry
{ 24th Infantry
SAMPSON, SAMUEL A 15th Infantry
Died in the service.
SOLOMON, EDWIN A. D 16th Infantry
STEINMAN, JACOB E 16th Infantry
Captured.
SIMON, JACOB C 17th Infantry
SOLOMON, JAMES C 17th Infantry
STEIN, SAMUEL K 17th Infantry
Died in the service.
SOLOMON, G. W. E 19th Infantry
SAMSON, JOEL J. E 21st Infantry
SEMISCH, JULIUS A 26th Infantry
STEIN, JULIUS C 26th Infantry
Killed at Chancellorsville.
SOLOMON, LEVI H. A 29th Infantry
SAMPSON, REUBEN 33d Infantry
STERN, WILLIAM F 33d Infantry
Served three years.
STERN, CHARLES F 33d Infantry
Wounded; captured; died of wounds.
SELIG, LUDWIG 45th Infantry
SCHOENEMAN, DAVID F 49th Infantry
SACHS, LEWIS 49th Infantry
SALMON, JOSEPH H 1st Cavalry
Captured.
SEIDENBURG, HENRY D 1st Cavalry
SACHS, LOUIS H 2nd Cavalry
Served three years.
SCHLESINGER, WILLIAM M 3d Cavalry
SACHS, WILLIAM G. A 4th Cavalry
STEINMAN, WILLIAM A 1st Heavy Artillery
SIMON, CHARLES K 1st Heavy Artillery
SACHS, SAMUEL 9th Battery
Served four years.
VOGEL, CARL I 34th Infantry
VOGEL, JULIUS Sergeant K 45th Infantry
WISE, SOLOMON K 1st Infantry
WOLF, VICTOR Captain C 8th Infantry
Promoted from Lieutenant.
WEISS, JACOB G 10th Infantry
Served three years.
WOLF, JACOB B 11th Infantry
WOLF, ABRAHAM G 11th Infantry
WOLF, FRANK Sergeant D 12th Infantry
Enlisted as Private.
WETZEL, ALEXANDER Major B 26th Infantry
Enlisted as a Private in the 20th Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted
to Corporal, Sergeant and Major for bravery at Chancellorsville;
he was mortally wounded at Gettysburg.
WOLF, ALBERT G 26th Infantry
Died of wounds.
WOLF, ABRAHAM I 38th Infantry
Leg amputated.
WENK, THEODORE H 45th Infantry
WOLF, SAMUEL A 51st Infantry
WOLF, ADAM A 51st Infantry
WOLF, JACOB C 51st Infantry
WYOMING TERRITORY.
NAME. RANK. COMPANY. REGIMENT.
JUDELL, H. D 1st Infantry
SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR UNCLASSIFIED AS TO COMMANDS.
Absent from their respective places in the foregoing rolls are the
names of a large number of men whose participation in the Civil
Conflict is found of record, but of whom the connection with their
respective commands remains unnoted. These names are printed in the
following list--a supplement to the ample quota of Jewish soldiers who
did duty during the Civil War.
ALABAMA.
BRISK, ISAAC
ARKANSAS.
ADLER, BENJAMIN FEIST, MARCUS
FEIST, SAMUEL
GEORGIA.
ALEXANDER, JOSEPH HILZHEIM, ALEXANDER
BREN, ROBERT Killed at Missionary Ridge.
BRAND, HERMAN KRAUS, WILLIAM
BUSH, GEORGE LEVY, ALBERT
Killed in action. LEVY, ABRAHAM
BLANKENSEE, J. LEVY, W. E.
Killed in action. Killed in action.
COHEN, ISAAC G. MOISE, E. W.
COHEN, ISAAC S. MARCUS, M.
COHEN, M. MINIS, P. H.
COHEN, M. S. MAGNUS, ----
FRANK, ISAAC ROSE, GEORGE
GOODMAN, A. RUSSEL, W.
HEYMAN, A. SOLOMON, W. C.
SOLOMONS, L. WEISS, H.
WEIL, E. A. WEISS, L.
WEIL, HENRY Died of wounds; buried at
WEISS, S. Richmond.
Buried at Richmond. WEISS, HENRY W.
ILLINOIS.
CAHN, AL. JONES, LEVI
CASS, ---- JONES, HENRY
FRÜHLING, ---- KING, ASA
HIRSCH, WOLF KARLENBACH, MORRIS
HECHT, ---- KAHN, S.
HELDMAN, MORITZ LEDERMAN, MOSES
HEFLER, ---- LEDERMAN, DAVID
KLEIN, ---- LIPPOLD, JULIUS
KAHN, S. LESTER, JOSEPH
JONES, BENJAMIN LEDERMAN, DANIEL
JONES, DAVID LEDERMAN, SOLOMON
JONES, ABRAHAM LESTER, MARCUS
JONES, ADOLPH LIPPOLD, GOTTLIEB
JONES, ISAAC LESTER, SIMON
JONES, JOSEPH LILIENFIELD, ----
JACOBS, BERNARD LEDERMAN, JOSEPH
JONES, MOSES LESTER, ISAAC
JONES, SOLOMON MENKE, HERMAN
MENKE, HENRY
INDIANA.
ABRAHAMS, J. DAVIS, MOSES
ANCHUTZ, G. DAVIS, ABRAHAM
ANSPACH, NOAH FRANK, GOTTLIEB
ACKERMAN, FRANK FRIEDMAN, FRANK
BALL, LEVI FREEMAN, NATHAN
DAVIDSON, ELIAS FRANK, DAVID
DAVIS, NATHAN FRANK, ISAAC
DAVIS, ISAAC GREEN, AARON
DAVIS, LEVI GREEN, JACOB
DAVIS, AARON GOODMAN, ISAAC
GREEN, HEYMAN ISRAEL, ELIJAH
HALLER, NATHAN ISAACS, M.
HALLER, JOSEPH JUDAH, ANDREW
HART, ISAAC JACOBS, ISAAC
HAMMERSLEY, MOSES JONES, ISRAEL
HAMMERSLEY, JACOB LEHMAN, B.
HALLER, DAVID LEHMAN, JACOB
HARRIS, LEVI POLLOCK, J.
HEINEMAN, CHARLES ROSENBERG, D.
ISRAEL, JOSEPH SANDERS, ISAAC
ISAACS, PHILIP SANDERS, SAMUEL
ISAACS, SIMPSON SANDERS, AARON
ISAACS, REUBEN WALLACH, B.
WISE, LOUIS
KANSAS.
DAVIS, ABRAHAM COHN, DAVID
FRANK, HARRY I.
KENTUCKY.
DAVIS, ISAAC MOSES, ABRAHAM
DAVID, ABRAHAM MAYER, JACOB
EHRLICH, MAYER MAYER, ISAAC
EHRLICH, WILLIAM WOLF, ABRAHAM
LOUISIANA.
AARON, ISAAC LEON, ALEXANDER
ARONSTEIN, MOSES LEVENSON, ----
BLUM, MOSES ROSENAU, HERMAN
BAER, HERMAN RIED, ----
COHEN, JOSEPH ROSENAU, SIEGMUND
KAUFMAN, MORRIS WOLF, ABRAHAM
MARYLAND.
KAUFMAN, ISAAC NEWGARTEN, HARRY
MOSES, JOSEPH WOLF, JACOB
MASSACHUSETTS.
ARNOLD, O. JACOBS, DANIEL
ACKERMAN, JOSEPH LEHMAN, FREDERICK
ARNOLD, ISAAC LEHMAN, DANIEL
ACKERMAN, DANIEL MEIER, JOSEPH
BENJAMIN, MARK MAIER, HERMAN
BENDER, JACOB MOSES, SAMUEL
BENJAMIN, SAMUEL MANN, BENJAMIN
BENJAMIN, JOSEPH MANN, ISAAC
COLEMAN, JOSEPH MANUEL, FRANK
COLEMAN, MOSES MEYERS, ISAAC
DANIELS, MARCUS MEYER, LUDWIG
DAVIS, MOSES MAYER, FREDERICK
DAVIS, LEVI NEWMAN, FRANK
FRIEDMAN, GOTTLIEB PHINNEY, ISAAC
FRANK, GUSTAV PHILLIPS, SAMUEL
FREEMAN, ABRAHAM RICE, MOSES
FREEMAN, NATHAN RICH, SAMUEL
GREEN, DAVID RICE, OSCAR
GOLDSMITH, JOSEPH RICE, JACOB
GREEN, LEVI SAMUEL, SOLOMON
GREEN, AARON SANDERS, LEWIS
HARRIS, ISAAC SIMONS, BENJAMIN
HARTMAN, MORITZ SANGER, DANIEL
HALLER, DAVID SANGER, THEODORE
JACOBS, JACOB SANDERS, NATHAN
JACOBS, DAVID WIESENBACH, GUSTAV
WISE, JOSEPH
MICHIGAN.
ACKERMAN, SAMUEL BENJAMIN, E.
ARNOLD, LEWIS COLEMAN, LEVI
ARNOLD, MARCUS COLEMAN, ISAAC
ACKERMAN, ABRAHAM COLEMAN, DAVID
ACKERMAN, JACOB DAVIS, OSCAR
BALL, DAVID DAVIS, DAVID
BENJAMIN, M. DAVIS, ISAAC
DAVIS, AARON JONES, HENRY
DAVIDSON, ISAAC JACOBS, LEWIS
FREEMAN, PHINEAS KAISER, JACOB
FUCHS, DAVID KING, AARON
FREEMAN, LEVI KING, JACOB
GREEN, ISAAC KARLENBACH, JOSEPH
GREEN, BENJAMIN KING, MARCUS
GREEN, NATHAN LEHMAN, GOTTLIEB
HART, ISAAC MEYERS, JOSEPH
HART, SAMUEL MYERS, DAVID
HARRIS, ISRAEL NEWMAN, MOSES
HARRIS, ABRAHAM NEWMAN, JOSEPH
JONES, JACOB PHILLIPS, J.
JONES, ABRAHAM ROSE, DAVID
JONES, DAVID RICH, LEVI
JONES, ISAAC SANDERS, J.
MISSISSIPPI.
LEVY, MEYER MORSE, CHARLES
Killed in action. ROSENAU, MARX
LICHTENSTEIN, S. WEIL, J.
Died of wounds.
MISSOURI.
ADLER, GEORGE DAVIS, EMMANUEL
ADOLPH, PHILIP GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS
ARNOLD, NATHAN GOTTSCHALK, FREDERIC
BAER, ISAAC GREEN, DAVID
BAER, WILLIAM GREEN, ADOLPH
BLOCK, DAVID HAMMER, ISAAC
BALL, LEON HARTMAN, JACOB
BAUM, LOUIS HOLZINGER, CHARLES
CLINE, CHARLES JACOBSON, A.
CLINE, HENRY JOEL, E.
CLIFMAN, ASA JOEL, BENJAMIN
DAVID, DANIEL JONES, ISAAC
DAVIDSON, ISAAC JONES, HENRY
DAVID, EPHRAIM LEHMAN, M.
LEIBOLD, GUSTAV REXINGER, MOSES
LEUPP, JACOB RIA, MORRIS
MEYERS, JOSEPH SEGAL, BENJAMIN
NEWMAN, G. TRIBURG, EUGENE
NOGEL, E. WOLF, CHARLES
WOLF, JOSEPH
NEW JERSEY.
ACKERMAN, JOSEPH DIAZ, HENRY
ALEXANDER, ADOLPH DAVIS, ISAAC C.
ABRAHAM, JACOB DAVISON, LEWIS
ACKERMAN, DAVID FREEMAN, MORRIS
ACKERMAN, AARON FREEMAN, ALEXANDER
ALEXANDER, CHARLES FREEMAN, AARON
ADLER, WILLIAM FREEMAN, SAMUEL
ADLER, HENRY FUCHS, JACOB
ARNOLD, JACOB FUCHS, MICHAEL
ACKERMAN, JOSEPH FRANKS, HENRY P.
ACKERMAN, MORRIS GREEN, AARON
ABRAMS, ELIAS GREEN, MOSES
ACKERMAN, AARON GEIGER, GEORGE
ACKERMAN, ABRAHAM GEISINGER, JACOB
ABRAMS, JACOB GEISINGER, ISAAC
ARNOLD, MICHAEL GEISINGER, FREDERICK
ABRAMS, CHARLES GOTTSCHALK, SAMUEL
BUXBAUM, WILLIAM GREEN, AARON S.
BAER, JOSEPH GEIGER, JACOB
BEHRENS, CHARLES GREEN, JOSEPH
BAUER, JOSEPH A. GOODMAN, MARCUS
BALL, ABRAHAM HARRIS, DAVID
BACHMAN, JACOB HARDENDORF, JACOB
BAUER, JACOB S. HARRIS, ISAAC
BRILL, JACOB HOLZMAN, GEORGE
BAUER, MORRIS HARRIS, DAVID
BACHMAN, WILLIAM H. HARRIS, BENJAMIN
COLEMAN, MOSES HERRMAN, HENRY
COLEMAN, REUBEN HAHN, MARTIN
DAVIS, ISAAC HESS, CHARLES
DAVIS, NATHAN HESS, SAMUEL
HAHN, CHARLES KLEIN, SAMUEL
HARRIS, ABRAHAM KING, JACOB
HOFMAN, LEWIS KOHLER, ELIAS
HAHN, MORRIS LOEB, BENJAMIN
HOFMAN, DAVID LOZIER, ALEXANDER
HARRIS, SAMUEL LYON, EBENEZER
HOFMAN, BENJAMIN LYON, LEWIS
HOFMAN, ISAAC LEHMAN, JOSEPH
HART, DAVID MYERS, JULIUS
HOFMAN, JACOB MEYER, ALEXANDER
HARRIS, JOSEPH MEYER, HENRY
HARTMAN, GUSTAV MEYER, FRANK
HARRIS, JACOB B. MEYER, JOSEPH
HART, ISAAC MEIER, CHARLES
HART, JACOB C. MEYER, JOSEPH
ISAAC, HENRY MEIER, CHARLES
JACOBS, HENRY MEYERS, SAMUEL
JACOBS, WILLIAM MEYER, JACOB
JOSEPHS, FREDERICK MORITZ, GEORGE
JACOBS, JOSEPH MEYERS, ADOLPH
JACOBS, CHARLES MEYER, ISAAC
KING, MOSES MEYERS, JOSEPH
KOENIG, MAXIMILIAN MEYERS, LOUIS
KUHN, THEO. MARX, CHARLES
KOHLER, HENRY MEYER, JOSEPH P.
KUHN, FERDINAND MOSES, WILLIAM
KLEIN, LUDWIG MOSES, A.
KING, ISAAC MARKS, JOSEPH
KING, ISAAC M. MEIER, HERMAN
KING, JOSEPH MEIER, LEWIS
KONIG, GUSTAV NEWMAN, JOSEPH
KLEIN, JOSEPH NEWMAN, JACOB
KOCH, FREDERIC NEWMAN, JULIUS
KING, ALEXANDER NAUMAN, JULIUS
KUHN, JACOB NEWMAN, DAVID
KING, ABRAHAM NEWMAN, LEVI
KING, LEWIS NEWMAN, JOEL
KOHLER, JACOB NEWMAN, DAVID
SOMINSON, FREDERICK SIMON, HENRY
SANGER, CARL STAHL, LEOPOLD
SIMONS, JOSEPH VOGEL, FERDINAND
SIGAL, BENJAMIN VOGEL, LOUIS
SIMON, SAMUEL VOGEL, JOSEPH
SIMONS, LEVI VOGEL, LEWIS
SIMONS, JOSEPH WOLF, AUGUST
STEIN, LOUIS WEISS, ADOLPH
SIMONSON, JESSE WOLF, CHARLES
STEINBACH, JOSEPH WOLF, FREDERICK
SIMONS, ISAAC WOLF, JOSEPH
WOLF, WILLIAM
NEW YORK.
ASHER, MOSES BACHARACH, MORITZ
ASHER, ISAAC BERNSTEIN, DAVID
ASSENHEIMER, ISAAC BLUM, ADOLPH
ADLER, MOSES BRILL, HENRY
ASHER, DAVID BLUM, ISAAC
ADLER, MARCUS Baruch, M.
ASH, ISAAC BAER, ABRAHAM
ARNHEIM, OSCAR BALL, SIMON
ADLER, DAVID BACHMAN, ABRAHAM
AARON, DAVID BAER, MOSES
ASH, MOSES BIEN, MORITZ
ARNHEIM, GUSTAV BERLINER, A.
ASH, LEWIS BRESLAUER, ALEXANDER
AARON, LOUIS BAUER, JULIUS
AARON, MOSES BAUM, C.
ARNOLD, FRANK BLUMENTHAL, CHARLES
ALTMAN, ISAAC BAUM, WILLIAM
AUERBACH, GOTTLIEB BACHARACH, SIMON
ACKERMAN, ADOLPH BAMBERGER, LOUIS
ALTMAN, CHARLES COHEN, MOSES
ACKERMAN, GUSTAV DAVIDSON, JACOB
AUERBACH, MOSES DAVIDSON, ISAAC
BUNSTEIN, MOSES DAVIDSON, OSCAR
BACHARACH, MARCUS DAVID, MOSES
BLUMENSTEIN, MAYER DAVID, ISAAC
EPPENSTEIN, MORRIS LAZARUS, EDWARD
EHRLICH, J. LOWENTHAL, SIMON
EISEMAN, MAX LEDERMAN, MORITZ
FRIEDBERG, H. LOWENSTEIN, ISAAC
FRIEDMAN, ISAAC LANDAUER, JOSEPH
FLEISCHMAN, M. MANNHEIMER, MOSES
FRIEDMAN, ADOLPH MANN, JOSEPH
FLEISCHMAN, GEORGE MAY, ADOLPH
GOODMAN, MAYER MAAS, FREDERICK
GOTTLIEB, MOSES MANTEL, LEWIS
GOODMAN, M. MENDELSON, JOSEPH
GOTTLIEB, A. MARCUS, OSCAR
GOODMAN, LEWIS MANDELBAUM, ISAAC
GOLDSMITH, I. NATHAN, SIMON
HARRIS, M. NATHANSON, JACOB
HARRIS, GEORGE NUSSBAUM, MOSES
HARRIS, ADOLPH OPPENHEIMER, MAIER
HEINEMAN, ADOLPH OCHS, MOSES
HOCHHEIM, M. PINKSON, GUSTAV
JACOBSON, M. PROSKAUER, JACOB
JACOBSON, A. POLLOCK, ISAAC
JONES, DAVID POLLOCK, MOSES
JONES, MEIER POSNER, JOSEPH
JONES, OSCAR ROSENBAUM, JOSEPH
JONES, ADOLPH ROTHSCHILD, MEYER
JONES, MARTIN ROTHSCHILD, JACOB
KOHN, MAYER ROSENFELD, ABRAHAM
KOHN, ALEXANDER RAPHAEL, JOSEPH
KAUFMAN, ISAAC ROSENBLATT, JULIUS
KAHN, OSCAR STRAUSS, MOSES
KOCH, J. STRAUSS, OSCAR
KATZ, JACOB SINZHEIMER, GUSTAV
KONG, ISAAC SCHOENTHAL, GEORGE
LOEB, JACOB SELIGNAN, JOSEPH
LOEB, MOSES SCHOENBERG, MAYER
LICHTENSTEIN, JACOB SCHOENEMAN, HARRY
LIMBURGER, ISAAC SILBERMAN, MOSES
LEVY, BERNHARD SPIEGEL, LOUIS
LIPPMAN, MOSES SCHIFF, DANIEL
SCHONEWALT, MORITZ WEINBERG, JULIUS
SCHWAB, ADOLPH WIENER, MORITZ
SCHWAB, HENRY WEIL, JULIUS
STERN, FREDERICK WASSEMAN, MORRIS
SACHS, LEWIS WASSEMAN, SIMON
SCHLESSINGER, ELI WEINSTEIN, JOSEPH
SCHWARZSCHILD, HENRY WISE, SIMON
NORTH CAROLINA.
ABRAHAM, S. MEYER, SAMUEL
COHEN, MOSES OPPENHEIM, DAVID
MAYER, NATHAN WOLF, JOSEPH
Killed in action.
OHIO.
AARONSTEIN, I. COLEMAN, ABRAHAM
ALTMAN, FRANK COLEMAN, JACOB
ABRAHAM, ALEXANDER COLEMAN, DAVID
ACKERMAN, HENRY DAVIS, JOSEPH
ALEXANDER, JACOB DAVIS, ASA
ALEXANDER, ISAAC DAVIS, SAMUEL
ACKERMAN, JOSEPH DAVIS, FRANK
ALEXANDER, DAVID DAVIS, DAVID
ALTMAN, SAMUEL DAVIS, HENRY
ALTMAN, SOLOMON DAVIS, LEVI
BAUER, GUSTAV DAVIS, ABRAHAM
BALL, LEWIS DAVIS, OSCAR
BAUER, JACOB DAVIS, ELI
BALL, ABRAHAM DAVIS, ISAAC
BASH, MOSES DAVIS, LEWIS
BRILL, DAVID DAVIS, BENJAMIN
BALL, SOLOMON DAVIS, JACOB
BASH, BERNARD DAVIS, ISRAEL
BAER, ISAAC DAVIS, NATHAN
BAUM, CHARLES EHRLICH, ADOLPH
BLAU, EMIL EHRLICH, CHARLES
BLAU, A. EHRLICH, LEWIS
CLINE, JACOB FIX, BERNARD
FRANKS, GUSTAV HAHNEMAN, J.
FRANK, HEYMAN ISAACSON, HENRY
FRIEDBURG, PHILIP ISAACS, MOSES
FIX, LEWIS ISRAEL, ELIAS
FUCHS, DAVID JONES, ISAAC
FREUND, DANIEL JONES, HENRY
FREEMAN, ABRAHAM JONES, JACOB
FREUND, JACOB JONES, DAVID
FREEMAN, SAMUEL JONES, AARON
FRIEDMAN, JACOB JONES, JULIUS
FUCHS, JACOB JONES, LEVI
FRANK, DAVID KLEIN, JESSE
GREEN, ISAAC KLEIN, LEWIS
GREEN, JACOB KOCH, CHARLES
GOODMAN, JOSEPH KING, BENJAMIN
GOODMAN, DAVID KLEIN, CHARLES
GREEN, LEVI KING, JOSEPH
GREEN, DAVID KLEIN, HENRY
GREEN, ABRAHAM KONIGSBURGER, HENRY
HARRIS, SOLOMON LIPPOLD, JACOB
HARRIS, LEVI LUDWIG, LEWIS
HART, ISAAC LEDERMAN, JOSEPH
HOFMAN, HENRY LUDWIG, JACOB
HARRIS, EPHRAIM LESTER, BENJAMIN
HAYS, ALEXANDER LUDWIG, ISAAC
HELLER, CHARLES LEDERMAN, SAMUEL
HARRIS, ABRAHAM LUDWIG, DANIEL
HALLER, BENJAMIN LESTER, DAVID
HARRIS, SIMON LUDWIG, SAMUEL
HOCHSTEDTER, HUGO LIPPOLD, FREDERICK
HEINE, HENRY LUDWIG, NOAH
HART, FRANK LOWENSTEIN, J.
HARRIS, BENJAMIN LOWENTHAL, I.
HARRIS, SAMUEL LEVI, NATHAN
HART, BENJAMIN LEVI, HENRY I.
HARRIS, LEWIS MOSES, HENRY
HELLER, JACOB MARKS, LESTER
HAYS DAVID MANGOLD, HENRY
MOSES, PERRY PERLEY, V
MANN, LEWIS RAPP, DAVID
MARIENTHAL, SIMON RICH, CHARLES
MICHELS, ABRAHAM RAPP, ADOLPH
MOSES, ASA ROSE, AARON
MANGOLD, JACOB RAPP, JACOB
MARKS, JACOB ROSE, NATHAN
MUNZ, GOTTLIEB ROSE, DAVID
MOSES, CHARLES RUBD, WILLIAM
MANUEL, JAMES SCHWEITZER, JACOB
METZGER, JACOB SWITZER, HENRY
MANGOLD, GEORGE SAMPSON, FRANK
MOSES, JAMES SCHENK, SALOMON
MARX, J. H. SCHWARZ, GOTTLIEB
MOSES, ENOCH SCHLOSSER, S.
MANGOLD, JOSEPH SCHIFF, SIMON
MANN, ALEXANDER TACHAN, HENRY G.
MOSES, WILLIAM TANNHAUSER, A.
MOAK, J. UTZ, JACOB
MOSES, ENOCH UTZ, JOSEPH
NIEMAN, THEODORE UTZ, SAMUEL
NIEMAN, CHARLES YOST, EPHRAIM
OCHS, JULIUS YOST, DAVID
ORBANSKI, ABRAHAM YOST, CHARLES
PHILLIPS, EMANUEL YOST, DANIEL
PHILIP, NOAH YOST, HENRY
PHILLIPS, LEWIS WISNER, HENRY
PHILLIPS, DANIEL WITTKOWSKY, H.
PIKE, H. WITTKOWSKY, K.
PENNSYLVANIA.
DE YOUNG, CHARLES LEVY, ELIAS
FLEISHER, MOYER LEWI, DAVID
32nd Regiment of Pennsylvania SAMUEL ABRAHAM
State Militia. STERN, ISRAEL W.
HIGHHILL, ISRAEL Served four years and
HIGHHILL, SOLOMON three months.
LEHMAN, SOLOMON STERN, SIMON
SOUTH CAROLINA.
BARUCH, D LYONS, ISAAC L.
COHEN, O Seriously wounded.
Killed in action. MOSES, A. I.
COHEN, HENRY MOSES, ISAAC C.
Buried at Richmond. MENKEN, NATHAN
GOLDSMITH, ABRAHAM MILLER, EZRA B.
HIRSCH, ISAAC Killed in action.
JACOBS, HENRY MOSES, DR. FRANK J.
Killed in action. NATHAN, JULIUS
LEHMAN, ABRAHAM SIMON, A.
Killed in action. SOLOMON, H.
LEOPOLD, JACK WEISS, SAMUEL
Wounded in action. Killed in action.
TENNESSEE.
FELSENTHAL, ----} (Brothers) FRAUENTHAL, M
FELSENTHAL, ----} SOLOMON, ERNST
TEXAS.
FLEISCHEL, CAPTAIN MAYER, LEO E.
KAUFMAN, C. Captured.
KAUFMAN, K.
VIRGINIA.
BACHARACH, M. HOLZINGER, E.
Buried at Richmond. HESSBERG, I.
BACHARACH, S. Killed in action.
Buried at Richmond. KAYTON, HERRMAN
EICHEL, JACOB KROMER, C. H.
EICHEL, A. LEVIN, SOLOMON M.
FALK, EMANUEL MOISE, WILBORN
FLEISCHMAN, SOLOMON MARCUS, MADISON
GOLDBERG, ---- MILLER, CHARLES
GANS, LEON WEIL, CHARLES
WEST VIRGINIA.
BLONDHEIM, H.
ADDENDA TO LISTS OF SOLDIERS
[Additional names received after printing of lists, and before
close of present form.]
CHARLES BAUM served in the 80th Ohio Infantry, during the Civil
War. Mr. Baum is now a resident and a leading merchant of
Washington, D. C.
SOLOMON POLOCK and LOUIS POLOCK, two brothers, served in the Army
during the Mexican War.
LIEUTENANT LAUCHHEIMER, serves as Judge Advocate-general in the
Regular Army of the United States.
JACOB LYON enlisted in June, 1854, in Battery E, 2nd Regiment,
United States Artillery. He re-enlisted in June, 1859, and was
honorably discharged in June, 1864. Participated in eighteen
engagements.
CHARLES STEIN enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, June
22nd, 1864, at Philadelphia, Pa., became sergeant and was honorably
discharged, June 22nd, 1868. He died on March 6th, 1881, from
disease contracted while in the service.
MORITZ AUGENSTEIN served in Company E, 52nd Regiment, New York
Infantry, during the Civil War.
SIMON FLEISHER served in Company A, 18th North Carolina Infantry,
during the Civil War.
MORRIS M. KATZ served in Company A, 18th North Carolina Infantry,
during the Civil War.
ABRAHAM MAYER served in Company A, 18th North Carolina Infantry,
during the Civil War.
AARON STERN served in the Regular Army before and during the Civil
War. Now attached to the Record and Pension Division of the War
Department, at Washington, D. C.
CHARLES KATZENSTEIN, Regular Army, now connected with the Record
and Pension Division of the War Department.
BENJAMIN JACOBS, Regular Army, now in Adjutant General's office, at
Washington, D. C.
STATISTICAL.
NUMBER OF JEWISH SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN DIFFERENT WARS OF THE UNITED
STATES.
In the Continental Armies (including patriots) 46
In the War of 1812 44
In the Mexican War 58
In the United States Regular Army 96
In the United States Navy 78
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Staff Officers in the Union Army 16
Staff Officers in the Confederate Army 24
Officers in the Confederate Navy 11
Soldiers classified in Regiments from different
States who served in the Union and Confederate
Armies during the Civil War 7038
Soldiers unclassified as to States who served
during the Civil War 834
Other Soldiers (indicated in Addenda) 12
----
Total in all wars 8257
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
NUMBER OF SOLDIERS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO STATES.
Alabama. 135
Arkansas. 53
California. 28
Connecticut. 17
District of Columbia. 3
Florida. 2
Georgia. 144
Illinois. 702
Indiana. 475
Iowa. 12
Kansas. 9
Kentucky. 22
Louisiana. 224
Maine. 1
Maryland. 7
Massachusetts. 174
Michigan. 130
Mississippi. 158
Missouri. 86
Nevada. 3
New Hampshire. 2
New Jersey. 277
New Mexico. 2
New York. 1996
North Carolina 58
Ohio. 1004
Pennsylvania. 527
Rhode Island. 4
South Carolina. 182
Tennessee. 38
Texas. 103
Vermont. 1
Virginia. 119
Washington Territory. 1
West Virginia. 7
Wisconsin. 331
Wyoming Territory. 1
----
Total. 7038
JEWISH PATRIOTISM IN CIVIL LIFE.
The foregoing lists of Jewish soldiers in the armies of the Civil War
may well be supplemented by a review of Jewish activity in civil walks
in connection with that momentous struggle. In the political movements
for the abolition of slavery there were not lacking many Jews who
took an active and at times a leading part in the moulding of public
opinion, and the fact that the influence of these men did not become
more widespread may be regarded as almost wholly due to their having
been but recent immigrants from foreign lands and therefore comparative
strangers in the communities in which they settled. Such men were
Michael Heilprin, the scholar and philanthropist whose devotion to
liberty had previously been attested by his activity as a member of
Kossuth's civil staff during the Hungarian Revolution; Dr. Edward
Morwitz, then a writer and afterwards publisher of the "Demokrat," a
German newspaper of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Sabato Morais, then
and still at present the Rabbi of a Philadelphia congregation. Dr.
David Einhorn's ardent advocacy of the abolition of slavery led to
his removal from Baltimore; and in New York, Rev. Samuel M. Isaacs,
then Rabbi of a congregation of that city and editor of the "Jewish
Messenger," took an earnest part in the movement.
* * * * *
In the West, among the pioneers of the Jewish community, are to be
named in this connection Dr. James Horwitz, of Cleveland; Rabbi
Liebman Adler, then of Detroit; Henry Greenebaum, then a member of
the City Council of Chicago; Edward Salomon, afterwards County Clerk
of Cook county and subsequently Brigadier-General in the army, and
Leopold Mayer and Michael Greenebaum, likewise of Chicago. In an
article on the German pioneers of Chicago, published in a late issue
in the "Times-Herald" of that city (June 9th, 1895), are printed some
interesting reminiscences of ante-bellum times, wherein Mr. Mayer is
quoted as follows:
"The fugitive slave law set us at loggerheads with the powers
that were. It was sometime in 1853 when a United States Marshal,
on the corner of Van Buren and Sherman streets, arrested a poor
devil of a negro as a fugitive. A crowd of citizens, led by Michael
Greenebaum, liberated the prisoner and on the same evening a big
meeting was held to ratify this act. The enthusiasm in this meeting
reached its highest pitch when Long John Wentworth entered the hall
and publicly declared from the platform that he would be with us in
resisting the enforcement of the barbaric law. From that time we
slowly but steadily marched up hill. The first official call for a
German mass meeting to join the Republican party appeared in the
'Staats Zeitung' signed by George Schneider, Adolph Loeb, Julius
Rosenthal, a cigar dealer by the name of Hanson and my humble self."
Here we find four Jews among five leaders of the German population of
Chicago in a great political movement.
* * * * *
In another portion of the same article another of the old pioneers,
William Vocke, Esq., referring to the record of the 24th Illinois
regiment, is quoted as follows:
"Our regiment served three years and three months. With recruits
taken in from time to time, fully 1200 men had joined it. Only 240
of us returned. One company of this regiment consisted exclusively
of Hebrews. It was led by Captain Lasalle, who stuck it out with us
to the last."
* * * * *
Another striking incident of the forcefulness of Jewish sentiment in
the great agitation that preceded the outbreak of the war is recorded
by Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U. S. N., in his "History of
the Flag of the United States of America," (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Boston, fourth edition, 1894.) We quote as follows: (Page 406).
"On the 11th of February, 1861, Mr. Lincoln, the President-elect
of the United States, left his home in Springfield, Illinois,
for the seat of government, accompanied by a few friends. His
fellow-citizens and neighbors gathered at the railway station to
wish him God-speed. He was visibly affected by this kind attention,
and addressed the assembly of his friends in a few words,
requesting they would all pray that he might receive the Divine
assistance in the responsibilities he was about to encounter,
without which he could not succeed, but with which success was
certain. Before leaving Springfield, he received from Abraham Kohn,
city clerk of Chicago, a fine picture of the flag of the Union,
bearing an inscription in Hebrew on its folds. The verses being the
4th to 9th verses of the first chapter of Joshua, in which Joshua
was commanded to reign over a whole land, the last verse being:
'Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not
afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord, thy God, is with
thee whithersoever thou goest.'"
* * * * *
In a recent speech at Ottawa, Kansas, on June 20, 1895, (quoted in
the _Reform Advocate_, of Chicago, July 13, 1895,) Governor William
McKinley, of Ohio, referred to this incident as follows:
"What more beautiful conception than that which prompted Abraham
Kohn, of Chicago, in February, 1861, to send to Mr. Lincoln, on
the eve of his starting to Washington, to assume the office of
president, a flag of our country, bearing upon its silken folds
these words from the first chapter of Joshua: 'Have I not commanded
thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou
dismayed, for the Lord, thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou
goest. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the
days of thy life. As I was with Moses so shall I be with thee. I
will not fail thee nor forsake thee.'
"Could anything have given Mr. Lincoln more cheer, or been better
calculated to sustain his courage or to strengthen his faith in the
mighty work before him? Thus commanded, thus assured, Mr. Lincoln
journeyed to the capital, where he took the oath of office and
registered in heaven an oath to save the Union. And the Lord, our
God, was with him, until every obligation of oath and duty was
sacredly kept and honored. Not any man was able to stand before
him. Liberty was the more firmly enthroned, the Union was saved,
and the flag which he carried floated in triumph and glory from
every flagstaff of the republic."
* * * * *
In reply to a letter addressed to him by the daughter of Abraham Kohn,
Mrs. Dankmar Adler (whose husband, the architect of the Auditorium
building and one of the architects of the Columbian Exposition, had
fought through the war and been wounded at Chickamauga), Major McKinley
wrote: "The incident deeply impressed me when I first learned of it,
and I have taken occasion to use it, as in my speech at Ottawa, to
which you refer.
"I am very glad to have been able to give publicity to this
striking incident, and I am sure that the family of Mr. Kohn should
feel very proud of his patriotic act."
* * * * *
The patriotism of the Jewish people in the support of the soldiers in
the field was no less positive than their participation in the fray
itself. The various bodies organized at the North for the support of
the government, such as the Sanitary Commissions, counted a full quota
of Jewish citizens among their membership everywhere.
Prominent in the West among these earnest co-workers in the cause
of the Union was the lamented Benjamin F. Peixotto, of Cleveland,
who severed the affiliations of an active political career and took
an earnest part in arousing the patriotic sentiment of the people.
He contributed largely of his means to the furtherance of the civil
movements in support of the men at the front and attained a recognized
position as a leader. When in 1872, the Jews of Roumania were subjected
to persecutions by the Government of that principality, Mr. Peixotto
was selected as Consul of the United States at Bucharest,[26] in
which capacity his services were of marked importance to the cause of
humanity and won for him the gratitude of the Jewish people at large,
as well as the confidence and support of our government. Other Jewish
patriotic leaders in the West during the war were Isidor Busch, of St.
Louis; Henry Mack, of Cincinnati; Nathan Bloom, of Louisville, and
others that ought, perhaps, to find mention here.
Notable in this connection at the East was Hon. A. S. Solomons, now the
General Agent of the Baron de Hirsch Trust in the United States. Before
the war and during its early years he was a leading Jewish citizen of
Washington and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of President Lincoln,
of Secretaries Stanton and Chase, and of many other leading spirits of
the time. His home was a centre of patriotic activity and he made heavy
sacrifices of his personal interest in behalf of the Union cause.
In the South, during the dark and trying days of the Confederacy, the
Jewish citizens of that section displayed to the full their devotion
to the cause which they held at heart. The Jewish Southerners were as
zealous in their efforts as were their neighbors all about them, and
however mistaken was their contention, they adhered to it tenaciously.
A Jew, it is said, fired the first gun against Fort Sumter, and another
Jew gave the last shelter to the fleeing President and Cabinet of the
fallen Confederacy.
Throughout the country, North and South, the earnestness of the Jewish
character found expression through an active participation by Jewish
citizens in the great movements of the time. A closer examination of
this feature of our subject would involve a detailed reference to the
leading members of the various Jewish communities throughout the land,
and carry us into fields beyond our present scope, which have already
received the careful attention of other writers.[27]
* * * * *
One specially significant example of American Jewish citizenship and
manly worth yet claims our attention. In New York, foremost in every
patriotic movement, were the brothers Joseph and Jesse Seligman. The
place that they filled in the affairs of that time and since has
become a part of our country's history. Their influence in maintaining
the financial credit of the Government during the war was of far
reaching import for the cause of the Union, and the recognition of
their services led President Grant to offer to Joseph Seligman, who
died in 1880, a place in his Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. The
universal esteem in which Joseph and Jesse Seligman were held, not
alone as men of affairs, but as patriots, citizens and philanthropists,
was well betokened by the expressions given to the public feeling when
Jesse Seligman died. Some of these expressions may well be cited here,
for Jesse Seligman was, _par excellence_, as perfect a type of the
American Jew as he was typically an American citizen. He died in April,
1894, and from among the innumerable tributes to his worth, we cite a
few of the expressions of some of the leading men of the metropolis,
whose stations are a guarantee of their judgment and sincerity, and
most of whom had known him through a generation of years.
Lengthy, comparatively speaking, in view of the necessary limitations
of this volume, as are these several presentations, they yet command
our full consideration by reason of their great significance.
* * * * *
Hon. Carl Schurz, on the occasion of the Memorial Services at the New
York Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Decoration Day, May 30, 1894, painted for
his audience in the following deeply thoughtful utterances a vivid
picture of a model Jew and a model man:
"It is most fit that the memory of Jesse Seligman should be
celebrated here, on this very spot. I see him now, as he stood
here years ago, when the corner-stone of this magnificent building
was laid, and when, owing to his friendly invitation, I enjoyed
the privilege of taking part in the dedication ceremonies, I
see him, his face beaming with joy over the good that had been
accomplished, and with glad anticipation of the greater good still
to be done, for his whole heart was in this noble work. And here,
where his monument stands--not a mere monument of stone or brass,
but a living monument in grateful human hearts--here, where he
still lives and will not die, the lessons of his life may be most
worthily learned, not to be forgotten.
"Indeed, the legacy not only of benefactions, but of lessons which
that life has left behind it, may be, especially to the young
among us, if they understand well and treasure them up to inspire
and guide their hearts and minds, of far greater value than any
amount of his money that Jesse Seligman might have bequeathed to
them. Some of us may, perhaps, have envied him while he lived, as
an eminently successful man. But do we consider him worthy of envy
now, since he is dead? Why do we honor his memory, and wish that,
when we shall be gone, we should, in many respects, be remembered
as he is? Because he was a rich man? Certainly not; for that is
in itself nothing to be proud of. The ambition to be merely rich
is only a small and vulgar ambition. It may be gratified by the
accident of birth or of good fortune; it may be gratified by the
diligent and constant exertion of faculties, which do not by any
means belong to the higher attainment of human nature. Of those
who, in the history of mankind, left most fragrant memories behind
them, only very few were distinguished by great wealth, and the
mere possession of that wealth never constituted their title to
affection and reverence.
"Are we honoring Jesse Seligman because he was a successful,
self-made man? This is especially in our country of great
opportunities, not in itself a distinction deserving uncommon
esteem. I know, and no doubt you know, self-made men so
inordinately puffed up with their own success, so forgetful of the
merits of others in comparison with their own, so oppressive with
the ostentations and unceasing display of their riches as their
self-appreciation, that they rank among the most disagreeable
members of human society, making us wish that they had made
anything else but themselves.
"Or do we admire Jesse Seligman above others because he was a
patriotic man? No, for under ordinary circumstances it is only
a natural thing to be patriotic. Especially a citizen of this
Republic is more apt to attract attention and to be blamed when he
is not patriotic, than to be praised when he is.
"All these things, therefore, are in themselves not sufficient to
make a life valuable as a memory, and as an inspiration. Jesse
Seligman's life, as we look back upon it, is such a valuable memory
and inspiring lesson because he was above the ordinary level of the
merely rich, self-made, liberal and patriotic men.
"The ideal rich man is he, who not only has come by his wealth
honestly, but who uses his riches in such a fashion as to silence
the voice of envy, and to make those who knew him glad and grateful
that he was rich. To reach this ideal completely is given to but
few. But it may truly be said that Jesse Seligman approached it.
No doubt, he wished to be rich and worked for it. He valued the
acquisition of wealth, but he valued it most as the acquisition
of opportunities for something larger and nobler. He saw his
business success but not his higher ambition and his happiness in
his balance sheets. He felt himself greater and happier in this
orphan-home than in his bank. He made his wealth a blessing to
others; he enjoyed it the more, the greater the blessing to others
it became, and there were many who wished him to be much richer,
knowing that his greater wealth would only have become to many
others greater relief and comfort. He was such a self-made man as
it is a joy to meet. In a high degree he had the self-made man's
virtues and was remarkably free from his faults. He never forgot
his lowly beginnings, but never boasted of them, to contrast his
success with other people's failures. His recollections only
stimulated his sympathy with those less fortunate than himself.
He did not in his affluence affect the rough simplicity and
contempt of refinement in which upstarts sometimes demonstratively
please themselves and which is only a coarse form of vanity; and
still less was he an ostentatious swaggerer bent upon letting
the world perceive that he possessed his millions. He lived with
his family in a style becoming his means, but with the modesty
becoming a gentleman. There was no gaudy display of riches, no
obtrusive flashing of diamonds on hotel piazzas, and no flaring
exhibition in opera boxes. But there was nothing mean about him or
his. The hospitality of his house was hearty and most generous,
but it abstained from anything that might have made one of his
guests feel poor or small. Nor was there anything in him of that
superciliousness not unfrequently met with in rich men which claims
for them much wisdom, because they have much money.
"In all my experience I have never met a rich man, more modest,
more generous more tolerant of adverse opinion, or a self-made man
less overbearing, less vain-glorious, and less conceited, more
sympathetic and more helpful. As a matter of fact, he was thought
much richer than he really was--richer not because of his display,
but because of his benefactions. To judge from the good he did,
his wealth should have been much greater. He was a liberal giver,
but he gave much more than money. That rich man only manifests
the true spirit of benevolence who not only gives to the needy,
but who also thinks for them and works for them. It was by this
that Jesse Seligman proved the genuine gold of his humanity, and
nowhere did this gold shine more brightly than on this very spot.
There was indeed no charitable enterprise within his reach that did
not feel the generosity of his open hand, and, when needed, the
kindly thoughtfulness of his counsel, from the hospital and the
home for the aged up to that remarkable triumph of wisely directed
energy, the Hebrew Technical Institute, which not only successfully
demonstrates that the Jew, when well guided, will take to skilled
handicraft with enthusiasm and with the whole force and ingenuity
of his nature, but which also in its plan, organization and conduct
may serve as a noble model of its kind to the educators of any
country and of any creed.
"All such endeavors could count upon Jesse Seligman's bountiful
aid; and when his last will was opened and the community saw
the list of the benevolent institutions to which he had left
bequests, without regard to religion or nationality, with
unsurpassed catholicity of spirit, people asked with wonder, not
what opportunities for doing good he had thought of, but whether
there was any he had failed to remember. It was, however, here
in the Orphans' Home that his heart found its favorite field for
beneficent work. Here he lived on the best of his nature. It was
truly touching to see this man, loaded down with the enormous
responsibilities and cares of a vast financial business, at least
once a week, every Sunday morning, wend his way to this house,
forget all about bonds and stocks and syndicates and chances of
gain and financial crises in which fortunes might be lost, and to
give all his thoughts to the little ones who are cast upon the
mercy of the world, and study and scheme and work--as indeed he
did often also when he was not here to turn sunshine upon their
bereaved existence--to arm them for the struggles of life, and to
enable them to become useful, self-reliant, self-respecting and
happy citizens of a free country. This was the work he loved most,
which satisfied his fondest ambition and in which he found the most
genuine happiness. In the best sense of the word he was the father
of the fatherless and it was his active, untiring and unceasing
care for the welfare of these children, more than any other of his
benefactions, that stamped him as a truly benevolent man, a genuine
friend of humanity and therefore this is the noblest and most
enduring of his monuments.
"He was a patriotic man--not in the sense merely that he cheerfully
performed all his duties as a citizen, or that he gave the
government valuable advice and aid as a financier whenever called
upon--but that he ardently loved his adopted country, was proud of
it and was not only willing but eager to serve it. Some gentlemen
of high standing among us here have in their published tributes to
Jesse Seligman's memory, regretfully mentioned the fact that he
and his son, too, have been struck at by anti-Semitic hostility,
by that narrow-minded, contemptible spirit which revived the
prejudices of dark ages and which seeks in barbarous persecution
the remedy for evils, for which popular ignorance, sloth and
improvidence are in the largest manner responsible; a spirit so
utterly abhorrent to justice and enlightened reason, that it is
difficult to understand how a person of self-respect can share it
or behold it in others without shame and indignation.
"I have heard it said that a Jew cannot be a patriot because he
has no fatherland. Those who say so do not want the Jew to have a
fatherland and would, if they had their way, make it impossible
for him to be a patriot. A country can hardly expect those of its
inhabitants to be ardent patriots whom it treats as aliens or
outcasts. In the same measure as an anti-Semitic spirit prevails,
a Jew is a patriot under difficulties. If he is a patriot under
anti-Semitic persecution, that patriotism is in him a virtue of
especial merit. And this virtue Jesse Seligman possessed in the
highest degree. I saw him and spoke with him when the smart he had
suffered was fresh. I know how keenly he felt it, but I know also
that had at that moment the country, or what he understood to be
the public interest, demanded of him any service or any sacrifice
he would have offered it with the same enthusiastic devotion that
ever had animated him. He would have remained a patriot in spite
of any difficulty--a shining example for his own race to follow,
putting to shame its revilers; indeed, an example to every citizen
of whatever creed or origin.
"And now he lies in an honored grave, and by it stand with sadness,
but also with pride, his dear ones whom he loved so much, and who
so warmly returned his love. And you all have come, rich and poor,
native and foreign born, Christian and Jew and Gentile, with hearts
full of respect and affection for the man who understood the great
truth, and whose life has taught the greatest lesson, that our
truest and most enduring happiness springs from the contributions
we make to the happiness of others--a lesson that every one may
follow according to his means and opportunities, each in his sphere
and in his way, to win the same happiness and to deserve the same
honor. It may well be said that he had not lived in vain whose life
has left its mark in the advanced well being of his kind; and there
are multitudes of human beings whose tears he has dried, whose
distress he has relieved, whom he has helped to make strong for
the struggle of life who now and ever will gratefully affirm and
proclaim that Jesse Seligman has surely not lived in vain, and who
will never cease to bless his memory."
* * * * *
Ex-Postmaster General Thomas E. James, President of the Lincoln
National Bank of New York City, wrote the following graphic and
affecting tribute:--
"I have received the news of the death of Jesse Seligman with the
shock which comes only with the announcement of the sudden loss
of an old and valued friend. My acquaintance with him commenced
away back in the sixties; and I dearly learned to value his
sturdy honesty, his integrity, untiring industry, and his genial,
warm-hearted friendship. Moreover, I was impressed, in those dark
days when I first knew him, with his sterling patriotism, he being
one of those men of foreign birth who seemed to go beyond those of
us of native birth, in the all-consuming zeal and devotion for our
common flag. I think that is what particularly attracted me towards
Mr. Seligman; and I soon found that he really did understand more
fully and completely, perhaps, than many of us did, what the war
meant and what the result would be. He was one of those men, too,
who, when some were anxious, speaking hesitatingly about the
outcome, gave by his courageous faith and heroic example, a grand
impulse of which we afterwards saw the results in that impressive
tender by the financiers of New York of their credit and their gold
to the government in its extremity.
"He had undying faith in General Grant, too, in those dark hours.
He was one of the few men in New York who knew him personally,
and he never wavered in his confidence in the great commander's
ability to carry the war through to a successful issue. Later on we
learned the grounds of his faith; for he was probably the oldest
acquaintance of General Grant in New York, having become acquainted
with him in Watertown, N. Y., where Grant was then stationed as a
Second Lieutenant; and he had afterwards renewed the friendship,
when General Grant was sent as First Lieutenant to the Pacific
Coast, where he found his old friend Seligman one of the argonauts
of California.
"It was given to me, in an especially affecting and touching
manner, to see some of those traits in Mr. Seligman's inner life
and his family surroundings, which made his home one of the most
delightful in New York, and gave to him unusual charms in social
and friendly intercourse. I saw those qualities displayed in that
sad, sad summer of 1881, when General Garfield, stricken with an
assassin's bullet, lay on his deathbed, in a cottage at Elberon.
Mr. Seligman's summer home was at Long Branch; and, with that
thoughtful consideration and tenderness which distinguished the man
he showed the official family of the dying President courtesies
and kindnesses that were very grateful and which can never be
forgotten. A more pleasant family circle than Mr. Seligman's I
never met; and I will never cease to remember the charm of that
fireside. There, perhaps, Mr. Seligman was seen in the highest
display of the beautiful qualities of head and heart that made him
not only foremost as a great financier, but as a faithful friend....
... "Of course, I do not need to speak of his genius as a
financier. His name and fame in that particular are secure; and
his achievements will become traditions in the history of those
influences which have made this country the great financial power
among the nations of the earth."
* * * * *
Ex-Judge Noah Davis wrote as follows:
"By the death of Jesse Seligman our country loses a loving and
faithful citizen and friend. He loved America, though not his
native land, with all the ardor of a native, enhanced by a keen and
tender sense of gratitude for what it had done for his race and for
him and his brothers ever since they became its adopted sons.
"I have never met any foreign-born American citizen more prompt to
express warmly and gratefully this sentiment; and yet it will be
rare to find one who has so amply and generously repaid it. His
gratitude was not confined to words. His deeds preceded his words;
and if it had ever been necessary, he would have staked his whole
fortune and his life as well, for our country and its institutions.
"I recall an occasion, when he and I left the Union League Club
together, at a late hour one evening, and walked arm in arm up
the avenue to our homes. I listened as he gave me some happy
reminiscences of his busy life. When we reached the street, I
stopped to part with him. "No," said he, "I will walk further with
you," and he kept on till he reached my home on 50th street. "Now,"
I said, "it is my turn to walk with you, sir," and we walked slowly
back to his own street, where we compromised by his walking half
way back with me. In that delightful walk he developed to me his
loving nature toward our country, its government and its people. I
was chiefly a listener, but a deeply interested and pleased one,
for I could see and feel that a pure-hearted and patriotic man was
talking from the inmost bosom of a noble and tender nature.
"A few days before General Grant sailed on his tour around the
world, the brothers Seligman gave him a farewell dinner at
Delmonico's. There were forty or fifty people present. General
Grant was then fully relieved from all public cares, and felt that
the honors shown him on that occasion were the tribute of pure and
disinterested esteem and affection. He talked with me as I sat
near him of the services his hosts had rendered the government
during the war and to himself during his administration, with a
warm sense of what was due to their genuine patriotism. It happened
afterwards, and after his return from his Eastern tour, that I met
with General Grant in Paris. He spoke on that occasion of that
dinner and his great enjoyment of the evening, and gave a warm
expression of his esteem for the Seligmans and for their services
to the country and himself.
"It was a merited tribute of a noble man to worthy citizens and
friends, and I am glad to lay it now where General Grant would have
placed it--on the bier of Jesse Seligman, his devoted friend....
... "With all his skill, ability and success in business, with
all his love for his country, his devotion to order and good
government, his deep and tender attachment to his family and
friends, I think his chief virtue was 'Charity,' and that most
comprehensive and beautiful word should be inscribed on his tomb."
* * * * *
From General Horace Porter:
"The news of the death of Jesse Seligman has fallen upon many of
the most prominent business men in New York with something akin
to the quiet of a personal bereavement. Few of our citizens have
been more generally known or more highly esteemed. His sudden
removal from the company of his friends and from the active walks
of business life brings a deep regret to many hearts and recalls
the admirable traits which adorned his character. My personal
acquaintance with him began a few years after the war. I had before
that time heard officers of the army and others speak in admiring
terms of him during his sojourn on the Pacific Coast, where he had
displayed so much public spirit and such indomitable courage at the
time the law-abiding citizens were trying to redeem that community
from the domination of the criminal class. I found him displaying
the same qualities in the metropolis which had commended him to his
fellow-citizens in the West. He had been loyally devoted to the
cause of the Union in the great struggle for the preservation of
its integrity, and was always an ardent laborer in all great works.
He was never known to be anything but fearless in the advocacy of
the principles he believed to be right, and always manifested his
faith by his works.
"His death removes a foremost figure in our national and business
life; and we shall long look for one to take the place of this
man, Who by his genius as a financier, his broad liberal charity,
and his loving kindness towards suffering humanity, will long be
remembered; for Mr. Seligman's life and work have made him one of
the benefactors of mankind."
* * * * *
From F. B. Harper, President Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association:
"Few names in the financial and business world of New York are
better known than that of Jesse Seligman, financier, banker,
philanthropist, and citizen. It may truly be said of Mr. Seligman
that he attained one of the highest positions of good citizenship
in the metropolis of the nation. While, strictly speaking, a
financier, he was ever ready to bring capital, business experience
and financial ability into the broader industrial enterprises of
the nation which, in their building up, employ labor, pay out vast
sums in wages, add comfort to the masses, and bring prosperity
to the country. He was not a mere banker, but closely identified
with sound enterprises, which have built up the Empire State
and developed the resources of the republic. He was a man to be
respected, to be looked up to, and his career, as it seems to
me, is one that may well be studied to advantage by the youth of
his race and his country. The Hebrew race has undoubtedly given
to the world more of the most extraordinary instances of great
wealth, but at the same time it has produced many of the greatest
philanthropists the world has ever known.
"It is difficult to sum up in a few words such men as Mr. Seligman.
He was a man who, by his example, as well as his action benefitted
the community of which he was an honored member, and his death will
be greatly regretted, not only by those who knew him intimately,
but the whole community, because his demise will be a real loss to
them. Our wealth of humanity is not so great, even in this great
city, that we can afford to lose many such citizens."
* * * * *
From Henry G. Marquand, Esq., President, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"I was not brought in contact with the late Jesse Seligman as often
as some others, but during twenty years or more I saw enough of
him to form a very high opinion of his work as a citizen of this
republic. His views were always of the broad and generous stamp.
They were not confined to the various schemes of philanthropy, but
extended to the enterprises relating to high culture at home and
abroad, and by contact with him it was easy to see how quickly his
sympathies were aroused in favor of everything good...."
* * * * *
Ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, expresses himself as follows:
"The story of Jesse Seligman's life should be produced as the best
commentary on his career, and as an encouragement to all young men
who are starting out on the journey of life. * * * Perhaps the most
admirable point of his character was his catholic charity for the
opinion of others and his willingness to co-operate in every great
movement without regard to creed or race."
* * * * *
From Cornelius N. Bliss:
... "No truer friend, once in Jesse Seligman's confidence did
man ever have. With his partners, his brothers, he has been of
inestimable service to the United States Government from the time
of the Civil War.
"A believer in Republican principles, he was a quiet but
all-important influence in the councils of his party. Sagacious
in counsel, always for peace and unity, liberal in view,
rendering to all their just dues, he will be sorely missed in all
circles--social, charitable, business and political."
* * * * *
The foregoing may be fitly supplemented by the following extract from
a sermon delivered by the late Henry Ward Beecher, June 14, 1877.
Mr. Beecher's pointed references to the absurd prejudices which so
frequently manifest themselves at summer resorts have not yet lost
their force or application:
"I have the pleasure of the acquaintance of the gentleman whose
name has been the occasion of so much excitement--Mr. Seligman. I
have summered with his family for several years. I am acquainted
with him, with his honored wife, and with his sons and daughters;
and I have learned to respect and love them. During weeks and
months I was with them at the Twin Mountain House; and not only did
they behave in a manner becoming Christian ladies and gentlemen,
but they behaved in a manner that ought to put to shame many
Christian ladies and gentlemen. They were my helpers and they were
not only present at the Sunday services at the Twin Mountain House,
but they were present at the daily prayer meetings on week days,
volunteering services of kindness. I learned to feel that they were
my deacons and that in the ministration of Christian service they
were beyond the power of prejudice and did not confine themselves
to the limitations which might be prescribed by their race."
Hon. Carl Schurz makes reference, as the reader will have noted, to
the "unsurpassed catholicity of spirit" manifested by Jesse Seligman's
"bequests without regard to religion or nationality." Among the
beneficiaries of his concluding bounty were numbered no less than
thirty-six different non-Jewish institutions, the aggregate of these
legacies amounting to a very large sum. Unsurpassed as was this breadth
of liberality, it was by no means the first time when a Jew gave signal
evidence of the supreme catholicity of Judaism and the Jewish spirit.
Adverting but passingly to the story of Hyam Salomon's liberality,
we may stop to remember that Judah Touro, whose patriotism had been
attested with his blood in the defense of New Orleans, in 1815, left in
his last will and testament in 1854, an example of catholic munificence
unequalled before his time and unsurpassed since. Over and above the
various bequests made by him to Jewish institutions in different cities
of the Union, he left amounts averaging $5000 to fourteen charitable
institutions under the control of various Christian denominations,
besides $80,000 to the municipality of New Orleans for the poor of
that city, and $10,000 to the city of Newport, R. I., for a public
improvement. This latter formed the nucleus of the public park of that
city, which has commemorated in its "Touro Avenue" the public spirit
of this Jewish citizen, who has yet another memorial on Bunker Hill
monument, to the erection of which he so largely contributed.[28]
Michael Reese, of San Francisco, who died in 1878, bequeathed amounts
aggregating $70,000 to a number of non-Jewish charities, besides
$50,000 to the University of California, and left provisions which
eventuated in the establishment of the non-sectarian Michael Reese
Hospital of Chicago. Rosenna Osterman, of Galveston, and Isidor Dyer,
of the same city, divided their estates among charitable institutions
without distinction of creed.
* * * * *
Miss Ellen Phillips, of Philadelphia, whose long and useful life,
constantly devoted to the cause of charity, closed on February 2,
1891, after aiding the cause to which she was devoted by her unceasing
munificence during her lifetime, bequeathed the bulk of her property
to various charitable institutions. She left the large collection
of paintings and statuary which she inherited from her brother, the
late Henry M. Phillips, to the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, as an
addition to the collections in Memorial Hall, and divided a very large
sum of money among numerous charities, naming ten different non-Jewish
institutions among her beneficiaries.
* * * * *
The will of Dr. J. D. Berndt, of Pittsburg, Pa., divides a considerable
estate almost equally between Jewish and non-Jewish institutions, over
twenty of the latter class being named, and the residuary estate of
nearly $35,000 is equally divided between the American Hebrew College
of Cincinnati and Carnegie Library of Pittsburg.
* * * * *
Simon Muhr, of Philadelphia, whose untimely death in February, 1895,
was mourned by Jew and Gentile alike, after making certain personal
bequests and devoting a fund of $10,000 for the support of scholarships
in the University of Pennsylvania, left the residue of his large estate
to be divided into three parts, one part to be allotted among Jewish
charities, one part among non-Jewish charities, and the third part for
the improvement of the public school system of Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia _Times_ concluded an editorial reference to the death
of Simon Muhr as follows:
"It was his broad and simple tolerance, his unfailing charity
of heart as well as hand, his willingness and even eagerness to
take personal trouble, not only to relieve distress, but to right
wrong, and to defend the victim of oppression, however humble or
disreputable, that gave Simon Muhr a peculiar position in the
community and a peculiar usefulness. He was an example in this way
to many a professing Christian, whose reading of the parable leads
him only to condemn the priest and the Levite, and not to imitate
the Good Samaritan."
The instances of Jewish citizenship and catholicity here cited are but
the more prominent examples of that spirit. Only less conspicuous,
but with equal breadth and depth of feeling are many more that would
likewise point a moral for us all.
FOOTNOTES:
[26] The appointment of Mr. Peixotto to the Roumanian Consulate was
initiated and brought about by Hon. Simon Wolf, who afterwards made a
tour among the lodges of the Order of B'nai B'rith for the purpose of
raising funds to strengthen the Consul's position at Bucharest and to
enable him to more effectively exert his influence in behalf of the
persecuted Roumanian Jews.
In this connection mention may well and properly be made of Mr.
Wolf's untiring efforts, both in his early home in Ohio and later in
Washington, in behalf of the Union cause. The movements organized by
Mr. Wolf in Washington for the systematic aid of the sick and wounded
in the numerous hospitals then established in and about Washington
gained for him the recognition of the Government and the friendship
of General Grant. In this work Mr. Wolf enlisted the support of the
mass of the Jewish citizens of the District and especially the active
co-operation of the women of the Jewish community. General Grant,
when he became President, appointed Mr. Wolf Recorder of the City of
Washington and he was subsequently appointed by President Garfield
to the mission at Cairo as Diplomatic Agent and Consul General in
Egypt.--EDITOR.
[27] See Marken's "The Hebrews in America," New York, 1888; Judge
Charles P. Daly's "Settlement of the Jews in North America," edited
by Max J. Kohler, New York, 1893; "History of the Jews of Boston and
New England," by A. G. Daniels, Boston, 1892; "Eminent Israelites of
the 19th Century," by Henry S. Morais, Philadelphia, 1880; "The Jews
of Philadelphia," by the same author, Philadelphia, 1894, and the
publications of the American Jewish Historical Society.
[28] See pages 63-4.
JEWS IN LATIN AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS.
The preceding pages have dealt with various aspects of Jewish influence
in Anglo-Saxon America, and we have yet to consider the extent of that
influence in the Latin American settlements. Here in this Western
Hemisphere, where the Jew has sought an asylum from the historic
oppressions and repressions of Old World prejudices, and where, in the
very year that saw him expelled from Spain a new future was opened for
him and all humanity, here the Jew has been at the fore from the very
landing of Columbus to the present day.[29]
In the following pages is presented a review of Jewish activity and
influence in the South American Colonies and the West Indies, which
has been collated for this volume by Mr. George Alexander Kohut. His
careful studies and scientific investigations in this hitherto almost
untrodden field of historical research have resulted in the development
of many highly interesting facts, and his work affords a most welcome
contribution to our general subject. It will be found to command very
justly the space accorded to it.
FOOTNOTES:
[29] See Dr. M. Kayserling's "Christopher Columbus and the
Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries."
Translated from the German by Charles Gross, Ph. D., Assistant
Professor of History in Harvard College. New York, 1894.
SKETCHES OF JEWISH LOYALTY, BRAVERY AND PATRIOTISM IN THE SOUTH
AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE WEST INDIES.
BY GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT, New York City.
I
SERVICES RENDERED TO THE DUTCH BY THE JEWS OF BRAZIL (1623-44).
In 1624, when the Dutch conquered Brazil, several Jews, desirous of
joining their co-believers in the newly acquired Dutch dominions, where
our brethren flourished for many decades previously in the guise of New
Christians or Marranos, enlisted in the Hollandish fleet as volunteers.
Encouraged by this show of patriotism on the part of their newly
arrived co-religionists, who, under the reign of the United Provinces,
enjoyed all the blessings of peace and equality, many _Nuevos
Christianos_ openly renounced their sham faith and re-avowed Judaism,
happy once more to breathe the air of freedom without suffering
persecution. It is said that the Jewish soldiers in the navy displayed
so much zeal and courage in the taking possession of Brazil that the
government protected them ever after.[30] Even before putting to sea,
remarks a French historian of Brazil,[31] the Dutch admirals obtained
much useful information concerning the political situation of Brazil,
from the Israelites there settled, and who were all eager to remain, or
rather, to pass over to the Dutch, whose liberal spirit and religious
tolerance seemed much more inviting to them than the cruel sceptre
of Spain or Portugal. This is furthermore corroborated by another
(English) writer, Mr. Robert G. Watson, in his excellent work: _Spanish
and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period_ (London,
1884), Vol. II, p. 1, where we read: "The religious intolerance from
which the Dutch had themselves so terribly suffered at the hands of
their Spanish rulers had taught them to be tolerant in such matters
towards others, _and to this circumstance they were now (1623-24)
indebted for much valuable information respecting Brazil, which they
received from the Jews who had taken refuge amongst them_."
It is apparent from these and other items to be mentioned later that
the Jews rendered not only military and naval service to the Dutch in
their struggle against Portugal in Brazil, but diplomatic counsel of
no little weight, by means of which Holland could conquer the American
possessions and establish herself most firmly there. The inhabitants
of Brazil at about that time (1623-38) were not very yielding. In fact
R. Southey, the reliable and painstaking historian, says[32] that "The
Portuguese were held in subjection only by fear, but many Portuguese
Jews from Holland had taken their abode in a country where they could
speak their own language as well as enjoy their own religion. _These
were excellent subjects_; they exercised the charitable industry of
their original nation secure of enjoying its fruits under a free
government." The Dutch, upon taking possession of Brazil, issued a
proclamation, no doubt with a view of attracting the Jews, whose
accession would prove beneficial to the interests of the government,
whereby they offered full possession of their property, and freedom
of worship to all such as would submit. Amongst those who were thus
brought under Dutch rule were _two hundred Jews_. (cf. Watson, _l. c._,
II, p. 2.) This liberal charter of religious freedom lasted as long as
the Dutch supremacy until the Portuguese re-conquest of Brazil in 1654,
with more or less privileges, according to the whim of the public whose
dictates even the government had to obey, as we may see from what took
place in 1638, as recorded by Southey (_l. c._, Vol. I, p. 566): "Some
of the Portuguese-Brazilians also, gladly throwing off the mask which
they had so long been compelled to wear, joined their brethren in the
synagogue. The open joy with which they now celebrated their ceremonies
attracted too much notice; it excited horror in Catholics, and _even
the Dutch themselves_, less liberal than their laws, pretended that the
toleration of Holland did not extend to Brazil; the senate conceded
to, and perhaps partook of the popular feeling, and hence arose the
edict, by which the Jews were ordered to perform their rites more in
private."[33]
Under Count Maurice's gentle reign our co-religionists lived in
peace and they appear to have benefited by this temporary respite
and acquired much wealth, for we find on record a petition from the
Jews of Mauritsstad, dated May 1, 1642, offering an annual present
of 3000 florins to Count Maurice if he would be induced to remain as
their Governor in Brazil.[34] In 1642, at the urgent invitation of
their co-religionists (cf. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 278), 600 Jews, headed
by Moses Raphael de Aguilar and Ishac Aboab de Fonseca, came from
Amsterdam[35] and formed a prosperous colony in Recife, which gave
promise of glorious development, had not the wars between Holland
and Portugal, in which our brethren took noble part, destroyed their
hopes. In 1642, it must be noted, they again were permitted to worship
publicly, a privilege which did not remain unrewarded, for we soon hear
of certain state services rendered by the Jews in 1644 and later, when
many mean conspiracies against the government were afoot, concocted,
no doubt by the Portuguese under Dutch rule. Watson (_Spanish and
Portuguese South America_, etc., London, 1884, Vol. II, p. 47) says:
"At length, however, the time came when his (the chief conspirator's,
Fernandes) practices could no longer be ignored by the government, _who
were set on their guard chiefly by the Jews_. These are certainly not
to be blamed for wishing a continuance of the _status quo_; since, in
the event of an outbreak, they were certain to be plundered by both
parties with complete impartiality; whilst, in the event of victory
on the part of the Portuguese, they had before them the image of the
fiendish agents of the Inquisition," which, as we have elsewhere
shown,[36] they had good reason to fear. We read later (_l. c._, p. 48)
that Fernandes could not be captured and summoned troops. Many obeyed
the call and fell upon such Dutchmen and Jews as happened to be within
their reach.
The loyalty of the Jews in the matter of revealing the various
state conspiracies is thus alluded to by Pieter Marinus Netscher in
his admirable work _Les Hollandais au Brésil_, (La Haye, 1853), p.
145: "Fortunately, national and religious fanaticism did not smother
the sentiments of humanity and justice in the hearts of all the
conspirators. Two Portuguese [Jews?] Sebastian Carvalho and Fernando
Vale, with _five Jews_, fearing that their lives and fortunes were
at stake, resolved to disclose the secret of the plot to the Grand
Council.[37] Another conspiracy was brought to light and denounced
to the government by a Jew named _Moise Accoignes_, who, against
his will, was forced to become an accessory to the plot.[38] He is
no doubt alluded to by Prof. H. Graetz, who, in his _History of the
Jews_ (English version, Philadelphia, 1895, Vol. IV, p. 693. Jewish
Publication Society of America) writes: "Of course, the Brazilian Jews
enjoyed perfect equality of rights with other citizens, _for they
rendered the Dutch essential services as advisers and warriors_. When
the native Portuguese, who bore the yoke of the Dutch impatiently,
formed a conspiracy to get rid of the Dutch authorities at a banquet
in the capital, and attack the colony bereft of government [?], _a
Jew gave warning, and_ _saved the colony from certain destruction._"
Southey, whom at the present writing we are unable to consult, (cf. his
_History of Brazil_, Vol. II, pp. 60-70), and Koenen, also chronicle
the timely intervention of a faithful Israelite,[39] who, at the risk
of his life, for the conspirators would not have scrupled to put him
out of the way, informed the authorities of the impending calamity to
the state.
We also know that a Jew in Lisbon proved instrumental in intercepting
some official papers in reference to the revolt in Brazil.[40]
The execution of one, Jacob Rabbi, an agent of Holland, who must have
been a Jew, is mentioned by Netscher in the following terms: "... The
cause of this desertion [from the Portuguese troops?] was that the
Lieutenant-Colonel, Garstman, had been sufficiently impolitic to put to
death (in 1645 or 1646?) for a real or supposed crime, a certain Jacob
Rabbi, German by birth, of a ferocious character. He had lived for many
years among the savages as agent of the Hollandish government."[41]
It is evident that the Dutch Government and especially the Governor,
Count Maurice de Nassau, was not backward in appreciating the services
of the Jews. An ordinance from the States-General reads:
"... The persons, goods and rights of the Jews in Brazil are taken
under the special protection of the Government, because of the fidelity
and courage which that nation had on every occasion displayed toward
the said Government."[42]
II.
BRAVE DEFENSE OF THE JEWS IN BRAZIL IN 1645-1646.
The best evidence of Jewish loyalty to their lenient Dutch rulers was
given at a time when the Hollandish Government was contending with the
Portuguese for the possession of Brazil. The numerous conspiracies
years previous were only a foretaste of what followed and when at last,
in the year 1645, war actually broke out, our co-religionists lost no
time in siding with their generous patrons, regardless of consequences.
Among those that distinguished themselves for their noble patriotism
and whose co-operation in behalf of the needy and distressed won all
hearts, was a wealthy Israelite, Abraham Coen by name, whose fame is
recognized in the following verses written in his honor by one of
the greatest Portuguese Jewish poets of Holland, Don Miguel Levi de
Barrios, who visited Cayenne[43] in 1660 and remained there until 1662:
_Abraham Coen en el Brasil remoto_
del principe Mauricio halló el agrado
prospero y noble, y oy del Rey Empireo
goço la luz en ideal palacio.
_Cerco al Brasil el luso balicoso
en nueve años continuos, que empeçaron
en el de mil seiscientos y quarenta
y cinco, contra el valeroso Holandio._
Y en todos con magnanima grandeza
el grande Abraham Coen sustento à quantos
Judios y Cristianos de su auxilio
en la miseria atroz necesitaron.
_Entonces los Señoras del Supremo
Consejo sobre el Pueblo Brasiliano
vieron del fiel Coen la piedad grande._[44]
Dr. Hahn informs us that "in the perilous times of 1645 and 1648 great
services were rendered to the government by the Portuguese family of
Cohen in furnishing ammunition and provisions."[45]
The Portuguese besieged Recife, near Pernambuco, which boasted of
a large Jewish population (among them several fine scholars: David
Senior Coronel, Dr. Abraham de Mercado, Jahacob Mucate, Ishac Castanho
and others)[46] and the inhabitants thus deprived of every possible
communication, endured much suffering. The Jews, encouraged by their
learned and eloquent Rabbi Isaac Aboab, the friend of Menasse ben
Israel, bore their tribulations bravely, and though almost famished for
want of nourishment, defended the fort with such remarkable skill and
heroism, as to evoke the praise and gratitude of the Government. Had
it not been for the dauntless resistance offered by them, the garrison
would have been compelled to surrender.
Aboab commemorated his thrilling experiences of war in the
introductory chapter of his Hebrew version of Abraham Cohen Herrera's
_Porta Coeli_ (Sha'ar Ha'shamayîm) which he began to translate in
June, 1655 (22nd of Siwan 5415). Besides this, he wrote nine years
before (anno 1646) a poetical account of the siege in a work entitled
_Secher Rab;[47] Prayers and Confessions and Supplications, which were
composed for appealing to God in his trouble and in the distress of
the Congregation, when the troops of Portugal overwhelmed them during
their sojourn in Brazil in the year 5406 [1646]. And I have caused the
wonderful works of God to be remembered in songs and praises, when
he released them from the hands of their enemies._ It is written in
Hebrew. The Ms. is still extant in Amsterdam, in possession of the
"Arbol de las Vidas" Theological Society.[48] The part played by the
Jews in the defense of the colony is described by eminent Jewish and
Christian historians.[49] Dr. Kayserling's and Prof. Graetz's accounts
are worth citing _in extenso_. The former, who is engaged in copying
this earliest specimens of American Jewish literature, the work of
Isaac Aboab, for the American Jewish Historical Society, writes as
follows: "Aboab became _Chacham_ (Chief) of the congregation in
Recife, which would have become one of the largest and richest, had
it not been hindered in its development by the disturbances of war;
it was dissolved after a short existence. The new settlers enjoyed
tranquility only for a few years, for already in 1645 the sanguinary
struggles, for the possession of the colony, between the Portuguese
and the Hollanders began. The Jews stood faithfully on the side of the
Hollanders, who had granted them perfect equality, and distinguished
themselves by courage and heroism, as well as by succor to the
distressed. During the war Abraham Coen, a rich and high-minded man of
Amsterdam, who was in great favor with Duke Moritz of Nassau, supported
Jews and Christians in such a magnanimous way that the Supreme Council
of the Brazilian people looked with admiration at the great work of
mercy. Isaac Aboab faithfully discharged the duties of his office; he
ordered days of fasting and prayer, and his fiery speeches encouraged
his co-religionists to perseverance and devotion. It was a fierce
struggle of nine years which brought much suffering on the Jews.
Recife was besieged and the garrison decimated by hunger. 'Many of the
Jewish immigrants were killed by the enemy, many died of hunger. The
remainder were exposed to death from similar causes. Those who had been
accustomed to delicacies were glad to be able to satisfy their hunger
with dry bread; soon they could not obtain even this; they were in want
of everything, and were preserved alive as by a miracle.'"
Prof. Graetz, still more explicit, writes to the following effect: "In
1646, when open war broke out between the Portuguese and the Dutch,
and the garrison of Recife, exhausted by famine, was on the point of
surrendering unconditionally, the Jews encouraged the governor to brave
resistance. A fanatical war of race and religion between the Portuguese
and the Dutch devastated fair Brazil, and a famine ensued. The Jews
vied with the Dutch in suffering and bravery. Isaac Aboab, the Chacham
of the Brazil community, paints the suffering of the war, which he
himself endured, in lurid colors: 'Volumes would not suffice to relate
our miseries. The enemy spread over field and wood, seeking here for
booty and there for life. Many of us died, sword in hand, others from
want; they now rest in cold earth. We survivors were exposed to death
in every form; those accustomed to luxuries were glad to seize mouldy
bread to stay their hunger.'
"At last, the States-General were compelled by European wars to
surrender the colony to the Portuguese. The devoted zeal of the
Jews for the political welfare of the Dutch was a firm band, never
afterwards dissolved, between them and the Republic. The toleration and
equal position of Jews in the Netherlands were ensured forever."
Southey relates (_History of Brazil_, Vol. II, p. 241; _apud_ Koenen's
_Geschiedenis_, p. 281), that when the Dutch in Recife were besieged
the second time,[50] the Jews manifested much courage and bravery in
its defense. One of the Pintos (Jewish stock also in Surinam, where
Isaac Pinto, a member of this family, likewise displayed zeal and
heroism in resisting the enemy), is said to have manned the fort _Dos
Affrogados_ single handed, until, overwhelmed by superior force, he was
compelled to surrender.
"In the wars of the Dutch against the Spaniards," says Dr. A. Hahn,
"one of the Pintos was killed at his post while bravely defending one
of the fortresses." His death is nowhere else recorded, however.[51]
The supremacy of the United Provinces now came to an end in America.
On the 23d of January, 1654, Recife, together with the neighboring
cities of Mauritsstad, Parayba, Itamarica, Seara, and other Hollandish
possessions, was ceded to the Portuguese conquerors, with the condition
that a general amnesty be granted. (Koenen, _l. c._, p. 282). Although,
as Netscher[52] remarks, this stipulation was agreed upon, and the
Jews, who were loyal supporters of Holland, were promised every
consideration, the Portuguese governor, heeding the treacherous advice
of jealous persons, ordered the Jews to quit Brazil at once. It must be
admitted, in justice to Portugal, that he treated them kindly, inasmuch
as he placed at their disposal sixteen vessels to carry them and their
property anywhere they chose, and furnished them with passports and
safeguards. Thus after a residence of several decades, Aboab, Aguilar,
the Nassys, Pereiras, the Mezas, Abraham de Castro, Josua Sarfati, both
surnamed _el Brasil_,[53] returned to Amsterdam, and many others went
to New York, where they formed the nucleus of a prosperous colony. They
arrived in safety, although one of their vessels, attacked by pirates,
was rescued by the French and escorted to New Holland.[54]
III.
SAMUEL NASSY OF SURINAM.
Not all the Jews, who were by royal order expelled from Brazil in 1654,
when the Dutch possessions in South America were ceded to Portugal,
left their adopted country, where they, for a brief span of years
enjoyed all the privileges of their fellowmen. Many were so much
attached to American soil that they dared remain, despite the edict of
banishment, in Brazil and elsewhere.
In Dutch Guiana, a thrifty colony was formed as early as 1644,[55]
two years after the influx and settlement of Amsterdam Jews in Brazil
under Aboab and Aguilar. These were undoubtedly the original colonists
of Brazil. This colony soon increased by a second settlement of
Jews hailing, likewise, from Brazil, who were undoubtedly persuaded
to migrate thither by their Dutch co-religionists in Cayenne. The
President of the West Indian Company, recognizing their influence as
a commercial and political body, granted a most liberal charter of
rights[56] in 1659 (September 12th), wherein freedom of thought, and
liberty of conscience and worship were duly accorded to them through
their able representative, David Nassy, a native Brazilian, who, by
force of his personality, culture and intelligence, was destined to
play a most important part in the political and social development of
this and other colonies subsequently formed in the Guianas. So enticing
was this generous programme, that already in the following year, 1660,
152 Jews of both sexes,[57] embarked at Livorno, Italy,[58] bound for
the land of freedom, where they arrived in the ship _Monte del Cisne_,
having set sail on the memorable 9th day of Ab (August) 1660, in order
to build up their temple under more favorable auspices in another
hemisphere.[59]
Among their number was the famous Spanish poet and historian De
Barrios (see above), to whom we owe many important items of early
American Jewish history. His visit to America was not a happy one,
for shortly after his arrival his wife, Deborah, died in Tabago (West
Indies).[60]
The continuous wars between Holland and Portugal caused the colonists
no little grief and annoyance. The frequent devastations of the French,
too, who were equally zealous and greedy for conquest, gave them so
much anxiety that they decided to transplant the colony to Surinam--a
plan which was carried out on May 15th, 1664.[61]
As the writer is engaged in compiling an extensive work on the Jews
of Surinam he refrains now from entering into details concerning their
early career. Suffice it to say that the spirit of their Dutch masters
followed them thenceforth for more than a century and a half. The
English government then ruling the colony, true to their traditional
standard of tolerance ever since the days of Cromwell and Menasseh
ben Israel, endowed them with equal civil rights and granted them not
only full exercise of their religion, but excused them from public and
military service on the Sabbath day. The document is a precious chapter
in the history of religious liberty in America. It was published
recently by the present writer.[62] Without further prolegomena, we
desire to introduce one of the members of the famous family of Nassy,
all of whom fully deserved the distinction of nobility implied in their
name,[63] for their bravery and statesmanship.
History records the estimable services of Samuel Nassy, who but for
some unlucky circumstance would have occupied the highest official
position in Surinam. De Barrios, who probably knew him personally,
remembers him in the following words: "_Del pueblo de Sariñam Samuel
Nasi (sic) Señorea El coraçon con los dones y et estudio con la
ciencia._"[64] Dr. Kayserling, in a recent article says: "Of great
influence upon the free development of the colony, as on the condition
of the Jewish inhabitants, was the activity of Samuel Nasi, a talented
and scientifically trained man, who is designated as 'Citizens'
Captain,' and was a candidate for the position of governor."[65] It is
said that Governor Aerssens, with whom the Jews of Surinam had some
little difficulty,[66] sealed a treaty of peace with the Indians, who
molested the early settlers quite often, and in order to make it of
a more durable character, he formed an alliance with the chieftain's
daughter.[67] While he lived there was no disturbance at all, but
almost immediately after his death, the savage tribes returned to their
former aggressive attitude and made a furious onslaught on the colony.
With the help of the Jewish inhabitants, who were headed by Captain
Samuel Nassy, the Indians were promptly repulsed.[68]
Nassy soon acquired influence and prominence among his co-religionists
in particular. He strove to introduce a few necessary reforms in
ritual and ceremony--the first traces of the reform movement in
America--especially in the abrogation of certain festivals which were
perhaps too burdensome to the community. It seems, however, that in
this he met with considerable opposition, although he had the sanction
and support of the Rabbis in Amsterdam, with whom he corresponded.[69]
The authority with which he was vested by reason of his executive
ability and earnest zeal soon diminished with the arrival of the
newly appointed governor, Heer Van Scherpenhuizen, the successor of
Aerssens,[70] a fact which tended much to embitter his days and aroused
sharp controversy between him and his rival. He had the satisfaction of
being instrumental in his recall soon after his accession.[71]
Nassy flattered himself that his personal influence was necessary
to the welfare and prosperity of the colony. And he was right. The
Jews relied so implicitly upon his counsels and were so certain that
he would be proclaimed governor, for he enjoyed the esteem of Jew
and Gentile alike, that it was an unpleasant shock to them all when
quite another person, comparatively unknown, was chosen in his stead.
It is, therefore, not surprising that Samuel Nassy, seeing the loss
of his public prestige, thought fit to betake himself to Amsterdam,
unwilling to remain in a country which owed all its present affluence
to his sterling honesty and wise management, and was yet so slow in
showing its gratitude to the able statesman. His disappointment and
dissatisfaction in not succeeding Heer Van Sommelsdyk as governor
infected the whole Jewish community. The rupture which eventually
followed between the Jews and Governor Scherpenhuizen resulted in the
latter's removal.[72] This was chiefly occasioned by the unfriendly
treatment of the Jews at the governor's hands, who, seeing in them only
the partisans of his former rival, took care to harass them with unjust
taxation. This exasperated them so much that they lodged a complaint
against him with Baron de Belmonte and their "Citizens' Captain" Samuel
Nassy, both in Amsterdam, and demanded the immediate recall of their
prejudiced governor from the State-Council. Strangely enough, Nassy's
influence was still powerful, for he was replaced, in 1696, by another
governor, Paulus van der Veen by name, shortly after the petition was
filed. Scherpenhuizen embarked for Holland. Having been taken prisoner
by the French on his way thither, he arrived there only after several
months. Hardly had he landed at Amsterdam, before he was arraigned by
Samuel Nassy before the civil court and he was compelled to vindicate
his conduct.[73] The record of that trial and defense, in which Nassy
took a leading part, is still extant, published in 1697.[74]
IV.
DEFENSE OF THE JEWS IN SURINAM AGAINST THE FRENCH IN 1689 AND 1712.
The loyalty of the Jews to their new settlement is unparalleled in
American history. Every emergency found them ready to show their
allegiance to Holland. Thus, when in 1689, a French fleet, under
Admiral Cassard, made a sudden attack on the colony, they were met with
brave resistance by the Jews. Van Chattillon, son of the previous
governor, displayed great heroism on this occasion.[75] Two Dutch
historians make mention of the valor of the Jews. Verburg and Fr. Holf.
Merkurius relate in their _Histories of the East and West Indies_,
that "after the death of Governor Aersen (_sic_) and the arrival of
the new representative Scherpenhuizen, word was received that a French
fleet was nearing Surinam. All soldiers and sailors were ordered out
and summoned to appear at the fort. The call was obeyed by the Jews,
of whom there were many in Surinam, and despite the fact that it was
a Sabbath day, they fought valiantly for their colony. Two letters
eulogizing their action in the matter were sent to the Society _Felix
Libertate_, by a worthy citizen, H. L. Bromet, who lived for many years
in Surinam."[76]
The colony, unmolested by strife and war, soon began to thrive and
prosper. Their respite was of short duration, however, for already in
in 1712, Admiral Cassard, at the head of another powerful squadron
advanced upon the settlement. A fierce attack made in June, 1712,
was manfully repulsed. In October of the same year, Cassard's fleet
again appeared on the coast, and endeavored to sail up the Commawine
River. The inhabitants, and particularly the Jews, under Captain Isaac
Pinto[77] offered a stubborn resistance, and although they fought
valiantly, they could not prevent the enemy from landing, bombarding
the city of Paramaribo, and devastating the country. The treaty of
Utrecht sealed soon after between the French and Dutch put an end to
these vagaries.[78]
A recent writer on American Jewish history says: "In the war against
the French in 1689, members of the families Pinto da Fonsera (read
_Fonseca_), Arias, Naar, De Brito and D'Avilar fought valiantly."[79]
V.
SUPPRESSION OF NEGRO-REVOLTS BY THE JEWS OF SURINAM (1690-1772.)
Hardly were the colonists freed from the depredations of the French
before danger menaced them from another direction. An anonymous writer,
cited by Hannah Adams,[80] says: "The great check to the prosperity of
Surinam has arisen from the inhabitants being exposed to the invasion
and lawlessness of the Maroons, or runaway negroes, who have formed
several communities in the inaccessible parts of the woods, and were
the most implacable and cruel enemies of the colonists. _The Jewish
militia have often signalized themselves against them, and have been
of great use to the colony_; one-third of whom were of this (Jewish)
nation."
Already in the year 1690 the negro slaves on the plantation of a
wealthy Jewish landowner, _Machado_, rebelled against their master and
murdered him. Governor Scharphuizen, who entertained bitter feelings
against the Jews, refused to lend them the slightest assistance, so
that they were thrown entirely upon their own resources.[81] More than
once the Jews, exasperated by the governor's neglect, took matters
into their own hands, and defended themselves with great success. The
negroes, nothing daunted by this spirited show of resistance assumed
a still more threatening attitude, their numbers, and hence their
audacity, increasing more and more each day. The natives knowing
full well that their advantage lay in their endurance of climate and
similar local circumstances, understood how to utilize the fact to
their benefit, and during the following years harassed the colony very
much. This state of affairs, however, could not last long. In 1730 a
desperate effort was made by the Jewish militia, which was determined
to punish the slaves, under the lead of an under-officer followed by
fourteen volunteers and thirty-six negroes. They exhibited no little
courage and bravery in the taking possession and guard of an important
post situated in the vicinity of the devastated negro villages.[82]
This determined stand of the Jews did not, by any means, intimidate
the lawless hordes who were intent upon rebellion and plunder. On the
contrary it only roused their anger all the more. In 1731 it was again
deemed imperative to check their depredations. The Citizens' Captain
_Boeyé_ and the spirited David Nassy, (who more than any one else
before and after him worked for the prosperity of Surinam) were chosen
leaders of this campaign. David Nassy is described by historians as
a man of power and integrity. He is said to have drilled the negro
slaves on his plantation so thoroughly for such enterprises, that his
co-operation was of the utmost necessity. He was the nephew of David
Nassy who first settled in Surinam and received (in 1659), the famous
charter of privileges to settle in Cayenne.[83] (See above.) It seems
that he entertained friendly relations with his negro slaves who, in
1717 were offered perfect freedom by the Political Council (_Raad van
Politie_) if they volunteered to fight against the Maroons, who made
frequent assaults on the colonists. Already in the year 1718, Nassy
enlisted in the Jewish Corps, commanded by Captain _Jacob D'Avilar_,
and distinguished himself in a combat of a similar nature. So impetuous
and brave was he in battle that he was speedily promoted from a regular
to the office of Lieutenant, and later to that of Captain of the Jewish
Citizens' Company (_Kapitein der Joodsche burger compagnie_). He was,
therefore, well qualified by dint of personal bravery and diplomatic
skill to take so important a part in the expedition against the Maroons.
In the present campaign he was not less fortunate and heroic.
Undaunted by the treacherous trick of Boeyé, who abandoned him in the
middle of the fray, he attacked the foe in their own retreats, killed
several and took as many more prisoners. Boeyé, who was his envious
rival, fearful perhaps of the consequences of his own cowardice,
accused Nassy of indiscretion and disobedience, but so universal was
the esteem and sympathy felt for the latter, who had before earned
laurels on the field and was thought incapable of such folly, that he
had but little difficulty in proving his innocence. The result was
that Nassy was honorably acquitted, whilst his jealous rival, the real
culprit, was duly punished. He added to his fame most decisively by
this new stroke of bravery and military prowess and had the honor of
being praised and glorified by the Spanish-Jewish poetess _Benvenida
Belmonte_,[84] who composed a fitting eulogy in verse on his deeds of
valor.[85] Nassy was the second South American Jew, whose nobility
of character and state services were commemorated in Spanish-Jewish
literature. (Cp. _supra_, rubric II, on Abraham Coen of Brazil.) His
generalship and scientific tactics were called into requisition about
two decades after his above detailed victory, in another expedition
against the marauding band of negroes, who troubled the peace of the
colony for nearly a century at various intervals. As previously noted,
in the case of Machado, anno 1690, the slaves of another wealthy Jewish
planter, _Manuel Pereira_, rebelled against their master, in 1738,
and, thinking to shake off the yoke of slavery, cruelly murdered him.
Hereupon, _Isaac Arias_, a former officer of the Jewish militia, who
lived in the victim's neighborhood, sent out a detachment of Jewish
volunteers, headed by _David Nassy_ and _Abraham De Brito_, to wreak
vengeance upon the rebels. The troops remained away for six weeks in
the enemy's camp,[86] and it began to be feared that they were utterly
routed and destroyed, when the company returned, bringing with them
the trophies of a most successful onslaught made against the Maroons,
namely six hands severed from fallen negroes, and forty-seven prisoners
of war.
As a reward for their bravery every officer received from the Council
(_Raad_) 75 f. (florins?); every citizen (Jewish regular) 36 f.; each
armed negro 20 f.; and each colored man who was in needy circumstances,
5 f.[87]
Five years later, in 1743, brave old Captain David Nassy, who had
conducted thirty like expeditions against the Maroons, sallied forth
for the last time to fight for his people and, according to some,
to die on the battlefield the death of a hero.[88] This time he
was arrayed against the Creoles, who by reason of their more acute
intelligence and culture (having been long associated with Europeans)
were yet the most dangerous of all their foes. Endowed with a noble
Macabbean spirit, he fell like his ancestor Matathias, in the moment
of victory. It was on the _Day of Atonement_ that the venerable sage
and warrior sallied forth to war. It must have been urgent indeed, for
David Nassy regardless of the solemnity of the festival put himself at
the head of his trusty men, crossed over the Surinam River; penetrated
further inland; pursued the enemy, set their huts ablaze; tore their
fruits out of the ground; killed many on the spot and dragged about
forty slaves along with them as captives. Nassy, who had already passed
his three score years and ten, fell a victim to the treachery of his
foes. It was told him that the negroes had poisoned all the wells in
the village, so that he was compelled to turn homeward, in order to
quench the burning thirst which afflicted him and his troops, without
awaiting the orders of the Council. This most natural step gave his
opponents a good excuse for lodging a complaint against him with the
authorities, who are usually ready to listen to malice and dispute. His
defense was scarcely heard and he was pronounced guilty. Such wanton
ingratitude the good old soldier hardly expected as a reward for his
services for the welfare of his fellowmen. Bitter disappointment and
grief undermined his health. He was seized with fever, and soon after
at the age of seventy, or thereabouts, death released him from his
sufferings. With him died the flower of the Jewish colony, an Israelite
indeed, in whom there was no guile. His co-religionist, _Isaac
Carvalho_, was chosen Captain of the Jewish Citizens' Company, in his
place.[89]
A few years later, a treaty of peace was made with the Western
Maroons, who were getting more and more perilous to the safety of
the colonists. But a new danger threatened them from another side.
In 1749 the Maroons in the east, known as _Tempati (?) Negroes_
(_Tempati-negers_), broke forth in mutiny, plundered a plantation
completely and carried off all the negro slaves who lived there. This
plantation (as in fact all others in Surinam) belonged to a Jewish
landowner, and was called _Auka_. Henceforth the insurrection which
originated there was named after the _Auka-negroes_. Against these
marauders, an expedition, partly under the Christian chief, Rijsdorp,
and partly in command of the Jewish captain, _Moses Naar_, was
organized and dispatched in 1757. It deserves to be mentioned, by the
way, that this was Naar's _seventeenth campaign_ against the Creoles.
The result of this undertaking was likewise favorable. Naar burned down
a whole negro-village, made a number of captives, among them being a
certain Corydon, the leader of the insurrection. For his bravery and
skilful capture he was presented with a worthy gift by the Council.[90]
We are informed by David J. C. Nasi (or Nassy), the third descendant of
the original settler of Surinam, who compiled with other intelligent
men of his age, an exhaustive and comprehensive chronicle of the
Jews in Surinam in French,[91] that already in 1750, _Moses Naar_
and _Gabriel de La Fatte_, in recognition of their active zeal in
suppressing a revolt of the negroes in their colony, were presented
with silver cups and a vote of thanks from the government.[92]
The fame achieved by his co-religionist, _Naar_, so enthused and
electrified the young and ambitious _Isaac Nassy_ that he was eagerly
anticipating another outbreak on the part of the Maroons, in order to
show his courage and reckless heroism. The impetuous youth met with a
noble, but pathetic end:
Thinking that against a well-regulated army, however small, no valor
or charge of the negroes could possibly prevail, he hastily collected
twelve of his followers upon the rumor of their approach; armed his and
their most trusty slaves; provided himself with the barest necessities
of war, sufficient for about ten or twelve days, and pursued the
retreating foe with an ardor which, if imprudent, is at least a virtue
in one so young and war-thirsty. He was, however, suddenly confronted
by a much more considerable number of negroes than he reckoned upon.
His little band stood ground but for a short while. Nassy himself
displayed great bravery, and although severely wounded by a rifle shot
in his right limb, he began to fight with a still more marvelous energy
in order to rally his terrified men and to re-arouse their fleeting
courage. But in vain. He was captured alive by the sanguinary horde and
brutally murdered. Two of their chief officers and twenty soldiers fell
with him on the battlefield.[93]
At last, the authorities saw that it was advisable and imperative
again to make a treaty of peace with the relentless Maroons, or
fugitive negroes, (_gevluchte Negers_) whose ravages for over half a
century spread ruin and terror throughout the land. Accordingly, on
the 23d of May, 1761, peace was established, to last for a good many
years, apparently.[94] It was not long, however, before hostilities
were resumed. In 1772 the State Council found it imperative to call
in the aid of the mother country against the Maroons, who grew more
audacious in proportion as they advanced in culture and education.[95]
The State General, roused to action by the serious state of affairs
in the colony, sent a company of 500 men, under command of Captain
Forgeoud, who had previously shown much courage and ingenuity in
suppressing a revolt of negroes in the Barbary States. Two years
later, a series of military posts was established, beginning from
the _Savannah of the Jews_ to the banks of the Commawine River and
from there to the sea. Forts, strengthened by means of palisades were
constructed from plantation to plantation, and when finally peace was
enforced, the colony was spared from any further molestation at the
hands of the unruly negroes.[96] Koenen, though very fair and just to
the Jews in his _History_, sees fit to reproach them for their unkind
treatment of slaves,[97] which, he opines, was the chief cause of the
rebellion, lasting over seventy years. We are inclined to think that
this rebuke is unwarranted, inasmuch as the rigid Mosaic and Rabbinic
laws regarding them, were always strictly followed by the Jews and
those in Surinam, who had men like the family of Nassy at their head,
could not have trespassed these ordinances. He admitted, however, in
his summary, that the colony in her defense was always deeply indebted
to the Jewish militia, and in social and commercial matters especially
beholden to them, for the Jews were the cultivators of the marshy and
often dangerous soil and the masters of commerce, the chief factors of
the welfare and prosperity of the settlement,[98] since its foundation.
Not desiring to anticipate our conclusions in a larger work, we content
ourselves with saying that nowhere else in the history of America is
such devotion, disinterestedness and loyalty on the part of Jewish
citizens so marked, and let us add, so gratefully recognized as in the
little Dutch Province of Surinam. And nowhere else in the New World did
the Israelites thrive more in culture, learning and religion than in
the _Jewish Savannah_ of Guiana, as their community was called. Small
wonder, then, in view of their attachment to their Hollandish masters,
when we hear that in 1785, on the occasion of the reconsecration of
their synagogue, then 100 years old, the Governor Wichers, with all
the provincial magistrates and other eminent citizens, attended in a
body the impressive ceremonies, which are graphically narrated in a
little volume published by an eye witness.[99] And that two Christian
philo-Semites wrote beautiful verses in Dutch in honor of these
festivities, republished by the writer, elsewhere.[100] Nor does it
now seem strange that the Jews loved to glorify their governors, J.
G. Wichers,[101] Sir Chas. Green,[102] and Abraham De Veer,[103] in
pretty songs and hymns, written in Hollandish and Hebrew. These were
but poetic tokens of their patriotism. As late as 1853, the records
inform us of their prosperity and constantly growing activity and
interest in the colony. In that year we find them in the courts (Ellis,
Juda, Fernandes, and others); among thirteen advocates, notaries,
and procurators, there were seven Jews (Heilbronn, Colaço, Belmonte,
de Granada, Abendañon, etc.); many served in the army as captains,
lieutenants, colonels, majors, and chaplains. In fact they minister
to the public weal in every conceivable capacity.[104] In their hands
the colony still prospers. Recent reports, made by a correspondent of
the _Jewish Chronicle_ in London, are aglow with enthusiasm for the
prosperity of their now thrifty and intelligent colony, and reassure us
of the vigor and tenacity of our faith in that distant land.
FOOTNOTES:
[30] See H. J. Koenen's prize essay, _Geschiedenis der Joden in
Nederland_ (Utrecht, 1843), pp. 277-78: "Machtig breide zich deze
bevolking uit als de Nederlanders omstreeks het jaar 1624 Brazilie
veroverden. Op de Hollandsche vloot hadden verscheiden Joden
vrijwillig dienst genomen, om zich in het te vermeesteren gewest met
hunne geloofsgenooten te vereenigen. Deze ontmoeting, en de voor hen
aanlichtende vrijheid onder Hollandsche Bestuur, maakten, dat vele
Braziliaansche Nieuwe Christenen wederom opentlyk het Jodendom beleden;
en dat zij eerlang eene tweede volkplanting hunner geloofsgenooten te
Cayenne stichteden, waar David Nassi, een geboren Braziliaan, zich met
goedkeuring der West-Indische Compagnie nederzette. Inmiddels hadden de
Joden, die met 's lands vloot in 1624 naar Brazilie overgestoken waren
en de Nederlanders dat land hadden helpen vermeesteren, aan hunne te
Amsterdam woonachtige broederen geschreven, en hen uitgenoodigd om zich
in het nieuw veroverde gewest op den pas ontgonnen koophandel te komen
toeleggen; waartoe eene ruime gelegendheid was, sedert de Hollanders,
na het sluiten van eenen wapenstilstand met de Portugezen, eene
publicatie hadden afgekondigd, dat het den Joden voortaan volkomen zoude
vrijstaan, zich in Brazilie te vestigen, etc."
We have copied this in full, as Koenen, whom recent historians all
follow, is the only authentic source, although in this case no
authorities are given. This point, and others in connection with the
early Jewish settlements in Brazil were discussed by the present writer
in two papers: _Early Jewish Literature in America_, in _Publications
of the American Jewish Historical Society_ (= _P. A. J. H. S._), No. 3
(1895), pp. 103-47 (cf. esp. pp. 104, 105, 134-40) and _Jewish Martyrs
of the Inquisition in South America_, to appear simultaneously with
this volume, in the same place, No. 4.
[31] See Pieter Marinus Netscher's _Les Hollandais au Brésil, Notice
Historique sur les Pays-Bas et le Brésil au XVII^e siècle_ (La Haye,
1853), p. 14: "Avant de mettre en mer (1623?), les amiraux Hollandais
obtinrent sur la situation politique du Brésil les informations les
plus utiles _par l'intermédiaire des Juifs_ qui s'y étaient établis, et
qui presque tous, désiraient avec ardeur passer sous le gouvernement
des Provinces-Unies, à cause de sa tolérance en matière de religion."
Cf. also De Beauchamp's _Histoire du Brésil_, vol. II, p. 159;
Southey's _History of Brazil_ (2nd ed.) I, pp. 477, 479, 495, supplem.
note 135; vol. II, p. 241; Judge Daly's _Settlement of the Jews in
North America_ (2nd ed. New York, 1893) p. XVII.
[32] _History of Brazil_ (London, 1810), Vol. I, p. 566; cf. also the
quotation in R. G. Watson's _Spanish and Portuguese South America_,
etc., _op. cit._, Vol. II, p. 29.
[33] See also Netscher's _Les Hollandais au Brésil_, etc., (La Haye,
1853), p. 94: "Les synagogues furent fermées, et les Juifs durent se
borner à célébrer leur culte dans l'intérieur des maisons. Le mal fut
d'autant plus sensible qu'un grand nombre de commerçants respectables
et d'autres habitants du Brésil-Hollandais étaient des Juifs, qui
depuis nombre d'années s'étaient réfugiés au Recife ou qui récemment
y avaient été attirés par la tolérance du comte Maurice." Cf. also
_ibid._, pp. 128, 202, note 82; and Judge Daly's work, op. cit., p. 6.
On the subject of religious freedom enjoyed by Jews in Brazil, more at
another time.
[34] Cf. Netscher's work, _op. cit._, p. 127. The document is preserved
in _Le rapport détaillé de Tolner, contresigné par le Comte, avec
tous les appendices, se trouve aux Arch. du Roy., Liasse Ind. Occ.,
1641-1644_. The contents of this letter will be communicated elsewhere.
[35] See Dr. M. Kayserling's article in _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3,
(1895), p. 14 sq. Geo. A. Kohut, _ibid._, pp. 103, 105, 137 sq.
[36] Proofs for these statements may be found in my study on _The
Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America, P. A. J. H. S._,
No. 4, (1895.)
[37] We give the text in full: "Heureusement le fanatisme national et
religieux n'avait pas étouffé les sentiments d'humanité et de loyauté
dans les coeurs de tous les conjurés. Deux Portugais, Sébastian
Carvalho et Fernando Vale, _avec cinq Juifs_, craignant d'ailleurs
aussi pour leurs jours et leur fortune, se décidèrent en commun à
révéler le secrèt de la conspiration au grand conseil."
[38] Cf. Montanus Arnoldus, _De nieuwe en onbekende wereld of
beschrijving van Amerika en 't Zuidland_, Amsterdam, 1671, fol. 81;
Netscher, _l. c._, p. 144, says: "_Un Juif, Moise Accoignes_, qu'on
avait forcé à prendre part à cette conspiration le dénonça au grand
conseil." N. G. van Kampen, in his _Geschichte der Niederlande_, vol.
II, p. 118 and Frankel in _Monatsschrift_, vol. XII (1863) p. 323-324,
record, that the ringleader in this conspiracy was Joan Fernandes
Víníra (?), who intended to poison the government officials at a dinner
given at his own home, and the plot would have succeeded had not a Jew
raised the alarm.
[39] Cf. _Geschiedenis der Joden_, p. 279: "De terugroeping van Johan
Maurits, wiens edele afkomst en schitterende eigenschappen zelfs den
Portugezen eerbied inboezemden, en wiens ongelukkige opvolgers,
meestal kooplieden (merchants), leden de Westindische Maatschappij,
door hunne bekrompenheid, hebzucht en onmenschelijkheid algemeenen
afkeer verwekten, deed onder de Portugesche ingezetenen een sluw
beraamde zamenzwering tegen de Hollanders ontstaan, die op het punt was
van te gelukken, _toen een Joodsche geneesheer_ haar door het schrijven
van een naamloozen brief aan den dag bracht," etc.
[40] Netscher, _l. c._ p. 158.: "... Mais on parvint enfin en Hollande,
à se procurer, par un Juif qui demeurait à Lisbonne, le moyen
d'intercepter quelques lettres du roi, qui prouvèrent au soulèvement
dans le Brésil." (Ces lettres se trouvent aux Arch du Roy., Liasse Ind.
Occ. 1647 et 1648.)
[41] Cf. _ibid_., _l. c._, p. 154; See also _Lettre de Justif. de
Garstman aux Etats-généraux en date du 27 Septembre, 1646_. Arch. du
Roy., Liasse Ind. Occ. 1645 et 1646.
[42] Cf. Dr. A. Hahu, in _American Jews' Annual_ for 1886-1887, p. 35;
see also Isaac de Costa, _Israel und die Voelker_ (Frankfort a. M.,
1855), p. 319; and Dr. Z. Frankel, in his _Monatsschrift_, vol. XII,
(1863), p. 323.
[43] Cf. Kayserling's _Sephardim, Romanische Poesien der Juden in
Spanien_ (Leipzig 1859) p. 266; _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 18.
[44] _P. A. J. H. S._, _l. c._, p. 15, note. Jacob Coen, Abraham's
eldest son, was afterwards appointed "Contador Mayor," Receiver-General
of Duke Moritz of Nassau. Cf. _ib. l. c._
[45] Cf. _American Jews' Annual_ for 1886-1887, p. 35; Isaac de Costa,
_l. c._, p. 318; see also Hon. Oscar S. Straus's address in _P. A. J.
H. S._, No. 3, p 3.
[46] See Kayserling in _P. A. J. H. S._, _l. c._, p. 14; Graetz,
_History of the Jews_ (Engl. transl.) vol. IV, p. 693.
[47] See full particulars concerning this work in our study on _Early
Jewish Literature in America_, _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, pp. 105, 106,
139, No. 9, and Dr. Kayserling's paper, _ibid. l. c._, p. 16.
[48] Cf. _l. c._, p. 16, No. 3.
[49] Cf. Van Kampen, _Geschichte der Niederlande_, vol. II, p. 120;
_apud_ Frankel, _Monatsschrift_, vol. XII (1863), p. 324; Koenen's
_Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland_ (Utrecht, 1843) p. 280 sq.; Isaac
da Costa, _Israel und die Voelker_ (Germ. ed. by K. Mann, Frankfort,
a. M., 1855) p. 318 ff.; Graetz's _History_, _l. c._, p. 693-4;
Kayserling, _ib._, _l. c._, pp. 17-18.
[50] Cf. Southey's _History of Brazil_, Vol. II, pp. 202-230; Van
Kampen, _Geschichte der Niederlande_, Vol. II, pp. 120-122; also the
same writer's _Geschiedenis der Nederlanders buiten Europa_; Isaac de
Costa, _op. cit._, p. 319.
[51] See the _American Jews' Annual_ for 1886-1887, p. 35.
[52] _Les Hollandais au Brésil_, p. 163, _ad ann._ 1653-1654: "Une
amnistie pleine et entière était accordée aux Portugais et aux Juifs,
qui avaient pris cause pour le gouvernement Hollandais, et les Juifs
et autres personnes non-catholiques qui resteraient au Brésil y
seraient traités de la meme manière, qu'au Portugal (ce qui cachait une
arriere-pensée digne de l'intolérance réligieuse de ces jours-là)." Here
he adds a note which is hardly correct: "Aujourdhui il ne se trouvent
presque pas des Juifs au Brésil."
[53] Cf. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 282; Kayserling, _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3,
p. 17.
[54] See the _Measseph_ for 1784; _ap._ Jost, _Geschichte der
Israeliten_, Vol. VIII, pp. 241-242; Da Costa, _Israel und Die
Voelker_, _l. c._, pp. 321-322; Dr. Hahn in _The American Jews' Annual_
(1886-1887) p. 36; Rev. E. M. Myers' _The Centurial_ (New York, 1890),
p. 105; _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 2, p. 99. More fully in our paper on
_Early Jewish Literature in America_, _l. c._, p. 138-139.
[55] Cf. Koenen's _Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland_, p. 283; Dr.
M. Kayserling, _Sephardim, Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien_,
(Leipzig, 1859), p. 265.
[56] The Dutch text of this valuable document is published in the
_Essai Historique sur la Colonie Surinam_, Paramaribo 1788 [Amsterdam
1791], Vol. II, pp. 113-122 and in Koenen's work on the _History of the
Jews in Holland_, _l. c._, pp. 460-466. The present writer intends to
reprint the original text with an English translation in the _P. A. J.
H. S._; cf. his paper on _Early Jewish Literature in America_ in the
_Publications_ No. 3 (1895), p. 104, 136, 137.
[57] Cf. Kayserling, _Sephardim_, etc., _l. c._, p. 266; his paper on
the _Earliest Rabbis and Jewish Writers in America_, in _P. A. J. H.
S._, No. 3, p. 18; Koenen, _l. c._, pp. 283-284.
[58] From this it would appear that the Jews in South America were
corresponding and perhaps commercially connected with their brethren in
Italy. We have elsewhere proven that the Marranos in Hispañiola were
carrying on an extensive trade between various large sea-ports of Italy
(see our forthcoming paper on _The Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in
South America_, to appear in _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 4, 1895), and that
the Jews of Brazil as early as 1636 wrote to Rabbi Chayim Sabbathai, of
Salonica, in reference to disputes arising in their midst concerning
Jewish customs and ritual. Cf. the notes in our study quoted above, _P.
A. J. H. S._, No. 3, pp. 104-105, 137.
[59] Cf. Barrios' reference at the end of his Opuscula: "En Tisa
beab (sic) sali de Liorne año de 1660 con 152 Almas de Israel en
la nave llamada Monte del Cisne para ir apoblar a Cayana conquista
de Holandeses en America." Koenen, _l. c._, p. 283, numbers only
112 passengers, which is evidently erroneous. Cf. also Kayserling,
_Sephardim_, etc., p. 266, note 1; 355, n. 402; _P. A. J. H. S._, No.
3, p. 18.
[60] Cf. Kayserling, _Sephardim_, _l. c._, and _P. A. J. H. S._, 3, p.
18; see more fully in my paper on a _Contribution to the History of the
Jews in the Islands of St. Thomas, Jamaica and Barbadoes_, to appear in
_P. A. J. H. S._, No. 4.
[61] See Koenen's _Geschiedenis_, p. 284. The date 1654 there given is
probably a misprint for 1664.
[62] Cf. Appendix II to my paper on _Early Jewish Literature in
America_, _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, pp. 145-147, cf. also pp. 125-132
where some points in their history are given.
[63] Dr. E. Carmoly, in his essay on _Don Joseph Nasi, Duc de Naxos_
(Brussels, 1855), traces the relationship of this eminent personage
even to American shores, where the Nasis flourished. The word Nasi in
Hebrew indicates chief, or prince. See also Fuerst's _Orient_, XII
(1851-2), p. 335; Steinschneider's _Hammaskir_, II (1859), p. 33.
[64] See Don Miguel Levi de Barrios, _Arbol de las Vidas_, p. 90; apud
Kayserling, in _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 18, note 2.
[65] Cf. Kayserling, _ib._, _l. c._; and his article: _Die Juden in
Surinam_, published in Frankel's _Monatsschrift für die Geschichte
und Wissenschaft des Judenthums_, Vol. VIII, (1859), p. 207; also Van
Sijpenstein, _Beschrijving van Suriname, historisch-geographisch en
statistisch overzigt. Uit officiele Bronnen bijeengebragt_ (Gravenhage,
1854,) p. 22.
[66] See Koenen's _Geschiedenis der Joden_, etc., pp. 291-92.
[67] Cf. _ibid._, _l. c._, p. 293; _Essai Historique sur la Colonie
Surinam_, etc., Vol. I, p. 42.
[68] Koenen, _l. c._: "Zij werden vooral door de Joden, aan wier hoofd
zich als Kapitein Samuel Nassy bevond, teruggedreven."
[69] Koenen, _l. c._, says: "Deze Nassy verkreeg van tijd tot tijd veel
invloed onder zijne geloofsgenooten, en trachtte eenige hervormingen
bij hen tot stand te brengen, in zonderheid met opzicht tot hunne zoo
menigvaldige feestdagen; doch hij vond daarin niet weinig tegenwerking,
ofschoon hij door brieven der Amsterdamsche Rabbijnen werd ondersteund."
[70] Koenen, _l. c._: "Zijn gezag verminderde zeer, toen de Kolonie op
nieuw een Bewindhebber verkreeg in den Heer Van Scherpenhuizen, die
Aerssens in het bestuur opvolgde."
[71] See Kayserling, in _Monatsschrift_, _l. c._, Vol. VIII, p. 207:
"_Samuel (Cohen) Nasi_ wird als Bürger-Capitaen bezeichnet und trieb
nicht allein die stets wieder neu einbrechenden Indianer mit starkem
Arm zurück, sondern bewirkte auch, dass der neu ernannte Gouverneur Jan
(Johann) van Scharphuisen von seinem Posten abberufen wurde." Cf. also
Isaac de Costa's work, _op. cit._, p. 321.
[72] See Koenen's _Geschiedenis_, etc., p. 294: "Ongelukkig ontstond er
een scherpe naijver tusschen den nieuwen Gouverneur en Samuel Nassy,
die voor zijne komst bijkans alle gezag in zich vereenigd had, en
wellicht had gehoopt den Heer Van Sommelsdyk in het bestuur te zullen
opvolgen; ten gevolge waarvan hij goedvond de nieuwe wereld te verlaten,
en zich onder zijne broederen te Amsterdam te gaan nederzetten. Ook na
zijn vertrek bleef de spanning tusschen de hoofden der Israelitische
bevolking en den Heer Van Scherpenhuizen voortduren, zoodat de eersten
zich bij den Baron de Belmonte en Samuel Nassy te Amsterdam over
hem beklaagden, hun bijstand verzochten, en de terugroeping van den
Bewindhebber op die wijs wisten te bewerken. Hij werd in 1696 vervangen
door Paulus Van Der Veen, en deze op zijne beurt in 1706 door Willem de
Gooyer."
[73] Cp. Dr. M. Kayserling's sketch on "The Jews of Surinam," in
_Monatsschrift_, _l. c._, p. 207: "Ehe noch Scharphuizen auf Surinam
landete, hatte Samuel Nasi die Kolonie verlassen. Nasi konnte es nicht
ertragen, einen andern Mann in der Stellung zu sehen, welche er selbst
zu erlangen hoffte und welche er, vermoege seiner dem Lande erwiesenen
Dienste und Fähigkeiten mit Recht beanspruchen konnte. Er verliess
Surinam und schiffte sich nach Amsterdam ein. In Folge der Mitbewerbung
des Juden um die Gouverneurstelle hatte Scharphuizen die jüdischen
Kolonisten mit weniger Freundlichkeit behandelt und sie hoeher
besteuert als die uebrigen Bewohner der Kolonie, so dass jene bei dem
Grafen de Belmonte und ihrem Bürger-Capitän Samuel Nasi Klage führten
und die Rückberufung des Gouverneurs aufs dringenste von der Regierung
verlangten. Wirklich wurde ein anderer Gouverneur in der Person des
Paulus van der Veen bestellt. Scharphuizen schiffte sich nach Holland
ein; unterwegs von den Franzosen zum Gefangenen gemacht, gelangte
er erst nach mehreren Monaten in die Heimat. Kaum aber in Amsterdam
angekommen, wurde er von Nasi vor Gericht gefordert und gezwungen sich
oeffentlich zu vertheidigen."
[74] _Punten en articulen, und Bericht en antwoord van den Gouverneur
Jan van Scherpenhuizen._ (Amsterdam, 1697.) It would be very
interesting to have a copy of this important trial, in which Samuel
Nassy figured so prominently.
[75] Cf. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 293-294: "De Joden van Surinam bewezen
de Kolonie wederom groote diensten, toen zij in den jare 1689 eenen
aanval te verduren had van het Fransche Eskader, onder bevel van den
vlootvoogd Cassard; in welke verdediging de Heer Van Chatillon, zoon
van den vorigen Bewindhebber, zich bijzonder onderscheidde." See also
Isaac de Costa's _Israel und die Voelker_ (1855), p. 321; Frankel
in his _Monatsschrift_, vol. XII (1863), p. 362. _Révue des Études
Juives_, Vol. IV (1882), p. 131.
[76] Dr. E. Carmoly, in a brief note entitled: "Patriotismus der Juden
in Surinam," published in Dr. Leopold Loew's journal, _Ben Chananja_
(Szegedin, 1861), Vol. IV, No. 20, p. 178, n. 37, writes: "Niemand wird
ihnen den Ruhm streitig machen, nicht nur ihre Soldatendienste zu thun,
sondern auch bei Zuegen gegen ihre in die Wälder geflohene Sklaven ihre
Religionsgesetze den Interesse ihrer Buergerpflichten nachzusetzen;
sogar abergläubische Juden werden es ihnen nicht als Suende anzeichnen.
Man sehe davon einen Beweis in Verburg's _O[st] en W[est] Ind.
Geschied[enis]_, 11 D. 8, _Cyd bestek_, 35 hoofild. § 45, v. d. J.
1689, und Fr. Holf. Merkurius 40 D. wo erzählt wird, dass, da nach dem
Tode des Gouverneur Aersen (_sic_) der Bevollmächtigte Scherphuizen
bei seiner Ankunft in Surinam die Nachricht von der Annäherung der
franzoesischen Flotte erhalten habe, sogleich alle Soldaten, nebst den
Matrosen und den Bürgern auf das Kastell erboten und diesem Befehl
Gehorsam geleistet worden sei, selbst von den Juden, deren viele in
Surinam wohnen, ungeachtet es Sabbat war. Auch hat man darueber zwei
sehr schoene Briefe an die Gesellschaft: _Felix Libertate_ von dem
kuendigen Bürger H. L. Bromet der 20 Jahre lang in Surinam wohnte."
These letters may yet be extant in the State library at Amsterdam,
where many documents on Surinam are preserved.
[77] See my paper in the _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 121, note 1; also
_Révue des Études Juives_, Vol. IV (1882), p. 131.
[78] See Van Kampen, _Geschiedenis der Nederlanders buiten Europa_, Dl.
II, bl. 416-420; _apud_ Koenen's _Geschiedenis_, etc., p. 294-295: "De
Kolonie was van jaar tot jaar in bloei en welstand toegenomen, sedert
de heilzame hervormingen van Aerssens hare talrijke vruchten begonnen
af te werpen. Geen wonder, dat die opkomende welvaart de Franschen, die
op dat pas met de Republiek in oorlog waren, geweldig in de oogen stak.
In Junij des Jaars 1712 waagden zij een vrij hevigen aanval, die echter
manmoedig werd afgeslagen. In October verscheen de Fransche vlootvoogd
Cassard op nieuw voor de kust, en trachtte de rivier Commawine binnen te
zeilen. De ingezetenen, in zonderheid de Joden onder hun Kapitein Isaac
Pinto, boden een hardnekkigen wederstand, doch konden niet beletten,
dat de vijand het land afliep, de stad Paramaribo bombardeerde, en de
volkplanting op een gruwzame wijs brandschattede. Kort daarop werd
de vrede van Utrecht gesloten, waardoor de Kolonie van dezen vijand
gelukkig voor het vervolg verlost werd." See also Dr. Kayserling, in
the _Monatsschrift_, _l. c._, p. 208. His remarks being substantially
the same, we forbear citing in full.
[79] Cp. Dr. A. Hahn's article on _Primitive Jewish Settlements in
America_, in the _American Jews' Annual_ for 1886-1887, p. 36; also
Isaac de Costa, _op. cit._, p. 321; _Révue des Études Juives_, Vol. IV
(1882), p. 131. We are inclined to think that the families mentioned,
distinguished themselves in subsequent engagements in Surinam, during
the negro revolts of which we shall speak in the next rubric.
[80] Cp. a review of the _Essai Historique sur la Colonie Surinam_,
etc., quoted often in this essay, in the _Monthly Review_ for 1792;
Frankel in his _Monatsschrift_, vol. XII (1863), p. 362; and Hannah
Adams' _History of the Jews_ (Boston, 1810) p. 457. On pp. 455-458, a
fair résumé of the History of the Jews in Surinam is given.
[81] Koenen, _l. c._, p. 295: "Reeds in het jaar 1690 waren de slaven
op de plantagie van eenen rijken Israeliet, Machado genaamd, opgestaan,
en hadden hun meester vermoord. Van toen af waren de Negers, die
kans zagen om zich van hunne heeren te ontslaan, begonnen naar de
binnenlanden te vluchten, alwaar zij zich in de bosschen nestelden. De
Gouverneur Van Scherpenhuizen vond niet goed, den Joden bij dergelijke
gelegenheden eenigen bijstand te verleenen, maar beval hun, om op hunne
eigene verdediging bedacht te zijn. Dit was een groote misslag; want,
eensdeels leerde hij daardoor de Israelitische bevolking zich onderling
tot hare eigene handhaving te verbinden, hetgeen lichtelijk voor de
Christenen bij eenige botsing gevaarlijk had kunnen worden; anderdeels
liet hij daardoor langzamerhand eene macht opkomen, die, gelijk de
ervaring geleerd heeft, niet slechts voor de rust en veiligheid, maar
voor het bestaan der volkplanting zelve hoogstgevaarlijk moest worden."
Cp. also Kayserling, _l. c._, p. 208.
[82] Koenen, _l. c._, pp. 295-296: "De Joden verdedigden zich meer dan
eenmaal met goed gevolg.... Evenwel deed men in 1730 eene krachtvolle
poging, bij welke zich eene Joodsche compagnie, onder aanvoering
van een Onderofficier met veertien blanken en zes-en-dertig Negers,
onderscheidde door het bezetten en bewaken van een belangrijken
post, na het verwoesten van de gehuchten der Boschnegers." Cp. also
Kayserling, _l. c._, p. 208.
[83] Cp. Kayserling in _Monatsschrift_, _l. c._, p. 208.
[84] Koenen, _l. c._, p. 297, has erroneously _Ben Venida del Monte_--a
name unknown in Spanish-Jewish literature. Dr. Kayserling, _l. c._,
p. 208, note 6, corrects the mistake, and identifies him with the
same authoress, who wrote in praise of the Spanish translation of the
Psalter by _Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna_, of Jamaica. Cp. the present
writer's papers on _Early Jewish Literature in America_, in _P. A.
J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 110-112; 140-141; and _Jewish Martyrs of the
Inquisition in South America_, in _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 4, (1895) where
full references are given on this famous American-Shephardic poet.
[85] See Koenen's _Geschiedenis_, _l. c._, p. 296-297: "..... Reeds
in 1718 had hij, (David Nassy) onder bevel van den Joodschen Kapitein
Jacob d'Avilar, aan een welgelukten aanslag van dien aard deel genomen:
ten gevolge van welken hij van Onderofficier tot eersten Luitenant,
straks tot Kapitein der Joodsche burger-compagnie, benoemd was. Thans
was hij niet minder voorspoedig; en ofschoon door Boeyé verlaten, trof
hij den vijand in zijne woningen aan; versloeg er velen, en nam een
aantal anderen gevangen. Boeyé, die den Israelitischen Hoofdman wegens
gebrek aan ondergeschiktheid, had aangeklaagd, werd zelf gestraft, en
Nassy oogstte van dezen tocht zoo groot eenen naam in, dat hij door
den Spaansch-Joodschen dichter (_sic_) Ben Venida del Monte (_sic_) in
sierlijke lofdichten werd bezongen en gevierd." See also Kayserling,
_l. c._, p. 208. His notes based on Koenen's are not as full.
[86] Van Kampen, in his _Geschiedenis der Nederlanders buiten Europa_,
Dl. III, bl. 116, says, curiously enough, that they were away about six
_months_ instead of six _weeks_.
[87] Cp. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 297: "In 1738 stonden de Negers der
plantagie van den Joodschen eigenaar Manuel Pereira op, en vermoorden
hunnen meester. Hierop zond Isaac Arias, voormalig Officier der
Joodsche compagnie, die zijne bezittingen in de nabuurschap had,
eenige vrijwilligers van zijne natie, onder aanvoering van David
Nassy en Abraham De Brito, tegen de Boschnegers uit. Zes weken lang
bleef deze bende op vijandelijken grond, zoodat niemand wist wat
van haar geworden was; doch bij hunne terugkomst bleek het, dat
zij een allervoorspoedigsten aanval hadden gedaan, terwijl zij de
afgehouwene handen van zes gesneuvelde Negers, en zeven-en-veertig
krijgsgevangenen medevoerden. Jeder Officier ontving daarop van den
Raad voor dezen tocht f. 75; jeder burger f. 36; elke gewapende Neger f.
20, en jeder zwarte die met levensmiddelen belast geweest was, f. 5 ter
belooning." See also Dr. Kayserling, _l. c._, pp. 208-209. He does not
state what the rewards were.
[88] Cf. Dr. Hahn's article on _Primitive Jewish Settlements in
America_, in _The American Jews' Annual_ for 1886-87, p. 36, who says
that "among those who fell on the battlefield was David Nassi, in 1743,
at the age of seventy. That was his thirty-first campaign against the
French." We are inclined to believe that this is wrong, for earlier
historians (see the following note) state that he died of a broken
heart--a victim of slander. Furthermore, he did not fight against the
French, but the Maroons. See also Isaac de Costa, _op. cit._, p. 321.
[89] Cf. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 297-98: "Vijf jaren later deed dezelfde
onvermoeide Israeliet (David Nassy), die wel dertig tochten tegen
de Boschnegers heeft ondernomen, ofschoon reeds bejaard, nog eenen
aanval op het dorp der kreoolsche Negers, die door hunne meerdere
beschaving en hun omgang met de Europeers de gevaarlijkste van alle
waren. Deze strooptocht had plaats op den grooten Verzoendag der
Joden. Zonder dat zij zich door de heiligheid van het feest lieten
terughouden, trokken deze, de rivier Suriname langs, het binnenland
in, vervolgden den vijand, staken zijne hutten in vlam, roeiden de
veldvruchten uit den grond, brachten een aantal Negers om, en voerden
veertien krijgsgevangenen met zich. Doch Nassy werd het slachtoffer
van een list des vijands. Men maakte hem diets, dat de waterbronnen
door de Negers vergiftigd waren; en hij, door gebrek aan de noodige
verversching gedwongen, neemt op zich om terug te keeren, zonder den
last of de orders ven deen Raad af te wachten. Zijne benijders en
tegenstanders wisten hem deswege bij den Raad in een kwaad gerucht te
brengen; zijne verdediging werd naauwelijks aangehoord; zijn proces
opgemaakt. Dit krenkte den wakkeren man zoo geweldig, dat hij door eene
koorts werd aangetast, die hem in den ouderdom van zeventig jaren ten
grave sleepte. Na zijnen dood werd zijn geloofsgenoot, Isaac Carvalho,
in zijne plaats tot Kapitein der Joodsche burger-compagnie benoemd."
Cp. also, Kayserling, _l. c._, p. 209.
[90] See Koenen, _l. c._, p. 298-299: "Eenige jaren daarna werd een
verdrag van vrede met de meer en meer gevaarlijk wordende westelijke
Marrons gesloten. Doch nu vertoonde zich een nieuw gevaar van den
kant der oostelijke of Tempati-negers, die in het jaar 1749 eene
plantagie plonderden, en de Negerslaven die zich aldaar bevonden,
met zich voerden. Deze plantagie behoorde eenen Joodschen eigenaar,
en heette _Auka_; van daar bleef aan deze opstandelingen de naam
van _Auka-negers_. Tegen dien vijand was het, dat in 1757 een tocht
werd ondernomen, gedeeltelijk onder den Christenoverste Rijsdorp,
gedeeltelijk onder den Joodschen Kapitein _Naar_, die reeds vroeger
zestien malen tegen denzelfden vijand opgetrokken was. De uitslag ook
van deze onderneming was allergunstigst. _Naar_ verbrandde een groot
Negerdorp, maakte een aantal gevangenen, waaronder zich zekere Corydon,
de belhamel der opstandelingen, bevond, en werd voor zijn manmoedig
bedrijf door den Raad met een aanzienlijk geschenk begiftigd." See also
Dr. Kayserling, _l. c._, p. 209: "Im Verein mit dem obersten Rijsdorp
bekriegte Naar die noch immer Verheerung anrichtenden Neger. Er
verbrannte eine ihrer groessten Doerfer, nahm ihren Häuptling gefangen
und wurde wegen seiner an den Tag gelegten Tapferkeit ansehnlich
belohnt."
[91] See the _Essai Historique sur la Colonie de Surinam_, etc.,
(Paramaribo, 1788; Dutch version, Amsterdam, 1791), Vol. I, p. 123. Of
this rare and valuable work, which was called forth by the writings
of Dohm on the _Emancipation of the Jews_, only one copy (in the
British Museum) is known to be in existence. The writer of these lines
is having the volumes copied in view of his _History of the Jews in
Surinam_. See for further references his paper in the _P. A. J. H.
S._, No. 3, pp. 126-30. It is worthy of mention that this is the
_first_ work published in Paramaribo.
[92] Cf. Rev. E. M. Myers' _Centurial_ (New York, 1890), p. 117, _ad
ann._ 1750.
[93] Cp. _Essai Historique sur la Colonie de Surinam_, etc.
(Paramaribo, 1788), Vol. I, pp. 98, 99; Koenen, _l. c._, pp. 299,
300 gives a graphic account: "Zoodanige belooning, de eerzucht ook
van den nog jeugdigen _Isaac Nassy_ prikkelende, berokkende dezen
moedigen jongeling zijn ondergang. Naijverig op de onderscheiding, door
zijnen geloofsgenoot verworven, en wanende, dat de Boschnegers tegen
een' geregelden aanval geen moed noch kracht wisten over te stellen,
verzamelt hij in haast een twaalftal zijner vrienden, wapent hunne
beste slaven en de zijnen, voorziet zich met een onbeduidenden voorraad
van krijgsbehoeften en levensmiddelen voor tien of twaalf dagen en
vervolgt alzoo den op de vlucht gedreven vijand. Doch hij stutte op een
veel grooter aantal dan hij berekend had. Eenen tijd lang hielden de
blanken zich nog staande. _Nassy_ leide groote dapperheid aan den dag,
en ofschoon hij een geweerschot in het rechterbeen bekomen had, deed
hij nog groote moeite om zijne lieden te hereenigen en hun zinkenden
moed weder aan te wakkeren. Doch te vergeefs. Hij werd levend door de
Negers gevat, en wreedaardig vermoord. Wellicht zouden zij hem nog het
leven gespaard hebben, ten einde de voldoening te smaken van zich door
een' blanke te laten dienen; maar de wraakzucht, die al te hevig in
hun woesten boezem blaakte, liet hun zelfs deze wreede barmhartigheid
niet toe. Zij verloren echter bij deze gelegenheid een tweetal hunner
opperhoofden, en nog wel twintig gemeenen." See also Kayserling, in
_Monatsschrift_, _l. c._, pp. 209, 210.
[94] Cf. Koenen, _l. c._, p. 300-301: "Den 23sten Mei, 1761, werd er
een vrede met hen gesloten, die thans een einde maakte aan de gewapende
tochten," etc., etc.
[95] See _Essai Historique sur la Colonie de Surinam_, etc., Vol. I, p.
130.
[96] Cf. _Essai Historique_, etc., Vol. I, p. 135; Koenen, _l. c._, p.
301-302.
[97] See Koenen, _l. c._, p. 300: "... De afkeer des verdrukten
Negers was veel grooter voor den Israelitischen meester dan voor den
Christenplanter; en de Jood was harder tegen den armen slaaf, dan zijn
landgenoot van verschillend geloof," etc.
[98] Cf. Koenen, _ibid._, _l. c._, p. 300-301: "... Haasten wij
ons intusschen, tegenover deze treurige bedenkingen de aangenamer
opmerking te maken, dat de volkplanting wegens hare verdediging niet
minder verplichtingen aan hare Joodsche bevolking in die dagen gehad
heeft, dan vroeger wegens de oorbaarmaking harer woeste gronden, of
als het moederland door de herlevendiging van deszelfs handel; en dat
dus de Jood in de kolonien door het beoefenen van den landbouw en het
waarnemen der landsbeveiliging, die verdiensten verworven heeft, die
hem in het Gemeenebest zelve nog schenen te ontbreken."
[99] _Beschrijving van de plechtigheden, nevens de lofdichten en
gebeden uitgesproken op het eerste Jubelfeest van de Synagogue der
Portugeesche Joodsche gemeente, op de Savane in de Colonie Suriname,
genaamd Zegen En Vrede. [Berakha Ve-Shalom] op den 12den van Wijnmaand
1785._ (Amsterdam, Hendrik Willem en Cornelis Dronsberg, 1786). The
volume is described at length in my paper on _Early Jewish Literature
in America_, _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, pp. 126-129, where the Hebrew
title is also given.
[100] See the writer's _Literary Gleanings on American Jewish History_,
No. II, in the _Menorah Monthly_ for September, 1895 (Vol. XIX), pp.
149-152.
[101] See S. J. Rudelsom's _Lofzang op den bleyde dag der inhuldiging
van ... J. G. Wichers, gouverneur-generaal over de colonie v. Suriname,
2 Juni, 1785_. The Ms. of this interesting pamphlet will soon be
printed, with other works of Surinam Jews, in the French Jewish
periodical, _Révue des Études Juives_, published in Paris. See also _P.
A. J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 127.
[102] _Plechtigheden, vreugde gezangen en gebeeden in de Hoogd.
Joodsche Synagogue Neve Salom, te Suriname, op d. dag d. inhuldig.
van Sir Charles Green, Gouverneur-Generaal over Suriname, opgesteld en
gezongen d. J. M. De Vries, Voorzanger._ (Paramaribo, 1804.) See also
_P. A. J. H. S._, No. 3, p. 130.
[103] See _Plechtige Vreugde Gezangen, en Gebeden, Verricht in de
Hoogduitsche Israelitische Sinagogue Neve Salom ... te Suriname, ter
gelegenheid, en op den blyden dag der Inhuldiging van Zynen Hoog Edelen
Gestrengen Heer Abraham De Veer, Gouverneur-Generaal der gemelde
kolonie,--Gezongen door den Eerwaarden Heer Tobias Tall._ The Hebrew
title and other particulars are given in the writer's paper, _P. A. J.
H. S._, No. 3, pp. 130-131.
[104] Cf. Dr. Kayserling, _Monatsschrift_, l. c., p. 213.
VI.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF DAVID EBRON (DATED 1597) TO KING PHILIP II,
GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS DISCOVERIES AND SERVICES TO THE STATE, IN
SOUTH AMERICA.
Among the numerous letters, documents and registers of the Albaic
archives,[105] which bear special reference to the discovery
and colonization of America, is particularly noticeable the
culture-historic, perhaps valuable memorial address of DAVID EBRON
from Constantine, Algeria (dated December 9th, 1597), to the Emperor,
Philip II. The writer introduces himself in the preliminary note as an
Israelite, who, at a tender age, fled to Africa, and rendered important
services to the King of India and other personages of rank in various
sections of Africa.
He enumerates many items of surprising significance, apparently
anxious to array them as an overwhelming evidence of his abilities and
reliability, and eager to impress upon the august reader the great
amount of gratitude due him for his achievements. He prepared accurate
sketches of distant regions and established settlements, dependent upon
his generous bounty; he discovered countries and conquered them, and
whatsoever had been attempted in Santa Marta, South America, within the
last five years, may be safely attributed to his energetic activity and
perseverance. Thence he repaired by land to Peru, and enlisted in the
service of the monarch in Huancabelica. The last remarkable harvest in
quicksilver, which was so advantageous to the king, was chiefly due
to his judicious management. By careful husbanding of material and
laudable zeal he was instrumental in not only saving sixty and some
odd thousand pesos (!) involved in the annual transportation of small
fleets from Lima and Panama but equally as much by causing galleys to
be constructed there.
Through the personal malice and mean manoeuvers of two officials, the
well-merited reward for the last mentioned benefits was withheld from
him. "But," affirms the abused victim of ingratitude with a dignified
emphasis, which seemed to restore his confidence, "my accomplishments
in this regard may easily be ascertained by application to Gutierrez
Florez, the Indian minister of commerce in Seville."
"I do not bring these facts to your notice," continues the
self-vindicator in haughty terms, "in order to obtain reward from your
Majesty, but that your serene highness might perceive how zealously
and indefatigably, I, a _secret Hebrew_,[106] travelled everywhere,
despite harassing circumstances, obstacles end even imminent perils,
and have forsaken your realm out of pure fear to die outside of my
faith, which, according to my conception is the only true creed
appointed by the Almighty, the Creator of heaven, sun, moon, sea and
all things therein, you, gracious Sire included. I do not revive these
recollections in order to deplore my ill-fortune or petition for the
proper remuneration and recognition denied me for the various favors
rendered, for such great and weighty benefits I am yet in a position to
offer from here, without necessitating my residence there; only out of
simple attachment to your royal highness, whom I desire to serve and in
order that the memory of this Israelite and his faithful acts be not
wholly eradicated from your heart, I am quite satisfied to continue
the diligent execution of projects confided to my trust. O, would it
please the Heavenly Father, that the Jews in your dominion could enjoy
the same liberties and privileges accorded to them by the exemplary
toleration of the Pope in Rome, Venice, Milan, Naples, in the whole of
Apulia, Ragusa, Florence, Pisa, Ferrara, Mantova and Italy and _here in
Constantine_ and the Barbary States.
Would that they were permitted to migrate from one portion of your
realm to the other and live under the same circumstances as elsewhere.
Then I would not resign from the office I so loyally occupied, and
your countries would considerably increase in commercial opulence--it
is inconceivable why your Grace should not participate in the profits
reaped by others--then your armies, military exploits and campaigns
against Lutherans, heretics and other enemies would be much more
successful than they have been heretofore.
"And as regards the Spanish Inquisition against the Jews,"[107]
further declares this remarkable champion of the Mosaic faith, "I
have absolutely no objection to urge, if it is directed against such
as voluntarily embrace Christianity and secretly profess the ancient
religion." He calls the King's attention to the fact that within two
months he could at command transport 200,000 pesos cash money into the
state treasury without injuring anyone; in a similar manner he is able
in one single day, whenever the King willed it, to obtain more than one
million pieces of gold from Santa Fe in the new kingdom of Granada.
Other treasures are spoken of as accessible to the all-conquering
genius of _David Ebron_, and obtainable by him for the King, whom he
is intent on reconciling to his Jewish subjects. His eloquence reaches
the fever heat of indignation, however, when he alludes to the thievish
officials in the King's employ. "What a pity, your Majesty, that so
much money is stolen in India and Spain. I could aggravate myself to
death when I contemplate upon the mass of wealth wrongfully acquired
by your representatives and ministers. Were I to enumerate all the
outrageous robberies committed against you, O mighty Sovereign, in
Seville, and apprise you of the doings of that infamous horde there
stationed, and admitted into your court! ... O lips, if only you
would divulge the secrets which oppress the heart! O tongue! why not
reveal what you know and feel?" In concluding his remarks, he places
himself at the disposal of the government as confidential agent in the
affairs of Portugal, the marriage of the Oranian, and similar matters,
and enjoins upon the King to communicate with him under the seal of
strictest privacy, should he require his co-operation or assistance at
any future time. "The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," says he, "who
created the universe, protect and exalt your Majesty and inspire you
to deal leniently and indulgently with your Hebrews, whom God never
totally ignores or forgets, but inflicts with penalties and disasters
only to try their fortitude and allegiance!"
This quite forgotten explorer and financier, whose eloquent plea in
behalf of his race can not fail to appeal to every one, and whose only
demand for the enormous service rendered to his king is more tolerance
toward his people, deserves an honorable place in the annals of
American Jewish History as a loyal, patriotic subject.
VII.
ENTERPRISE AND INFLUENCE OF THE GRADIS FAMILY IN THE WEST INDIES, AND
DURING THE CANADIAN WARS.
This is not to be a series of biographical sketches on the Rothschilds
of the Eighteenth Century, for neither the space nor the scope of this
work would permit of such an elaborate history. This chapter aims
merely to set forth the political prominence attained by the family
of Gradis,[108] to whose hands the fortunes of two continents were
entrusted, and whose labors of love and patriotic services during the
war-times of France in America, deserve to be chronicled in our annals.
Reserving the elaboration of the family's antecedents, and other
interesting particulars for another large paper on the _History of the
Jews in Martinique_--the seat of their chief activity--we shall here
detail those facts which concern our topic the most.
We may begin with _David Gradis_, who, in 1731, was naturalized in
Bordeaux,[109] and who died in 1751. Already in 1696 he founded the
great mercantile house which had commercial connections with England,
Holland, Paris, southern France and the West Indies. The exports were
linen, wine and alcohol. In the year 1715, David Gradis tided over the
financial crisis under Louis XIV., after paying a draft of 150,000
francs, which his house endorsed. In fact the hard times did not
affect him much, for we know that only two years after he conducted
all the transatlantic commerce. He fitted out three ships, one bound
for Cayenne and two for the Island of Martinique (or _Martinico_).
His cargo consisted of wine, alcohol, meal and pickled meat, which
he exchanged for sugar and indigo in the West Indian ports. Another
money-crisis in 1719, passed without materially injuring his prospects,
although he lost heavily. In spite of it, however, he again undertook
foreign expeditions and was, as before, successful. In 1724, his
business expanded to such an extent that he opened a branch on the
island of St. Domingo. His name and fame grew in popularity and
opulence, and French America was glad to acknowledge the enterprise
of this energetic man who passed under the name of _the Portuguese
Merchant_. And, although Jews were not tolerated in the French
colonies, by the stern and scheming Jesuits, as we shall have ample
occasion to show elsewhere, the government was constrained to overlook
his origin and belief, in view of his vast influence and commercial
importance. So universal was the esteem felt for the house of David
Gradis that when his son Samuel, who conducted the interests of the
business in St. Pierre, Martinique, died there in 1732, his remains
were interred in the garden of the _frères de la Charité_, and masses
were held in the cloisters for the repose of his soul. True, the monks
dared not erect a monument to mark the spot. The lieutenant of the
colony urged in argument of their expulsion the fact that were any of
the members of the house of Gradis, there established, to die, their
property would have to be confiscated, for Jews were not permitted to
have possessions. Nevertheless he shut his eyes on their prolonged
residence on the island. Abraham, eldest son of David Gradis, succeeded
his father as senior member of the firm, of which he was previously
a partner. He achieved even more fame than his predecessor. Endowed
with wonderful ability and speculative genius, he also controlled the
trade of France with the West Indies. He received important official
contracts from the government; became intimate with personages of the
highest political rank; obtained the protection and friendship of M.
Maurepas, the confidant of Louis XVI., and added much to the glory
and renown of the house of "_David Gradis, et fils_." His extensive
correspondence with the greatest men of the reign of Louis XV. and
XVI., is still extant.
Through the friends who were influential in his behalf at court, his
ships were fitted out at the cost of the government, and this gave him
further opportunity to enlarge his business connections. Nor was he
ungrateful for these privileges and for the consideration shown him
by his royal patron. Thus we hear of remarkable exploits undertaken
in behalf of his country. In the wars between England and France for
the possession of Canada, he displayed extraordinary activity. In
order to expedite matters, he fitted out ships to Canada, although
the insurance on the cargo, because of the war then pending, was most
exorbitant. If his freight vessels were captured by the armed cruisers
of the enemy, he built and replenished new ones, without caring for
losses thus incurred for France. In 1748, he organized the society of
Canada, under the auspices of the government, in order to test the
possibilities of the land, and thereby again widened the sphere of his
mercantile activity. Important missions were entrusted to him. His
ships carried valuable cargo (presumably military ammunition, etc.),
always at the expense of the firm. He even erected magazines in Quebec.
Later on the government defrayed these costs, but _David Gradis et
fils_ had no little share in the success of these projects.
After his father's death in 1751, Abraham Gradis' financial interests
were still more extended. To give an idea of the scope of his
commercial activity we will cast a momentary glance into the private
accounts of the firm. In 1758, the commerce of the house with the
French colonies alone, amounted to 2,369,326 francs. In the following
year, the firm received the commission to forward 4500 tons of goods
and ammunition for the French troops in Canada. Twelve ships, among
them _eight of his own_ were called into service for the purpose. From
1759 to 1763, when Canada ceased to be a French possession, the export
trade of the firm of Gradis was worth _nine million francs_. These
merchant vessels, on account of the war, had to be manned by a goodly
company of soldiers, who had frequent occasion to defend themselves
from attacks on the sea, and saved quite often the honor of their flag
by their fearlessness and bravery.
During the struggle between England and France for the occupation of
Canada, the house of Gradis dispatched thither many heavily laden ships
at the order and expense of the French Government, which was their
debtor to the amount of several millions on more than one occasion. Of
course these obligations could not be liquidated for some time. Gradis
& Co.'s drafts were not promptly paid, for France was impoverished by
the American wars and had no means at her disposal. Although these
noble financiers suffered heavy losses from the capture and detention
of richly cargoed vessels sent out in the name of France, they did not
lose faith and preserved their balance with a skill and energy which is
remarkable. Far from fearing to sacrifice too much for the fatherland,
they strove more and more to merit the good will and esteem of the king
and the aristocracy. It was indeed a work of charity and patriotism on
their part to ransom French captives.[110] Abraham Gradis, we are told,
authorized an influential business friend in London, to supply the
captains and commanders held as prisoners in England with everything
necessary to ease and comfort their condition.[111]
He more than once was compelled to appeal to the government for the
necessary funds due him, in order to carry on his trade with the
colonies, which was increasing in dimensions every year. The road
to the audience-chamber of the King was not always clear to even so
influential a personage as Abraham Gradis. On one occasion, being
hard pressed for money to fill a large order received from the West
Indies, he presented his claim to Minister Berryer--well known for
his harsh and imperious demeanor. The latter, hesitating to comply,
Gradis assured him that unless his demands were soon satisfied he
would be prevented from accomplishing his duties. Whereupon the
stern minister cuttingly replied: "_That will not be such a great
misfortune; you merchants are accustomed to such things; in fact you
become rich through them!_" Abraham Gradis straightened himself up at
this insult, and looking steadily at the great man, said: "The name of
Gradis, better known in four quarters of the globe than that of the
Minister of France, is free from dishonor. No taint of any kind covers
its escutcheon!" With this he urged the minister with even greater
persistence to render him satisfaction by appealing to the King in his
behalf. Berryer, unused to such show of courage and firmness, could not
but comply with his request, and Gradis' claims were duly honored.
It was no conceit that prompted his reply to the haughty
representative of King Louis XV. His sovereign gave frequent sign of
his favor and gratitude for the diplomatic skill and rare tact as
well as noble devotion with which Gradis managed the business affairs
of the empire in these revolutionary days. The minister once wrote
in the following strain to Gradis & Co.: "I considered it my duty to
remind his Majesty that your conduct was both unselfish and zealous for
the welfare and services of the state on all occasions and under all
circumstances. His Majesty commissions me to express to you his utmost
satisfaction and recognition."
As a reward for his untiring interest in behalf of the French nation,
exceptional privileges were granted to him (Abraham Gradis), and his
family in the colonies. The right of owning real estate and civil
equality in common with the other citizens of France on the Island of
Martinique, were accorded to him in 1779. It is interesting to note
that he was associated with the Superior of the Jesuit Missionaries
in Martinique--the famous _pater Lavalette_, who had charge of the
largest and most influential congregation there, and who conducted
an immense business with foreign countries. Gradis once advanced him
400,000 francs. He often received him in his own home socially, and was
charmed by the personal merits of the enterprising Jesuit. This did not
prevent Gradis--a shrewd and careful merchant who knew just how much
to risk--from severing all connections with him, for he rather early
suspected the utter collapse of Lavalette's colossal undertakings, and
thus avoided the bankruptcy which would inevitably have resulted, had
he, like other careless firms, allowed himself to be drawn into the
vortex of speculation. Similar causes of self-preservation prompted
him to withdraw from further commercial relations with the State, as
another financial crisis warned him of the outbreak of the Revolution.
Much more of interest might be told of Abraham Gradis and other
members of the same stock. Thus for instance of his acts of kindness
during the famine in the French Colonies, at which time he sent
seventeen ships laden with nourishment and merchandise for the relief
of the suffering--a fact used by the Abbé Gregoire as a plea and an
argument in favor of the emancipation of the Jews.
A rebellion in St. Domingo and in Martinique where the Gradis family
(among them David II, Benjamin, Moses Gradis, etc.), owned extensive
territory, together with the losses in the mother country during
the French Revolution, caused the downfall of this princely house.
Their possessions in St. Domingo, valued at three million francs,
were utterly ruined. The slaves in their employ were (unknown to
them) misused by their representative, hence the "habitation," as
his property was called, began to yield but sad results. The younger
brother, Moses, saved at least a meagre portion of the vast wealth
once commanded by the house of Gradis, by visiting the island and
caring for the negroes, who, in gratitude for his kind treatment of
them--eulogized by the abolitionist Schoelcher--strove to make good
their former losses. The family of Gradis is immortalized in the
history of the commerce of two continents. "Their works are their
monuments."
VIII.
THE CIVIL AND MILITARY STATUS OF THE JEWS IN JAMAICA.
In the West Indies, the Jews, though debarred from public office
until late, contributed much to the public good. Their constancy and
restless activity in behalf of the Government under which they served
are chronicled by many historians. It were useless to give an elaborate
account of their influence for good in the islands. It would lead
us much too far to recount them, and in fact many things have been
recorded of this nature by the present writer elsewhere.[112] If we
mention the case of _Daniel Cordoso_, who was killed while defending
Curaçao, from an attack of the English in 1805,[113] it is because his
is the only one referred to by name in the history of that island.
No doubt other researches will be made by the active members of the
_American Jewish Historical Society_, in this direction, which will
silence all calumny against our patriotism. As a fitting epilogue to
these pages, we subjoin a "List of Jews appointed to civil and military
offices in Jamaica, since the act of 1831," extracted from the official
gazettes of the island, and presented by Sir F. H. Goldsmid, in his
_Arguments advanced against the enfranchisement of the Jews, considered
in a series of letters_, Second Edition, London 1833, pp. 39-40 (First
Ed., London, 1831), arranged in the following chronological order:
1831.
October 15th MYER BENJAMIN, Gent., to be a Quartermaster.
October 24th MOSES GOMES SILVA, ESQ., to be a Provost
Marshal-General.[114]
October 27th ALEXANDER BRAVO, Esq., to be a Magistrate
and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the Parish of Clarendon.
November 2nd PHILIP LUCAS, Esq., to be a Magistrate and
Assistant Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the Parish of Kingston.
December 13th AARON GOMES DACOSTA, Gent., to be an
Ensign.
December 31st DANIEL JACOBS, Gent., to be an Ensign.
1832.
January 19th ALEXANDER JOSEPH LINDO, Gent., to be a
Quartermaster.
March 8th JACOB DE PASS, Esq., to be a Magistrate and
Assistant Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the Parish Port Royal.
March 9th SAMUEL DELISSER, Gent., to be an Ensign.
April 27th ISAAC GOMES DACOSTA, Gent., to be a Quartermaster.
May 1st GEORGE ISAACS, Gent., to be a Quartermaster.
May 5th BARNET ISAACS, Gent., to be an Ensign.
July 6th DAVID LOPEZ, Gent., to be a Lieutenant of
Artillery.
July 26th ABRAHAM ISAACS, Esq., to be a Magistrate
and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the Parish of St. Ann.
August 4th MOSES Q. HENRIQUES, Gent., to be an
Ensign.[115]
It is evident from this brief and insufficient summary of our subject,
that the Jews on American soil, north and south, east and west, were
loyal, law-abiding citizens, noble philanthropists and exemplary
patriots.
FOOTNOTES:
[105] For completeness' sake we reproduce this chapter from a recent
sketch in the _Menorah Monthly_ (Vol. XIX), for September, 1895, pp.
145-148, entitled: _A 16th Century document written by David Ebron, a
Jewish financier in America_. This newly discovered letter is perhaps
the most important evidence yet furnished of the services rendered by
the Jews in the discovery and financial improvement of America, and
deserves to be incorporated in this work. The book containing a copy of
this document was lately published in Madrid (1891), under the title:
_Documentos Escogidos del Archivo de la Casa di Alba_. See for other
particulars the above quoted article in _Menorah_, note. We intend
publishing Ebron's letter soon in the original.
[106] On the Marranos in Hispañiola and South America, Dr. Kayserling
has published some interesting data in the _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 2; see
also his _Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the
Discovery of America_ (New York, 1894).
[107] The writer of these pages, in another paper, treats of the
sufferings of the _Marranos_ or New Christians in Mexico, Peru and
Brazil from 1570 to 1750. See his article on "The Jewish Martyrs of the
Inquisition in South America," in _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 4, (1895). Dr.
Cyrus Adler furnishes in the same _Publications_, No. 4, a valuable
sketch on the "Trial of Jorge de Almeida by the Inquisition in Mexico,"
1590-1609, which sets forth the social condition of the secret Jews in
that country at the end of the sixteenth century.
[108] The sources whence the materials contained in this chapter
are taken, being for the most part accessible, and, as in a
forthcoming essay on the _Jews of Martinique_, all the references
will be incorporated in full, the writer merely quotes the following
authorities: _Notice sur la famille Gradis et sur la maison Gradis ét
fils de Bordeaux, par Henri Gradis_ (1875), _apud_ Graetz, "Die Familie
Gradis," in his _Monatsschrift_, etc., Vol. XXIV (1875), pp. 447-459;
XXV (1876), pp. 78-85; his _Geschichte der Juden_, Vol. XI (Leipzig,
1870), pp. 190, 200, 202, 223; see also Ad. Thierry: _Dissertation sur
cette quest, est-il des moyens de rendre les juifs plus heureux et plus
utile en France--(ouvrage couronné)_ Paris, 1788; and several books on
the history of the Jews in Bordeaux. In our narrative of the career of
the Gradis family we follow Prof. Graetz, in his _Monatsschrift_, _l.
c._
[109] Cf. also Dr. Graetz, in _Monatsschrift_, Vol. XXIV, p. 557.
[110] This important fact is thus recorded by Prof. Graetz:
(_Geschichte der Juden_, vol. XI, p. 190) "Gradis aus einer reichen und
angesehenen Familie in Bordeaux, die grosse Bank- und ueber-seeische
Geschaefte fuer die franzoesischen Colonien betrieb, eigene Schiffe
ausruestete und dem franzoesischen Staate in den entfernten Besitzungen
_durch Ausloesung franzoesischer Gefangener aus den Haenden der
Englaender Dienste geleistet hatte_." See also the following note,
which is still more explicit.
[111] Cf. Graetz, in _Monatsschrift_, vol. XXIV., p. 452: "...
_Abraham Gradis gab einem Geschaeftsfreunde in London den Auftrag,
den gefangenen franzoesischen Capitaenen und Commandanten auf seine
Rechnung Alles zu verabreichen, was sie noethig haben sollten, um ihre
Lage zu erleichtern_."
[112] Cf. G. A. Kohut's article on _Jews in St. Thomas, Jamaica and
Barbados_, in the _P. A. J. H. S._, No. 4.
[113] See Koenen's _Geschiedenis_, etc., p. 307-8: "... Toen in
1805 de Engelschen een vruchteloozen aanval op dit eiland deden, de
Joden, aldaar woonachtig, hun plicht ter verdediging van hetzelve
moedig betracht hebben, zoodat een van hen, zijnde _Daniel Cardoso_,
geboortig van Amsterdam, bij die gelegenheid gesneuveld is." Cf. also
Van Hamelsveld, _Geschiedenis der Joden_, p. 363.
[114] This is analogous to the English office of Sheriff.
[115] This list was already published by the writer in an article on
_The Civil and Military Status of American Jews_, in _Menorah Monthly_,
Vol. XVIII, No. 4, pp. 256-7.
JEWS IN THE ARMIES OF EUROPE.
The purpose of the present volume, as its title indicates, is a review
of the record and the status as patriot, soldier and citizen of the
_American_ Jew. But the Jew is co-extensive with civilization, not only
historically but geographically as well, and wherever civilization
makes its way, there the Jew will be found exerting a positive
influence in furthering its progress. He will be found at the nucleus
and core of conservatism and order wherever order is akin to right, but
he has never been wanting at the front of Revolution when wrong could
no longer otherwise be righted.
Avoiding more than a passing advertence to Jewish military achievements
in the beginning of Israel's history, in the later struggles against
the Greeks and subsequently against the Romans; stopping but a moment
to remember Joshua, and Gideon, and Deborah, the successive Maccabæan
heroes, and the last desperate struggle for freedom that was led by
Bar Cochba against Hadrian; passing down through all the martyrdoms
of the Dark Ages to the present "nineteenth century," we come face to
face with the fact that Jews have been present in European armies since
the time of the Napoleonic wars. They were to be found in the ranks of
all the combatants during that bloody prelude to the great political
regeneration that is yet going on before us, and they have risen as
far above the ranks as the prejudices of the Christianity-professing
majority would admit.
In the successive Polish uprisings, in all the great political
upheavals of 1848, and especially in the Hungarian revolution of that
time, the Jews of their respective nationalities took a vigorous and
aggressive part.[116] Their position in this regard was so positive
and unmistakable that when those great socio-political disturbances
had been quieted through the partial concession of popular rights
by the monarchies of Europe, the Jews of Germany and Austria had
reached a position where they could logically demand their political
enfranchisement and the abolition of the mediæval restrictions which
remained imposed on them. That they did not obtain a full measure of
citizenship until after the establishment of the German Empire in
1871, is indeed true, and even yet the spirit of the Dark Ages is so
far prevalent in Germany and in Austria (leaving Slavic Europe out of
consideration as not yet modernized) as to preclude the advancement
of Jews to the higher posts of the army. In France, however, since
the French Revolution, and in Italy since the consolidation of the
Kingdom, Jews have been advanced to the highest military commands.
In both countries and especially in France, several Jewish soldiers
at present hold the rank of General of Division, and quite a number,
proportionately, that of Brigade and Regimental Commander.[117]
FOOTNOTES:
[116] ... "It is a gratifying proof of progress that the President of
the Magyars (Kossuth) has promised freedom to those who equally with
himself are struggling for the independence of their country, since it
is said that there are no less than 35,000 Israelites in the Hungarian
army." _Extract from a French newspaper reprinted in "The Occident,"
August, 1849. Phila.; Edited by Isaac Leeser._
... "It cannot be denied that already at that time the majority of
the Magyar Jews were patriotically inclined towards the country which
they called their home. As by magic, they felt themselves drawn
towards the man who preached liberty and equality, and at whose hands
they were expecting redemption from the Ghetto and from civil and
political degradation. As a matter of fact, thousands of Jews, among
them a general, fought in the Magyar army.... The contribution which
the notorious Haynau levied upon the Jewish congregations was but a
consequence of the loyalty to the man of the New Era, attributed to the
Jews." _Dr. Adolph Kohut on "The Relations of Kossuth to the Jews," in
the American Hebrew, N. Y., March, 1894._
* * * * *
To the above may be added the following testimony of General Julius
Stahel, one of the active participants in the Hungarian Revolution, and
who subsequently made a distinguished military record in our civil war.
NEW YORK, MAY 22d, 1895,
_Hon. Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C._,
DEAR SIR:
I know from personal knowledge that many Jews fought in the battles
for the independence of Hungary in 1848, with as much bravery and
gallantry as the American Jew fought here during the late strife
between the North and the South, and I also know that the late
humane and illustrious apostle of liberty, Louis Kossuth, always
fully appreciated the patriotism, loyalty and devotion of the Jews
to the cause of Hungary during that great struggle for freedom.
Patriotism and bravery are not the birthright of one nation or
race, but of all mankind.
Very sincerely yours, J. STAHEL.
[117] Referring to a newspaper item regarding the rumors of
a duel between Capt. Cremieux Foa, a French cavalry officer, and a
certain anti-Semite editor of a Paris newspaper, General Franz Sigel
wrote as follows:
played by the Jews of Europe in all the various avenues of progress
need not detain us here. The recurrent ebullitions of unreasoning
prejudice against them which become manifest from time to time, are
ultimately traceable as but distorted expressions of the unrest which
the European social organism is suffering under its abnormal political
and economic conditions. What there is left of this spirit on American
soil is but a reflex of that of Europe, but there, as here, the record
made by the Jewish people in politics and in war, in commerce and in
industry, in science, art and literature, has placed beyond question
their position as patriots, soldiers and citizens.
_New York, May_ 31st, 1892.
_Hon. Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C_.,
DEAR SIR:
Not knowing whether you have seen or will see the inclosed item, I
send it to you. It shows at least that there are no less than 300
Jewish officers serving in the French army, probably the highest
number in any of the great European armies, which speaks well for
France and her republican government.
Hoping that you are well, I am,
Truly yours, FRANZ SIGEL.
THE JEWISH PEOPLE BEFORE THE WORLD.
As already noted by the author in the introduction to this work, it was
in December, 1891, that another of the numberless public vilifications
of the Jewish people which have appeared from time to time had demanded
a no less public refutation of its falsities. It has furthermore been
noted that this refutation was dictated not by anything specially
remarkable in the nature of the slander itself, nor of its source,
inasmuch as the former was commonplace and the latter obscure, but that
the reply had been called forth wholly by reason of the extraordinary
condition of the public mind with regard to the subject at that
particular juncture. It was the time and the occasion that gave the
slander prominence, rather than any peculiarity of its own.
It has been so for a long time past. From the time, nearly 1900 years
ago, when Philo of Alexandria appeared before Caligula in defence
of his people, down along the centuries to the date of Menasseh ben
Israel's appeal to Cromwell in 1656, there were repeated occasions
for such defenses and appeals, and there have been many since. These
contingencies have repeatedly arisen in the course of the slow process
of popular enlightenment which makes up the history of Man, and as that
process is yet far from accomplishment it is not at all unlikely that
they may be repeated in the future.
It is, however, more than passingly remarkable that in the closing
decade of the 19th Century, when "the thoughts of men have widened
with the process of the suns," an occasion of this nature should have
arisen. That such exigencies occur but rarely in the midst of our
Western civilization, and that rare as they are, their occurrence is
always traceable to foreign impulses, only renders more apparent the
liberalizing influences of our free American institutions, while on the
other hand further emphasizing the lessons taught us by the spectacle
of Monarchic Europe. There the remnants of the mediæval system,
political, ecclesiastic and social, that remained as historic _debris_
after the cataclysm of the French Revolution, still clog the advance of
true enlightenment. In Germany and in Austria a considerable portion of
the populace is still affected by a taint of monkish fanaticism, and in
Russia only a comparatively few individuals appear to be free from it.
Schools are numerous in Austria and universities flourish in Germany,
but the prejudices which form the obverse side of folly find still some
teachers in the schools and preachers in the pulpit.
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,"
and the dictates of reason, the teachings of political and economic
science, the lessons of history, will have to be yet more than
once repeated before that umbra of the Dark Ages, the so-called
"anti-Semitism" of Slavic and Teutonic Europe, and its penumbra in
America, will have been lost in historic space.
These lessons have been learned and these teachings taught by the
foremost minds of every epoch and latterly of every generation. From
the time of Reuchlin's defense of the Talmud and Jewish literature
generally against the fanatics of his day, a defense which caused
a religious and political agitation that became the prelude to the
Reformation, down to our present time, there have not been wanting
Christian men of learning and of understanding who strove successfully
in the defense of Jewish polity against the prejudices of ignorance.
The great Renaissance of German letters in the latter half of the
18th century afforded numerous instances of men of this character,
among whom need but be cited Lessing, Herder, Schiller, and Goethe.
These writers and thinkers carried on their polemics in the domain
of idealism, in poetry and philosophy, and their thoughts were
soon re-echoed in the out-givings of the succeeding generation of
scientists, students and statesmen. We will not attempt here to adduce
all the great array of leading minds who have been impelled to express
themselves on this theme, but will limit our citations to a few of
the most authoritative thinkers and a quotation of the most positive
utterances on the subject.
In marked contrast with the accusation of the passing school of
anti-Semitic writers against Judaism as materialistic in its
tendencies, there may be cited an expression by the great German and
cosmopolitan philosopher, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. In a letter to a
Jewish friend regarding the natural idealism expressed in Hebrew
literature, he refers him to the following passage in his _Cosmos_
(_Vol. III, p. 44_), and closes his letter as below.
"It is a characteristic sign of the natural poetry of the Hebrews,
that, as a reflex of Monotheism, it always comprises the whole
of the universe in its unity, both life on earth and the bright
realms on high. It seldom dwells upon single phenomena, but
rejoices in the contemplation of great masses. Nature is not
described as self-existent, or glorified by a beauty of her own;
to the Hebrew singer she always appears in connection with an
over-ruling spiritual power. Nature to him is ever a thing created
and ordained, the living utterance of God's Omnipresence in the
works of the world of matter. Therefore, the lyrical poetry of
the Hebrews, by reason of its subject, is grand and grave in its
solemnity."
"Stand fast by your brethren who have accomplished so remarkable
a course of martyrdom through centuries and now stand on the
threshold of their liberation; devote all the energies of your
intellect to the spiritual labor wherewith your millennial history
is instinct; success cannot, will not fail you and the rich results
that you, my young friend, will obtain from the mines of science,
will calm and comfort you in many a sad experience in the dull and
cloudy present, that is but the precursor of the bright dawn of the
day of liberty."
* * * * *
Another world-famous scientist, ALPHONSE L. P. PYRAME DE CANDOLLE, in
his _Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux siécles_, Geneva,
1873, makes the following very remarkable observations:
"If Europe had been peopled by Jews only we might have witnessed
a curious spectacle. There would no longer be any wars; hence
the moral sensibility would be violated much less and millions
of people would not be torn away from useful occupations. Public
debts and taxes would decrease. The cultivation of science, of
literature, of fine arts, especially music, for which the Jews have
a great predilection, would be furthered to the highest extent.
Industry and commerce would flourish. Few crimes of personal
violence would be committed, and those against property would but
seldom be accompanied by violence. The wealth of the community as
a whole and of individuals would largely increase by the effect of
intelligent and regular labor, combined with economy. This wealth
would have a beneficent effect. The clergy would not come in
collision with the State. Perhaps there would be less corruption
among the officials and greater firmness."
The above passage is approvingly quoted by another great leader in
the world of science, Professor Carl Vogt, in an article published
in _Westerman's Monatshefte_, wherein the writer, treating of the
habits and qualities acquired by European peoples through hereditary
transmission, speaks of the Jewish people as having attained the
highest civilization notwithstanding their having lived for ages under
oppression.
* * * * *
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary, in 1891, of the
political enfranchisement of the French Jews, the celebrated leader of
the French Liberal Catholics, PERE HYACINTHE, addressed to the Grand
Rabbi of Paris the following expressive communication:
"MONSIEUR LE GRAND RABBIN:--You will have seen from the papers that
our Gallican Catholic church intends to commemorate the centenary
of the emancipation of the Jews by the Constituent Assembly.
The 27th of September, 1791, is a date of even greater glory to
France than it is to the Jews. It was a day that witnessed the
reparation of a long and cruel injustice; it inaugurated for the
whole world an era of liberty and brotherhood from which no evil
disposed person has since been able to make us swerve. We are
too enlightened and too liberal-minded to become anti-Semites.
Besides, we are Christians, and as such we must not forget that it
is from Israel's bosom that we have sprung. Israel, the grand old
olive tree from which we have been grafted. For the French Jews
the interregnum which commenced with Sedecias ended with Napoleon.
Napoleon it was, who boasted of being the King of the Jews, and the
Jews accordingly treated him as their political Messiah. Than him
they could not have had a greater.
"But Napoleon's empire, like the kingdom of David, is no more, and
the French Republic now has the keeping of these two illustrious
necropoles, that at Jerusalem wherein reposes the race of David,
that at Paris wherein rests the hero who was in himself his own
sole dynasty.
"But none the less, France has remained, as Bonaparte remarked, the
new tribe of Judah, where Frenchmen and Jews constitute one people.
"Republicans by virtue of the Mosaic legislation, I would almost
say socialistic, in the best sense of the term, before they became
monarchists by Samuel's dispensation, the traditions of the Jews
comprise all the essentials for the service of France.
"'Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah and bring him unto his people; let
his hands be sufficient for him, and be Thou a help to him from his
enemies.'
"These are my wishes, Monsieur le Grand Rabbin and may the God of
the Jews, who is also the God of the Christians, cause them to be
fulfilled speedily.
"Accept, monsieur, the assurance of my fraternal friendship.
HYACINTHE LOYSON, Priest."
* * * * *
As focussing effectively the most salient aspects of this general
subject, we will here cite a thoughtful statement from a strictly
orthodox Roman Catholic source, the French clerical journal, _Le Monde_:
"The immortality of the soul has been repudiated by the Academie
des Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. The Jews had to serve as the
occasion. The Old Testament, however, was vindicated. But in how
many feeble minds was not an uncertainty left? How many will take
the trouble to read over the Sacred Books, when the reading of the
daily papers absorbs all their time? Voltaire knew well enough that
to sustain his iconoclastic views he had to discredit the Jewish
people, to falsify their history, and to take up again the pagan
theory of presenting them as the most degraded of people.
"Such, indeed, was the opinion of the Greeks and Romans in regard
to the Jews. The Greeks, given over to all conceivable turpitude
and tyranny, to an anarchy without bounds and without end,
incapable of even simulating a defence against Rome, despised
the Jewish people, and the Romans entertained the same feelings.
They despised them for the same reason that the economists, the
capitalists, the modern free-thinkers, despise the Catholics.
The Jews did not worship idols; they alone did not prostrate
themselves before nature; they condemned, despised that pantheism,
that idol-worship, which sanctified the vices and the passions and
which the Greeks and Romans embraced with such ardor. The dignity
and regularity of their habits formed a striking contrast to pagan
dissipation. They opposed in their individuality, the beauty of
their rigorous law to the impure teachings of paganism. They never
presented a disgraceful spectacle in the time of their prosperity;
they never participated in the bloody games of the ring; they held
human sacrifices in horror.
"The Jews did not profess the principle of equity, of which the
Greeks and Romans boasted so much--themselves absolute partisans of
Slavery. They simply upheld the institution of family hierarchy,
the paternal authority. Their habits and institutions, inspired
by the parental sentiment--were they not full of kindliness and
foresight? Could they overlook the feeble and the poor? Amongst
them brothers could not know contention and strife, because they
were equals in reality. Without the parent, fraternity would
disappear.
"In order to subsist it is necessary that children should always
have before them the image, the memory, the principle of the
paternity from which they emanated, which formed the bonds of their
friendship. Their unity proceeds from thence, a unity, sweet,
lively, inculcated in infancy, formed by the heart before the mind
could grasp it. The lawgiver had no occasion, therefore, to enjoin
fraternity, but needed only to submit it to that law of nature
which organizes the paternal authority. The Jews were ignorant
of those social ideas that desolated the ancient cities and that
spring up again in modern times. The poor had no demands to make
upon the rich. The Jews never forget, and had they done so, the law
reminded them that the earth belongs to the Lord and that in God
they are all brothers. The constitutional wars between the poor and
the rich in Rome and Athens were caused by extortion. This question
of extortion fills Roman history with its pale shadow; it is at the
bottom of all the troubles, dissensions, periodical massacres and
revolts. It has again taken possession of society with the reform
of the Nineteenth Century. Only in 1789 France passed from under
the yoke of extortion. The Jewish fraternity condemned extortion as
a principle of tyranny.
"This fraternity, so powerful a principle, led the Jews to love
their fellow-beings, to see in them colleagues and brothers;
they received the stranger willingly, extended to him their
hospitality, even a share in the benefits of their law--something
that was foreign to all other nations. With these other nations the
stranger was regarded simply as an enemy; "enemy" and "stranger"
were expressed by one and the same word. Pantheism, denying the
principle of unity, as indicated in the Divine origin, left men in
a continual state of war. And war never ceased; the cities fought
with each other, until the strongest had subdued the others, and in
their turn were conquered and absorbed by a greater. This is the
invariable history of Greece and Rome. The dogma of Divine creation
exhibited to the Jews all men as brethren. They did not treat the
stranger therefore as a barbarian. They, the Israelites, alone of
all the nations of antiquity, did not carry on aggressive wars;
once established upon their soil, they had no other desire than to
live in peace by living out their laws. This is the object of all
their institutions. They do not make war upon the stranger, because
they had no hate against him.
"Their God, greater than the gods of the Olympus, neither flattered
nor served their passions. He was a jealous God, who exacted the
submission of the heart. He chastised his rebellious children. And
this people purified by persecution and misfortune, returned to the
laws of their fathers, to the observance of their precepts. No city
in ancient, no people in modern times could have passed through
like vicissitudes and recovered again. It is not through progress
that they endured and were capable of resistance, but by holding
fast to the past; by rallying around the law, which they had never
abandoned and which they never modified, hard as it was. It often
became irksome, it never bargained with its conscience. What
else existed, before the laws of Moses, than that paganism which
legalized all vices? The Jews defended their law with their lives;
they fought for it against the Greek kings of Syria; they preferred
to be buried under the ruins of Jerusalem to making a compact with
Roman paganism. The Greeks and Romans never had the idea that one
can die for one's religion.
"By their habits in the government of the State the Jews were
separated completely from Greece and Rome. They never brooked the
insults of the ancient or modern mobocracy, because they respected
the principle of the family, the foundation of their political,
judicial, administrative and military organization. They alone in
antiquity repudiated slavery. They practiced a national brotherhood
which the Christian people are hardly capable of comprehending;
it is so sublime, and almost beyond human nature. The institution
of the jubilee, of the seventh year, the seventh day, was the
perfection of social order; but even with Christianity these
institutions could not maintain themselves. Dispersed, reduced to
direst need and to the humiliation of exile, the Jews have never
abandoned these first principles. Tacitus remarked the close
ties of brotherhood that united them in his time. _Inter ipsos
obstinata fides_. Since then and up to this time is it not the
same sentiment? Are there many dissensions amongst them? This
moral greatness of the Jewish people made them the target of pagan
enmity. The policy of Rome was to be enforced upon all nations. The
Jews share with the Christians the honor of having been singled out
as the victims of utter extermination.
"The Jewish nation has survived all its victors; it alone, says
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, withstood the power of time, fortune and
defeat. Greece and Rome were enveloped in a system of superstition
which weighed heavily upon the actions of public and private life.
The Jews lived beyond the pale of that ignominy. The causes of this
intellectual and moral superiority became the subject of jealous
depreciation generally."
* * * * *
The essential spirit of the Jewish polity has seldom, if ever, been
more effectively portrayed than by REV. DR. HENRY M. FIELD, in his
scholarly work, _On the Desert_, published by Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, 1883. It deals with the system of law instituted by Moses,
which became ingrained in the Jewish people through long centuries of
victorious contention against barbarism in all its historic forms, and
which remains to-day the guiding principle of Jewish life in all the
relations of man to man.
We quote from Dr. Field's work as follows:
THEOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY.
"Perhaps it does not often occur to readers of the Old Testament
that there is much likeness between the Hebrew Commonwealth and the
American Republic. There are more differences than resemblances, at
least the differences are more marked. Governments change with time
and place, with the age and the country, with manners and customs;
yet at the bottom there is one radical principle that divides a
republic from a monarchy or an aristocracy; it is the natural
equality of men--that "all men are born free and equal"--which is
as fully recognized in the laws of Moses as in the Declaration of
Independence. Indeed the principle is carried further in the Hebrew
Commonwealth than in ours; for not only was there equality before
the laws, but the laws aimed to produce equality of condition in
one point, and that a vital one--the tenure of land--of which even
the poorest could not be deprived, so that in this respect the
Hebrew Commonwealth approached more nearly to a pure democracy.
"Of course the political rights of the people did not extend to the
choice of a ruler, nor did it to the making of the laws. As there
was no king but God, it was the theory of the State that the laws
emanated directly from the Almighty and his commands could not be
submitted to a vote. No clamorous populace debated with the Deity.
The Israelites had only to hear and to obey. In this sense the
government was not a popular, but an absolute one.
"But how could absolutism be consistent with equality? There is
no contradiction between the two, and indeed, in some respects,
no form of government is so favorable to equality as a theocracy.
Encroachments upon popular liberty and the oppression of the
people do not come from the head of the State so often as from
an aristocratic class which is arrogant and tyrannical. But in a
theocracy the very exaltation of the Sovereign places all subjects
on the same level. God alone is great and in His presence there is
no place for human pride. Divine Majesty overawes human littleness,
and instead of a favored few being lifted up above their fellows,
there is a general feeling of lowliness and humility, in the sight
of God, in which lies the very spirit and essence of equality.
"As the Hebrew law recognized no natural distinctions among
the people, neither did it create any artificial distinctions.
There was no hereditary class which had special rights; there
was no nobility exempted from burdens laid on the poor, and from
punishments inflicted on the peasantry. Whatever political power
was permitted to the Hebrews belonged to the people as a whole.
No man was raised above another; and if in the making of the laws
the people had no voice, yet in the administration of them they had
full power, for they elected their own rulers.
"Moses found soon after he left Egypt that he could not administer
justice in person to a whole nation, so he directed the tribes to
choose out of their number their wisest men, whom he would make
judges to decide every common cause, reserving to himself only the
more important questions. Here was a system of popular elections,
which is one of the first elements of a republican or democratic
state.
"In the administration of justice a Theocracy is an ideal
government, for it is Divinity enthroned on earth as in Heaven,
and no other form of government enforces justice in a manner so
absolute and peremptory. In the eyes of the Hebrew lawgiver the
civil tribunal was as sacred as the Holy of Holies. The office
of the judge was as truly authorized, and his duty as solemnly
enjoined, as that of the priest. The judgment is God's, said Moses,
and he who gave a false judgment disregarded the authority of Him
whose nature is justice and truth. The judgment seat was a holy
place, which no private malice might profane. Evidence was received
with religious care. Oaths were administered to give solemnity to
the testimony. Then the Judge, standing in the place of God, was to
pronounce equitably, whatever might be the rank of the contending
parties. 'Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall
hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of
the face of man, for the judgment is God's.' He recognized no
distinctions, all were alike to him. The judge was to know no
difference. He was not to be biased even by sympathy for the poor.
'Neither shall thou countenance a poor man in his cause. Thou
shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of
the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.'
Magistrates were not allowed to accept a gift; 'for the gift
blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.'
"The humanity of the Hebrew code is further seen in its mitigation
of slavery. This was a legal institution of Egypt, out of which
they had just come. They themselves had been slaves. Their
ancestors, the patriarchs, had held slaves. Abraham had over
three hundred servants born in his house. The relation of master
and slave they still recognized, but by how many limitations was
this state of bondage alleviated! No man could be subjected to
slavery by violence. Man-stealing was punished with death. The
more common causes of servitude was theft or debt. A robber might
be sold to expiate his crime, or a man overwhelmed with debt might
sell himself to pay it; that is, he might bind himself to service
for a term of years: still he could hold property, and the moment
he acquired the means might purchase back his freedom, or he
might be redeemed by his nearest kinsman. If his master treat him
with cruelty; if he beat him so as to cause injury the servant
recovered his freedom as indemnity. At the longest his servitude
came to an end in six years. He then recovered his freedom as a
natural gift; 'If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall
serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.' A
Hebrew slave was therefore merely a laborer hired for six years.
Nor did the law permit the servant to go forth in naked poverty,
and with the abject feeling of a slave still clinging to him. He
was to be loaded with presents by his late master--sheep, oil,
fruits, and wine--to enable him to begin housekeeping. Thus for
a Hebrew there was no such thing as hopeless bondage. The people
were not to feel the degradation of being slaves. God claimed them
as his own, and as such they were not to be made bondmen. Every
fiftieth year was a jubilee, a year of universal emancipation.
Then 'liberty was proclaimed throughout all the land to all the
inhabitants thereof.' This was the time of the restitution of all
things. Though a man had sold himself as a slave, his right in the
land was not alienated. It now returned to him free of encumbrance.
At the year of jubilee all debts were extinguished. His native
plot of ground, on which he played in childhood, was restored to
him in his old age. Again he cultivated the paternal acres. He was
not only a free man but a holder of property. Says Michaelis: 'The
condition of slaves among the Hebrews was not merely tolerable, but
often extremely comfortable.'
"That the sympathies of the law were with the oppressed appears
from the singular injunction that a foreign slave who fled to
a Hebrew for protection should not be given up: 'Thou shalt
not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from
his master unto thee.' No Fugitive Slave Law remanded the
terror-stricken fugitive to an angry and infuriated master and to a
condition more hopeless than before.
Such was the democracy of Theocracy--a union in which one sprang
out of the other. Men were equal because God was their Ruler--a
Ruler so high that before him there was neither great nor small,
but all stood on the same level. But the Hebrew Law did not stop
with equality; it inculcated fraternity. A man was not only
a man, he was a brother. That law contains some of the most
beautiful provisions ever recorded in any legislation, not only
for the cold administration of justice, but for the exercise of
humanity. The spirit of the Hebrew law was broader than race,
or country, or kindred. What liberality, for example, in its
treatment of foreigners. Against race hatred Moses set up this
command, 'Thou shalt not oppress a stranger,' which he enforced
upon the Israelites by the touching remembrance of their own bitter
experience, 'for ye know the heart of a stranger seeing ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.' But not only were foreigners to be
tolerated; they were to receive the fullest protection. 'Ye shall
have one manner of law as well for the stranger as for one of your
own country.'
"In several requirements we discern a pity for the brute creation.
Long before modern refinement of feeling organized societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, Moses recognized dumb beasts
as having a claim to be defended from injury. Birds' nests were
protected from wanton destruction.
"But perhaps the most beautiful provision of the law was for the
poor.
"'When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap
the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings
of thy harvests. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither
shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt have them
for the poor and the stranger.' If the reaper dropped a sheaf in
the field, he might not return to take it. Whatever olives hung
on the bough, or clusters on the vine, after the first gathering,
were the property of the stranger, the fatherless and the widow.
Under the shelter of this law came many a Ruth, gleaning the
handfuls of golden corn to carry home to her mother, who was thus
saved from utter destitution. By these means the law kept the poor
from sinking to the extreme point of misery. At the same time, by
throwing in their path these wayside gifts, it saved them from
theft or vagabondage. As a proof of its successful operation, it is
a curious fact that, in the five books of Moses, such a class as
beggars is not once mentioned. The tradition of caring for those of
their own kindred, remains to this day and it is an honorable boast
that among the swarms of beggars that throng the streets of the Old
World or the New, one almost never finds a Jew.
"The law took also under its care all whom death had deprived
of their natural protectors; 'Ye shall not afflict any widow or
fatherless child.' They were sacred by misfortune. God would punish
cruelty to them. 'If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and your wives shall be
widows and your children fatherless.'
"Thus the Hebrew law took the poor and the weak under its special
protection; death, sorrow, widowhood, orphanage, all threw a shield
of protection over the desolate and the unhappy. By this spirit of
humanity infused into the relations of life, all the members of a
community--the rich and poor, the strong and the weak--were united
in fellowship and fraternity. One sacred tie bound them still
closer; not only were they of the same race and nation, but they
had the same religious inheritance; all were fellow-citizens with
the saints and of the household of God."
* * * * *
As a supplement to Dr. Field's effective presentation of his subject
we add here, an extract from the _Christian Union_, on "Moses and his
Laws," by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE:
"The strongest impulse in the character of Moses appears to have
been that of protective justice, more particularly with regard
to the helpless and down-trodden classes. The laws of Moses, if
carefully examined, are a perfect phenomenon; an exception to the
laws of either ancient or modern nations in the care they exercised
over women, widows, orphans, paupers, foreigners, servants and dumb
animals. No so-called Christian nation but could advantageously
take a lesson in legislation from the laws of Moses. There is a
plaintive, pathetic spirit of compassion in the very language
in which the laws in favor of the helpless and suffering are
expressed, that it seems must have been learned only of superhuman
tenderness. Not the gentlest words of Jesus are more compassionate
in their spirit than many of these laws of Moses. Delivered in the
name of Jehovah, they certainly are so unlike the wisdom of that
barbarous age as to justify of them to Him who is Love."
* * * * *
Another woman of commanding authority, GEORGE ELLIOT, speaks on this
topic as follows:
"Unquestionably the Jews, having been more than any other race
exposed to the adverse moral influences of alienism, must, both in
individuals and in groups, have suffered some corresponding moral
degradation; but in fact they have escaped with less abjectness,
and less of hard hostility toward the nations whose hands have
been against them, than could have happened in the case of a
people who had neither their adhesion to a separate religion
founded on historic memories, nor their characteristic family
affectionateness. Tortured, flogged, spit upon, the _corpus vile_
on which rage or wantonness vented themselves with impunity, their
name flung at them as an opprobrium by superstition, hatred, and
contempt, they have remained proud of their origin. Does any one
call this an evil pride? The pride which identifies us with a great
historic body is a humanizing, elevating habit of mind, inspiring
sacrifices of individual comfort, gain, or other selfish ambition,
for the sake of that ideal whole; and no man swayed by such a
sentiment can become completely abject. That a Jew of Smyrna,
where a whip is carried by passengers ready to flog off the too
officious specimens of his race, can still be proud to say, 'I am
a Jew,' is surely a fact to awaken admiration in a mind capable of
understanding what we may call the ideal forces in human history.
"And again, a varied, impartial observation of the Jews in
different countries tends to the impression that they have a
predominant kindness, which must have been deeply ingrained in
the constitution of their race to have overlasted the ages of
persecution and oppression. The concentration of their joys in
domestic life has kept up in them the capacity of tenderness; the
pity for the fatherless and the widow, the care for the women and
the little ones, blent intimately with their religion, is a well of
mercy, that cannot long or widely be pent up by exclusiveness, and
the kindness of the Jew overflows the line of division between him
and the Gentile.
"On the whole, one of the most remarkable phenomena in the history
of this scattered people, made for ages 'a scorn and a hissing,' is
that, after being subjected to this process, which might have been
expected to be in every sense deteriorating and vitiating, they
have come out of it (in any estimate which allows for numerical
proportion) rivaling the nations of all European countries, in
healthiness and beauty of physique, in practical ability, in
scientific and artistic aptitude, and in some forms of ethical
value. A significant indication of their natural rank is seen in
the fact, that at this moment the leader of the Liberal party in
Germany is a Jew, the leader of the Republican party in France is a
Jew, and the head of the conservative ministry in England is a Jew."
* * * * *
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULEY (afterwards Lord Macauley) delivered a
celebrated oration in the British House of Commons on April 17, 1833,
in support of the bill for the removal of the disabilities of the Jews.
After a destructive criticism of the arguments and reasons which were
then being advanced by the opponents of liberalism, arguments which
have since then been so completely outlived as to be no longer, in
any Anglo-Saxon community, deemed worthy of consideration, the great
statesman concluded his masterly presentation in a lucid statement and
eloquent peroration, as follows:
"Whatever the sect be which it is proposed to tolerate, the
peculiarities of that sect will, for the time, be pronounced by
intolerant men to be the most odious and dangerous that can be
conceived. As to the Jews, that they are unsocial as respects
religion is true; and so much the better; for surely, as
Christians, we cannot wish that they should bestir themselves to
pervert us from our own faith.
"But that the Jews would be unsocial members of the civil
community, if the civil community did its duty by them, has never
been proved. My right honorable friend who made the motion which we
are discussing has produced a great body of evidence to show that
they have been grossly misrepresented; and that evidence has not
been refuted by my honorable friend, the member for the University
of Oxford.
"But what if it were true that the Jews are unsocial? What if it
were true that they do not regard England as their country? Would
not the treatment which they have undergone explain and excuse
their antipathy to the society in which they live? Has not similar
antipathy often been felt by persecuted Christians to the society
which persecuted them?
"While the bloody code of Elizabeth was enforced against the
English Roman Catholics, what was the patriotism of Roman
Catholics? Oliver Cromwell said that in his time they were
Espaniolized. At a later period it might have been said that
they were Gallicised. It was the same with the Calvinists. What
more deadly enemies had France in the day of Louis XIV, than the
persecuted Huguenots?
"But would any rational man infer from these facts that either the
Roman Catholic as such, or the Calvinist as such, is incapable
of loving the land of his birth? If England were now invaded by
Roman Catholics, how many English Roman Catholics would go over to
the invader? If France were now attacked by a Protestant enemy,
how many French Protestants would lend him help? Why not try what
effect would be produced on the Jews by that tolerant policy which
has made the English Roman Catholic a good Englishman and the
French Calvinist a good Frenchman?
"Another charge has been brought against the Jews, not by my
honorable friend, the member for the University of Oxford--he
has too much learning and too much good feeling to make such a
charge--but by the honorable member for Oldham, who has, I am sorry
to see, quitted his place.
"The honorable member for Oldham tells us that the Jews are
naturally a mean race, a money-getting race; that they are averse
to all honorable callings; that they neither sow nor reap; that
they have neither flocks nor herds; that usury is the only pursuit
for which they are fit; that they are destitute of all elevated and
amiable sentiments.
"Such, sir, has in every age been the reasoning of bigots. They
never fail to plead in justification of persecution the vices which
persecution has engendered. England has been, legally, a home to
the Jews less than half a century, and we revile them because they
do not feel for England more than a half patriotism.
"We treat them as slaves, and wonder that they do not regard us as
brethren. We drive them to mean occupations, and then reproach them
for not embracing honorable professions. We long forbade them to
possess land, and we complain that they chiefly occupy themselves
in trade. We shut them out from all the paths of ambition, and then
we despise them for taking refuge in avarice.
"During many ages we have, in all our dealings with them, abused
our immense superiority of force, and then we are disgusted
because they have recourse to that cunning which is the natural
and universal defense of the weak against the violence of the
strong. But were they always a mere money-changing, money-getting,
money-hoarding race? Nobody knows better than my honorable friend,
the member for the University of Oxford, that there is nothing in
their national character which unfits them for the highest duties
of citizens.
"He knows that, in the infancy of civilization, when our island was
as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown
to Athens, when scarcely a thatched hut stood on what was afterward
the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities
and cedar palaces, their splendid temple, their fleets of merchant
ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and
soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their
poets.
"What nation ever contended more manfully against overwhelming
odds for its independence and religion? What nation ever, in its
last agonies, gave such signal proofs of what may be accomplished
by a brave despair? And if, in the course of many centuries, the
depressed descendants of warriors and sages have degenerated
from the qualities of their fathers, if, while excluded from the
blessings of law and bowed down under the yoke of slavery, they
have contracted some of the vices of outlaws and slaves, shall we
consider this as a matter of reproach to them?
"Shall we not rather consider it as a matter of shame and remorse
to ourselves? Let us do justice to them. Let us open to them the
door of the House of Commons. Let us open to them every career
in which ability and energy can be displayed. Till we have done
this, let us not presume to say that there is no genius among the
countrymen of Isaiah, no heroism among the descendants of the
Maccabees.
"Sir, in supporting the motion of my honorable friend, I am, I
firmly believe, supporting the honor and the interest of the
Christian religion. I should think that I insulted that religion
if I said that it cannot stand unaided by intolerant laws. Without
such laws it was established, and without such laws it may be
maintained.
"It triumphed over the superstitions of the most refined and of
the most savage nations, over the graceful mythology of Greece and
the bloody idolatry of the northern forests. It prevailed over
the power and policy of the Roman Empire. It tamed the barbarians
by whom that empire was overthrown. But all these victories were
gained, not by the help of intolerance, but in spite of the
opposition of intolerance.
"The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little
indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from
persecution as an ally. May she long continue to bless our country
with her benignant influence, strong in her sublime philosophy,
strong in her spotless morality, strong in those internal and
external evidences to which the most powerful and comprehensive of
human intellects have yielded assent, the last solace of those who
have outlived every earthly hope, the last restraint of those who
are raised above every earthly fear!
"But let us not, mistaking her character and her interests, fight
the battle of truth with the weapons of error, and endeavor to
support by oppression that religion which first taught the human
race the great lesson of universal charity."
* * * * *
Here is an utterance on this subject by OTTO VON BISMARCK. This man,
whose iron hand puddled the smelt of the furnace wherein, with fire
and blood, the German people were fused into political unity, was--or
rather, is, for he is yet living, and will long remain a power--this
man is no friend of the Jews. His spirit crystallized, and his
nature drew its inspiration out of the time when "_Polen, Juden und
Franzosen_" were a trinity of bugbears for the worshippers of royal
divinity in Europe. Bismarck never fully recovered from that nightmare
of his youth and early manhood, but he towered above his fellows, and
he had the faculty of perceiving the truth and a habit of telling it
which, notwithstanding his diplomatic training, he was wont to indulge.
In a notable debate in the Prussian Landtag during the session of 1871,
he expressed himself as follows:
"In my position as President of the Ministry I must repudiate any
obligation to fill the places in the civil service with Roman
Catholics according to their proportionate number in the population
of the country.... The existence of a distinctively religious body
in a political assembly is in itself a monstrous phenomenon....
This tends to make religion the subject of parliamentary
debates.... I adhere to the principle that every religion should
be allowed perfect freedom, without considering it, for that
reason, necessary that it should be represented in the executive
departments in the same ratio as in the population. Every religious
body would have as much right as the Catholics to claim this; the
Lutherans as well as the Jews, and _I have found that it is the
latter particularly who are most distinguished by their special
intelligence and capacity for administrative functions_."
* * * * *
As an estimate of Jewish citizenship by a man whose life experience has
afforded him a rare insight into social and political conditions on
both sides of the Atlantic, we quote the following expression by CARL
SCHURZ, on the occasion of the dedication of the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids, in New York City:
"Honor to the men and women who have accomplished this and who are
bound to accomplish still more. They do honor to the community
which calls them its own; for any community, whatever its
pretensions, will be honored by citizens who take so high a view of
their duties to humanity.
"And who are these citizens? They are Jews. This is not the only
monument the Jews of New York have planted to their benevolence
and public spirit. There are others--some even far exceeding this
in costliness and grandeur. But none--none of their own and none
instituted by any other class of citizens excels it, nay, perhaps
none equals it in beauty of sentiment and devotion. And for whom is
this done? Hear the noble words of the President of the Society as
found in last year's report: 'As Israelites we are compelled, both
by circumstances and inclination, to provide for the needy of our
own faith; but this must not induce us to exclude any human being
because of his religious belief from the benefit of an institution
charged with the improvement of bodily ailment.' Thus it is done
for the brotherhood of men. This is the true spirit, worthy of
him whose name this edifice bears. It is the spirit, too, which
more than any other, has created the brightest, the most stainless
glories of our great American Republic--the spirit which, without
any governmental action, out of the spontaneous initiative of the
patriotic citizen, through private munificence, through individual
solicitude for the welfare of all, has covered this land all over
with educational institutions and enterprises of benevolence. In
our school days we read of the Roman matron Cornelia, who, when
other noble ladies exhibited to her their stores of pearls and
precious stones, called in her children, and pointing to them,
said: 'These are my jewels.' So when the Old World shows to us the
magnificence of its baronial halls and royal castles, the American
Republic may point to her colleges and hospitals and asylums
founded by the patriotic generosity of simple citizens, and say,
'These are my palaces.'
"And to entitle the American people to this proud distinction,
the Jews have done as much as any other class of citizens--nay, I
may repeat in their presence what I have frequently said in the
presence of others--the Jews have, in proportion to their numbers,
done far more. I repeat this with all the greater willingness, as
I have recently had occasion to observe the motive springs, the
character and the aims of the so-called "anti-Semitic" movement, a
movement whose dark spirit of fanaticism and persecution insults
the humane enlightenment of the 19th century; whose appeals are
addressed to the stupidest prejudice and the blindest passion,
whose injustice affronts every sense of fairness and decency and
whose cowardice--for cowardice is an essential element in the
attempt to suppress the competing energies of a mere handful of
people--whose cowardice I say, should provoke the contempt of every
self-respecting man.
"In the face of this movement, which for years has stirred some
European countries, and thrown its shadows even across the ocean,
upon our shores, it is most grateful to the human heart to hear
the President of the Montefiore Home say, that while this roof
is to shelter the neediest of Israel, no human being because of
his religious belief shall be excluded from its protection. He
might take the clamorous anti-Semitic by the hand, show him the
hospitals, orphans homes, charity schools, founded and sustained
by Jewish money, Jewish labor, Jewish public spirit, benevolence
and devotion and say to him: 'If you have any sick, any aged,
any children who cannot find help elsewhere, here we shall have
room for them, and they are welcome.' What has the anti-Semite to
answer? No, no, that movement cannot survive. It must perish in
shame. It will be consigned to an ignominious grave by the generous
impulses of human nature and the civilization of this age. And what
will remain will be the beneficent influence and the sweet memory
of such good actions as yours, and the brotherhood of mankind."
* * * * *
On the same occasion as that noted above, the opening of the Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids, HON. ABRAM S. HEWITT, Mayor of New York
City, spoke as follows:
"No other people, so far as I have observed, no sect or
denomination or party have done so much as the Jews, to relieve
distress, give education and elevate the standard of morality
in our midst, and I make that statement after a good deal of
observation and attention, particularly that part of it concerning
the subject of education.
"I have never found the Jews lacking in public spirit. It is said
of them that they have the art of getting wealth. If but a part
of what is said of them be true, they understand well the use of
wealth when once acquired. They are found among the first admirers
of art, they love music and have since the daughters of Judah hung
their harps on the willows by the waters of Babylon.
"This charity is unique, and it is a link in the chain of Jewish
institutions. So long as there are calls by suffering humanity, the
Jews will year by year add new links to their beautiful chain until
it embraces every need of society regardless of race and religion.
"I have read at the door as I entered, that the Israelites erected
this building to the chronic sick in honor of Moses Montefiore, a
Jew, who for nearly a hundred years set an example to other people
and creeds of a broad charity that affects all people and all lands.
"This institution was one long wanted in New York for a class
for whom there is no hope save such offered by the poor-house
or Blackwell's Island. They were here given instead a home in
which love reigned and religion presided, religion which opened
the portals of the other world where all must go, rich and poor,
Jew and Christian, where reigns the Heavenly Father whose chosen
people have proven steadfast amid all oppression and persecution,
and who has so long preserved them, but who nevertheless knows no
difference between His children."
* * * * *
From a deeply thoughtful address before the Young Men's Hebrew
Association of Philadelphia, by JUDGE F. CARROLL BREWSTER, on the
Valley of Baca as referred to in Psalm lxxxiv, we quote the following
as the expression of a Nestor among jurists:
"Perhaps, then, the very dreariness of this barren place was
intended as a prophecy of the woes which God's chosen people should
encounter on their march through the history of many ages. And the
water to be found in the midst of this desolation might prefigure
the refreshing deliverance which the centuries were to bring. Of
bitterness and of persecution, of suffering beyond man's power
to describe, of its depth, of all that is sad and sorrowful, the
history of the Jewish nation bears tearful testimony. The student
has two marvels, as he turns these weary pages of the very monotony
of cruelty. He wonders how the ferocity of man could ever enact
this horrible tragedy, and then he wonders how the race survived.
"It would be a vain and painful task to recite here the thousandth
part of what history tells us, and it is certain that history does
not, in this case as in many others, falsify the facts. These
narratives were all written by the actors who took a horrid pride
in recounting their own infamy. The man who has but a moderate
installment of feeling in his breast must cry out with indignation
as he reads of these outrages. To the jurist they are especially
repugnant, for they tell not only of the slaughter of human beings,
but of the murder of justice."
* * * * *
The following is from the pen of GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, the life-long
editor of "Harper's Weekly" and "Harper's Magazine." As a prominent
actor in the stirring events of his generation he has left a marked
impress on our national life, but great as was his influence in the
councils of the nation he was yet best known to the large mass of the
American people as the genial, persuasive writer of the "Easy Chair"
in the magazine which he so ably edited. The extract which we print is
from that department of Harper's Magazine, where it appeared in July,
1877, vol. 55, p. 300.
WHAT WE OWE TO THE JEWS.
"One beautiful June evening in Paris the 'Easy Chair' strolled
with a friend into a café on the Boulevard. They had been to hear
'Robert le Diable' at the French Opera, and gaily humming and
gossiping they sat upon the broad walk that was still thronged on
the still summer night. Presently a dark-haired man came quietly
along and seated himself at a table near by. He was alone, and
seemed not to care for recognition. He was simply dressed and was
entirely unnoticeable except for the strong Jewish lines of his
intellectual face. The 'Easy Chair's' companion whispered, 'That
is the man to whom we owe the delight of this evening; that is
Meyerbeer.' After a little while he added with feeling, 'How much
we owe to the Jews and how mean Christendom is!'
"It was remarkable how much of the conspicuous work and influence
on that evening was due to the genius of a people whose name is
so constantly used as a word of reproach. A few months before,
Mendelssohn had been buried in Leipsic, and in Berlin the 'Easy
Chair' had heard the memorial concert of his music at the
Sing-Akademie. Rossini was still living, and Verdi was writing
operas, but Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer were the recognized masters
of music. The evening before, the 'Easy Chair' had seen the Jewess
Rachel in 'Phedre'--the one woman who contests the laurel with
Mrs. Siddons, and who was then the great living actress. Beyond
the channel, Disraeli, the child of Spanish Jews, was just about
to kiss hands as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to become the
political leader of the British Tories. In the vast city in which
they were sitting, the 'Easy Chair' knew that the Jewish Heine
was living, breathing his weird and melancholy song, while in
Paris and London and Frankfort and Vienna the great masters of
the mainspring of industrial activity, the capitalists, who held
peace and war in their hands, and by whose favor kings ruled, were
Jews. The philosophy, the arts, the industry, the politics of
Christendom were full of the Jewish genius, the gayety of nations,
the delight of scholars, the scepters of princes, the movements of
civilization, hung in great degree upon it. It is as true to-day
as in that long summer night, and the words of the 'Easy Chair's'
friend are still as shamefully true. 'How mean Christendom is!'
"Recently in New York an estimable and accomplished gentleman
was rejected as a member of the Bar Association 'for no other
reason that can be conceived,' indignantly said one of the leading
members, 'except that he was a Jew.' Doubtless a few votes would
procure the rejection. But the Association is not a social club,
and presumptively a man who is an honorable member of the Bar is
a fit member of the Association. The few hostile votes, however,
represent the prejudice. It is very old and very universal. To the
audience of to-day there is nothing in Shakespeare more vital and
intelligible than the fervent appeal of 'Shylock' to the common
humanity of the world around him. The Jew is still separate, and
the prejudice which has pursued him for generations is but slightly
relaxed. The lines of demarcation are fine. They are often almost
invisible. But they are deep, and apparently absolute. It is one
of the most common and most tenacious of the objections to 'Daniel
Deronda' that it deals with Jews and Jewish life and character.
The fact is sometimes almost resented as an offence to the mass of
readers. Even in 'Ivanhoe,' although torrents of Christian tears
have flowed over the closing pages, where the noble and beautiful
'Rebecca' asks to see the face of the fair 'Rowena,' yet such
is the fell and weird outlaw of the Jew from general sympathy,
that the catastrophe seems to be an inevitable fate. There is no
doubt that this prejudice is as cruel in its effects as it is
unreasonable in its origin....
"The legend of the 'Wandering Jew' has a pathos beyond the usual
interpretation. The story is told that the Jew, who refused to
comfort Christ as he toiled under the weight of the cross, was
condemned to tarry until he came, and so wanders around the
world until the second coming. But it is the symbol also of the
restlessness of the race, roaming through Christendom, homeless
and rejected. It is the curse, says many a Christian heart, of
the people that crucified the Redeemer. This is the common theory
of the origin of the traditional antipathy to the Jews, and,
undoubtedly, this is with many persons a vague justification of
the feeling with which a Jew is regarded. But should it be nothing
to such persons that when, as they believe, the Creator would
incarnate himself, He became a Jew? Or, again, do they reflect
that if it was in the eternal decrees that the sins of men were
to be atoned and condoned by the innocent sacrifice, those who
accomplished the sacrifice were but the agents of the Divine
will? Are all such ingenious speculations other than devices to
explain and justify a mere prejudice of race, such as some African
tribes cherish against people of white skins? Those who find in
such prejudice a profound significance will continue to plead
the feeling as its own sufficient reason. But honorable men will
be careful how they carelessly use the name of a race to which
the religion, the literature, the art, the civilized progress of
humanity, are so greatly indebted, as a term of utter derision and
scorn."
* * * * *
Mr. Curtis in his reference to Shakespeare's "Shylock" truly says that
"there is nothing in Shakespeare more vital and intelligible than the
fervent appeal of Shylock to the common humanity around him." Much
has been said and written concerning this remarkable creation of the
dramatist's genius, and often and again it has been remarked that
Shakespeare's Jew was not the real Jew, not even the Jew of his own
imagination, but the Jew as mirrored in the distorted consciousness
of mediæval Europe. The great pathologist of human feeling only then
failed in his diagnosis when he sought to realize the Jew, the real Jew
and his attributes were beyond his ken.
One of the grandest and most cherished of our poets, WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT, long the editor of the New York _Evening Post_, in a trenchant
criticism of the character of Shylock on the occasion of a presentation
of the drama by Edwin Booth, wrote as follows:[118]
"In terming Shylock 'the Jew whom Shakespeare drew,' there is a
perfect logic, for Shylock is, of all Shakespeare's characters, the
only one untrue to nature. He is not a Jew, but a fiend presented
in the form of one; and whereas he is made a ruling type, he is but
an exception, if even that, and the exception is not to be met with
either in the Ghettos of Venice or of Rome. Shakespeare holds up
the love of money that marks the race, although he does not show
that this passion was but the effect of that persecution which, by
crowding the Jew out of every honorable pursuit, and thus cutting
off his nature from every sympathy with the world around, sharpened
and edged the keen corners of his brain for the only pursuit left
to him.
"It is true that money-changers once spat on in the Ghetto are now
hugged in the palace. But we fear that it is not so much that the
prejudice against the Jews has ceased, but that the love of money
among the Christians has increased. Shakespeare was not true in the
picture he has drawn of the Jew's cravings for revenge, and in the
contempt with which he is treated by his daughter. Revenge is not a
characteristic of the Jew. He is subject to sudden fits of passion,
but that intellect which always stands sentinel over the Hebrew
soon subdues the gust. However strong in Shylock's time might have
been the hatred of the Jew towards the Christian, the lust of lucre
was more strong, and Shakespeare might have ransacked every Ghetto
in Christendom without finding a Jew, or a Christian either, who
would have preferred a pound of flesh to a pound sterling; and Jews
also shrink from physical contests. Their disposition is to triumph
by intellect rather than violence. It was this trait more than any
other that rendered them, in the Middle Ages, so repulsive to the
masses, who were all of the Morrissey and muscular Christianity
school. The contempt of a daughter for her parent is equally
uncharacteristic of the Jew. The Jews are universally admired for
the affections which adorn their domestic life. The more they have
been pushed from the society of the family of man the greater has
been the intensity with which they have clung to the love of their
own family.
"No one can ever have visited the houses of the Jews without having
been struck by the glowing affection with which the daughter greets
the father as he returns from the day's campaign and the slights and
sneers his gaberdine and yellow cap provoke, and without observing
how those small, restless eyes that sparkle and gleam, shine out in
a softened, loving lustre as they fall upon the face of Rebecca, or
Jessica, or Sarah, and how he stands no longer with crooked back,
but erect and commanding, as he blesses his household gods with an
exultation as vehement as the prejudices which during the day have
galled and fretted his nature. To do justice to the grandeurs of the
Jewish race, and to brand with infamy its infirmities, it is not enough
to produce a repulsive delineation of the latter. It would only be just
to give expression to the former, and to exhibit that superiority of
intellect which has survived all persecution, and which, soaring above
the prejudices of the hour, has filled us with reluctant admiration on
finding how many of the great events which mark the progress of the age
or minister to its improvements, or elevate its tastes, may be traced
to the wonderful workings of the soul of the Hebrew, and the supremacy
of that spiritual nature which gave to mankind its noblest religion,
its noblest laws, and some of its noblest poesy and music."
* * * * *
Treating the same subject the great German critic, ROBERT BENEDIX,
writes as follows:[119]
"Let us look at this Shylock closer. Antonio calls him an usurer;
the proof he fails in. Shylock takes high interest; so did all the
merchants of Venice. Shylock deals in money; to-day we call him a
banker. Why does he deal in money? Because it is the only trade
permitted. He does not carry on an industry, has no agricultural
pursuits, no official station--only trade. If the Jews, under
centuries of restriction, ostracised from social life, did cling
to money and its uses, whose fault was it? No one can say anything
dishonorable of Shylock. He is penurious; in no law-book of the
world is that denominated as a crime. What is against this man?
Simply nothing more than that he is a Jew. But for the poet, who,
enthroned on Olympian heights, there should exist only _the man,
not the Jew_. Shylock is revengeful. Well, who has instigated it?
Only they who have despised him. After persecuting and deriding
him, they crown their infamy by asking him to turn Christian. That
is the very depth of baseness. What is left to the poor Jew, whom
you have trodden under foot, when you rob him of his faith? It is
the bond that binds him to his fathers, to his home. It has been
his solace in persecutions a thousand times repeated. To this faith
Israel clings with devoted love, and from this faith shall Shylock
turn to become a Christian? No wonder he turns with abhorrence from
those who torture him so cruelly. Christians they may be. Men they
are not. And is there no feeling for a father? To exalt a daughter
who absconds and robs him whom she should honor? Is that Jewish
or Christian? The grand speech, 'Has not a Jew eyes,' etc., is
the exclamation of a martyr people who for centuries had been the
victims of debauched, bigoted priests.
"It is impossible to acquit Shakespeare of the prejudice of his
age. He has morally sinned; artistically erred. Contrast Lessing;
and he wrote in an age of equal intolerance. His 'Nathan the Wise'
is an embodiment of morality and sublime virtues; his figures are
apostles of true humanity. Nathan is an evangelist of true worth;
and Lessing, taking for his hero a Jew, made thereby the amende
honorable in the name of humanity."
* * * * *
As a veritable anti-climax to these utterances of poet and critic, we
may here consider the views of the representative proletary of America,
who deals with the Shylock theme from an entirely different standpoint.
This dissertation is by Mr. TERRENCE V. POWDERLY, long the leader of
the organization of wage-earners known as the Knights of Labor, and
as such will command the attention of the reader. Under the caption
of "_The Real Shylock_," he writes in the _Journal of the Knights of
Labor_ as follows:
"Flings at the Jews are flying about promiscuously on every hand,
and it seems to me that this practice is neither just nor manly.
Turn the pages of history backward to the dawn of Christianity
and notice how the Jew has been persecuted by those who professed
to be actuated by Christian charity. Notice how he has been
driven from country and home, how he has been driven ahead of
the advanced guard of Christianity, and then pause for a moment
to ask if the Christian is not in some small measure to blame
for the money-lending characteristics of the Jew of this day and
generation. Driven from all other branches of trade, with a price
on his head, and his home at the mercy of others, how could the Jew
protect himself? It is well enough to single out Rothschild and
to point to him as a fit representative of an usury-taking class,
but when he is pointed to as 'Rothschild the Jew,' the bounds of
propriety are overstepped and common justice is violated.
"What right has a Christian to drive a man from every walk in life
but that of money-lending and then insult his race and religion
because of that fact, in sneeringly calling him a Jew. It is
proper to call a money-lender a 'Shylock,' for that is a term that
is applicable to men of all races and religions if they practice
usury, but to single the Jew out as the only one who should wear
that appellation is an outrage. I know Christians, and the reader
knows them, who on every Sunday morning will walk slowly down the
middle aisle in the Christian church, and with sanctimonious mien
bend the knee before the altar of God with no more of Christianity
in their hearts than may be found in the stone steps leading up
to the church door. If a living representative of 'Shylock' is to
be singled out, one whose talon-like fingers itch for usury and
stretch out toward your pocket for the principal as well, let us
be honest enough to admit that we can throw a stone into any of
our temples of Christianity and hit such a sinner. Do not lay it
all to the Jew. I admit that he knows how to deal in money, but,
who gave him points in the game of usury? Look over the United
States to-day. Contrast the acts of pretended Christians with the
principles of Christ, and then dare to lay the blame of all the
wrong that usury has wrought, to the door of the Jew. Look at our
American Congress and tell us if those who obey the voice of greed
in that body are all Jews.... Are all who have cornered lands,
railroads and homes Jews? Let the reader whose home is mortgaged
inquire who it is holds the mortgage, and if he happens to be a
Christian, as in nine cases out of ten he will be, ask him to be
lenient with you, and you will learn that he wants his 'pound
of flesh,' and will be anxious to go old Shylock one better, by
sucking the blood along with it."
* * * * *
_The Jewish Question and the Mission of the Jews_, published by
Harper and Brothers, New York, 1894, contributes a valuable addition
to historical literature. The work ably elucidates its comprehensive
subject matter and deserves the careful perusal of every student of
whatever creed. A few characteristic extracts are collated in the
following:--
"If we turn to Europe, in which we are chiefly interested, we find
that the Jews were settled there as early as Roman times, and
lived on terms of perfect equality with all their neighbors, until
religious intolerance set itself to repress them or directed and
intensified the jealousy which their success elicited. When the
west of Europe was raised out of its barbarism by Charlemagne,
this great leader of modern civilization also took account of the
valuable civilizing influence of the Jews, especially as regarded
commerce and learning. He granted them privileges, and even made
use of them for diplomatic services; and as he transplanted learned
men from Italy into France and Germany in order that their wisdom
might be diffused among those people, so he also desired to engraft
the learning of the Jews in these districts. He encouraged them
to found Talmudic Schools and transplanted from Lucca the learned
family Kalonymos to Narbonne about the year 787, gave them a large
tract of land, where the chief of the family and his successors
were called princes, while the part of the town where they lived
was called 'The Court of the King of the Jew.' The position which
the Jew, Isaac, held in the embassy of Charlemange to Haroun al
Rashid is a matter of history."
* * * * *
"As to the pluck and courage of the Jews it certainly did not die
out with the Maccabees and the Zealots. I will not mention the
spiritual courage it required for the whole race to survive at
all during the persecutions which might have been avoided by the
simple act of conversion, or of the thousands that burned at the
stake singing. I should say, even numerically, more than the whole
Christian martyrology has to show. The numbers who heroically
during the Spanish Inquisition, and at other times and places,
preferred burning at the stake to baptism, the perfidy which often
met their heroic resistance, would fill volumes. In the history of
the Spanish Jews more than in that of any other of their numerous
communities do we meet with heroism, courage and chivalry. They
fought, in the Spanish battles as the bravest knights. Alfonso X
of Castile, rewarded them en masse for their war-like assistance
against Seville and gave them, when the enemies' land was divided,
a village which was called "Aldea de los Judeos." They fought
desperately for Dom Pedro, even after the Black Prince had forsaken
him, defended Burgos to the last man, so that even their opponent,
Dom Enrico, recognized publicly their valor."
* * * * *
"Even in Germany during the Black Death and the butchery of Jews,
and in Poland, the spirit of the Maccabees and the Zealots had
not forsaken them. It very often met with the basest treachery on
the part of their enemies and allies. One instance is a striking,
if not a typical one. During the onslaught of the Cossacks into
Poland in the Thirty Years' War the Jews were brave defenders of
the Polish territory. When a horde of Hadamaks attacked the town
of Tulczyn, six thousand Christians and about two thousand Jews
retreated to the fortress. Nobles and Jews pledged themselves by
oath to defend the fortress to the last man. The Cossacks resorted
to a stratagem, and assured the Nobles that they were only fighting
against their real enemies, the Jews. If they were handed over to
them they would withdraw. The nobles asked the Jews to give up
their arms; and when they complied, they opened the gates to the
Cossacks. When the Cossacks had plundered the Jews, they proposed
to them the alternative of death or baptism. Not one of them
accepted the latter, and they were put to the sword. But the nobles
suffered the same fate, as the Cossacks held that there was no
cause to hold faith by the faithless."
* * * * *
"The late James Russell Lowell was wont to say that a large
proportion of the great families of the English aristocracy had
some admixture of Jewish blood, while some of the great names
were in a direct line to be traced back to Jewish ancestors. So,
for instance, he believed, and he must have had good grounds for
his belief, that the families of the Cecils and the Russells were
originally Jewish. Of course such conversational statements must
not be taken literally. Many years ago I met a Russian scholar,
deeply read in literature and science--the pure Russian, without
any associations with Jews--who told me he was engaged upon a work
which set itself the task of tracing the origin of most of the
great men in letters and science that were then living in Germany,
and that he was coming to the conclusion that, not only were a
great many of them actually Jews, but that a large proportion
of the best known among the Christian dignitaries had also some
admixture of Jewish blood."
* * * * *
Our symposium could not be more effectively and fitly rounded out than
by a quotation of the Preface to M. Anatole Leroy Beaulieu's celebrated
work, "_Israel chez les nations_," and of the Preface written by the
author for the English translation by Mrs. Theodore Hellman, which has
just been announced as soon to be published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's
Son's, New York. M. Leroy Beaulieu, whose mastery of the philosophy of
history has commanded universal recognition, makes clear his standpoint
in the preface to the original work, and in the preface to the English
translation he evinces his thorough insight, not only into his general
subject, but furthermore into its American phases especially.
We copy these extracts from the columns of the _American Hebrew_, New
York, September 13, 1895, and from its editorial reference to the
subject we gladly quote the concluding paragraph, as follows:
"The publication of M. Leroy Beaulieu's work in its English dress
will be timely for two reasons: Its Jewish readers will find it
an eloquent appeal for renewed devotion to the noble cause of
Israel's mission; its Christian readers, recognizing the important
part Judaism has played in the production of our present-day
civilization, will recognize how baseless is the prejudice that
reigns against the Jew. May the book find many readers."
FOOTNOTES:
[118] See note, next page.
[119] These citations are gleaned from the notable lecture by
Hon. Simon Wolf, on "The Influence of the Jews on the Progress of the
World," delivered before the Schiller Bund in Washington, April 1st,
1888.
ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS.
THE PREFACES TO M. LEROY-BEAULIEU'S "_Israel chez les nations_."
[_Copyrighted, 1895, by_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.]
I. PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL WORK.
The author of this book is a Christian and a Frenchman. As a
Christian, he is one of those who believe that a spirit of
intolerance is repugnant to Christianity, and nothing appears to
him less consistent with the Gospel than race-hatred. Be it a war
of races or a war of classes, popular jealousy can never screen
itself behind the robe of Christ. Be it Aryan or Semitic, a nation
should never purchase its salvation at the cost of another's rights.
As a Frenchman, the author is one of those who are convinced that
France ought to remain true to her traditions of justice and
liberty. They are the only glory and the only wealth which the
fortunes of war cannot wrest from her. The more severe the trials
that she has undergone, the more menacing the dangers that await
her, the more essential is it to her honor that she should remain
herself and not belie, in the eyes of the nations, those great
ideas which she was the first to proclaim. To abjure them would
be not only an act of apostasy, but a forfeiture of her place in
history. A France that should stoop, more than a century after
1789, to abridge religious and civil liberty and to establish among
her inhabitants distinctions based upon name or birth, would no
longer be the France that the world has thus far known.
The inheritance of the Revolution, which we have come to regard
with so much reverence, may possibly include rash postulates and
exaggerated inferences that tend to intoxicate, almost to madness,
a people infatuated with its title of sovereign; but surely neither
religious liberty nor civil equality is likely to produce such
effects; neither the one nor the other can have any tendency to
turn the people's heads; and, after having been the first to preach
these principles to Europe, France will not disavow them now, when,
thanks to our propaganda or our example, they have conquered almost
all the countries of both hemispheres. On others be the shame of
such a recantation!
Anti-Semitism is consistent with neither the principles nor
the genius of our nation. It came to us from the outside, from
countries which have neither our spirit nor our traditions. It came
to us from across the Rhine, from old Germany, always ready for
religious quarrels, and always imbued with the spirit of caste;
from new Germany, all inflated with race-pride and scornful of
whatever is not Teutonic.
Anti-Semitism may be traced also to Russia, to that huge and
shapeless Russia, which, with its steppes and forests, has remained
isolated from the great currents of modern life; to holy, Orthodox
Russia, half Oriental, half Asiatic, which endeavors to find
its national unity in its religious unity, and which regards
the Catholic and the Lutheran with little more favor than the
Israelite; to that autocratic Russia, which differs from us in
all its institutions, as well as in all its conditions, be they
economic, political, religious or social. Whatever sympathy we may
feel with the Slavonic mind or the Russian spirit, the Russians,
who so often emulated us, would be greatly surprised to see us
copying them; as well might one propose to the Czar to model the
government of his moujiks and cossacks on that of the French
Republic.
Men of my age, who have grown up under the Second Empire and in the
worship of liberty--it was fashionable then among the young--have
witnessed many distressing sights. How often was the lie given to
our youthful faith in right and justice! How many truths which we
thought established forever were again called into question by the
selfish passions or the ignorant claims of new generations! How
many of the conquests won by reason and liberty were we unable
to maintain against the encroachments of power or the delusions
of political sophistry! Popular rights trodden under foot in the
name of the principle of nationality, everywhere heralded as a
principle of emancipation; European states transformed, for half a
century, into entrenched camps and separated once more from each
other by custom-house barriers and ramparts of prejudice almost
as high as the Wall of China; freedom of thought and religious
toleration cynically overridden or hypercritically evaded by those
very political parties that professed to be their champions; laws
passed to the detriment of special persons; decrees of exile or
confiscation promulgated in the name of liberty, within so-called
free countries and by self-styled liberals; appeals to secular
power, demands for legal restriction, for paternalism, addressed to
the government by all manner of clashing interests and passions.
And all this, not only in Eastern Russia, buried neck-deep in the
Middle Ages or rather in the ancien régime, but in the West, in
France, in Germany, among nations said to be the most advanced of
ancient Europe. Oh, how old she is, this ancient Europe, and how
difficult it is for her to slough her skin and regain her youth!
What an effort it is for her to strip off her old prejudices and
practices and clothe herself in the spirit of a new age!
And this new age, the age that we have so ardently invoked, what
will it bring us and how will it fulfil its boasted promises?
To judge by the methods and the teachings extolled by those who
proclaim themselves its representatives, this new age is in great
danger of reviving the worst practices of the past. Men who
boast of being the pioneers of the future openly praise deeds
of absolutism, and smile sanctimoniously at legal brutalities
borrowed from the _ancien régime_ by the jurists of the Revolution.
Visions of the future and mediæval prejudices; Utopias conceived
by dreamers deluded with misty ideals and belated memories of a
superannuated past; unceasing race-competition and ever-recurring
class jealousies, all these have become confused and entangled in
the minds of the learned as well as in those of the masses. And
something of all this is contained in anti-Semitism; something of
the old and of the new, of the far-off Middle Ages and of visionary
socialism, of reactionary instincts and of revolutionary passions;
and it is because of this that anti-Semitism finds an echo in
such different quarters, from the drawing-rooms of society to the
grog-shop of the working-man.
Let us confess it once again: we have presumed too much on reason,
and relied too confidently on civilization. This brilliant
civilization, which inspires our idlers with such ludicrous pride,
is often shallow and unsound, even in the most advanced countries
of the continent. In our proudest capitals it is barely thicker
than a light veneer, underneath whose surface, if we scratch it
ever so little, we shall find all the ignorance and savagery of the
ages that we deem barbarous. Thus, in Paris, Vienna and Berlin, the
close of our century suffers the disgrace of seeing measures of
proscription and confiscation advocated by people who are really
good-natured and ordinarily harmless.
It must not be inferred from what has been said that the complaints
of the anti-Semites are wholly imaginary. By no means. Whether
they attack our private or our public morals and customs, many
of their complaints are but too well founded. Abroad, as well as
at home, and most especially, perhaps, in our republic France,
they are right, these noisy anti-Semites, in loudly denouncing
certain governmental methods, certain practices which seem about
to take root in the life of modern nations. Anti-Semitism may have
been, in its time, a protest, on the part of public conscience,
against culpable concessions of men in office, against the venality
of politicians, and the domination, at once mysterious and
contemptuous, of stock-jobbing interlopers. Despite its excesses
and outrages, anti-Semitism is within its rightful province when it
assails the worship of money, the scandalous barter of political
influences, and the shameless exploitation of the people by the men
whom they have elected; or, again, when it unmasks the hypocritical
intolerance of inconsistent free-thinkers, who have erected
irreligion and corruption into a method of government.
Modern society is ailing indeed, more ailing that the most honest
anti-Semite imagines. The error of anti-Semitism lies in its
misapprehension of the origin and the seat of the evil. It sees,
or is willing to see, but one of the symptoms, and it calls this
symptom the cause of the disease. Anti-Semitism is essentially
"simple-minded," in the literal sense of the word. It fails to
grasp the complexity of social phenomena. But this failure, which
should prove its ruin, is largely the cause of its success with the
masses, who in their simplicity are always carried away by that
which they deem simple.
Even if the Jews had all the vices and all the power which the
hatred of their enemies sees fit to ascribe to them, it were none
the less childish to discover in a handful of Semites the source of
the evils that afflict modern society.
It is not true that, in order to restore it to health, we need but
to eliminate the Semite, as the surgeon's knife eradicates a cyst
or a malignant excrescence. The extent and gravity of the evil are
of a different nature. The evil is in ourselves, in our blood, in
the very marrow of our bones. To cure us, it will not be enough to
remove a foreign body from our flesh. Though every Jew be banished
from French soil, though Israel be swept from the face of Europe,
France would be not one whit more healthy, nor Europe in any better
state. The first condition of a cure is a knowledge of the nature
of one's malady. Now, anti-Semitism deceives us; it blinds us to
our condition by trying to make us believe that the cause of the
evil is external, instead of internal. There is no more dangerous
error. We are afflicted with an internal trouble, due to our
constitution and our entire mode of living; and the anti-Semites
insist upon telling us, over and over again, that it is but a
superficial ailment, brought on by chance, and foreign to our race
and blood. Even when they boast of exposing our secret wounds,
they misconstrue their nature; consequently, instead of furnishing
a cure for them, they are in great danger of inflaming them still
more.
Such will be, I doubt not, the feeling of every reader who is
sufficiently thoughtful and independent to base his opinions upon
reflection, and not upon the antipathies of the mob. Anti-Semitism,
even when most justified in its complaints, is mistaken as to
the source of our evils. It would be easy for me to prove this
conclusively, could I, in this volume, have treated of finance,
capital, and the ascendancy of the stock-exchange. Unfortunately,
I have been obliged, for the present, to omit a part of my
subject--that which in these days of subserviency to material
interests so completely engrosses the public mind--the money
question. I had intended at first to devote one or two chapters to
it. But this money-question has assumed so prominent a place in
our democratic society; it so easily takes the lead everywhere, it
is so complex, and so liable to give rise to confusion, that it
seemed to me worthy of separate treatment. Therefore this volume
will be followed by another, in which I shall attempt to define the
role played by money among the nations of to-day. On that occasion
I shall take up again some of the views set forth in my book on
_Papacy, Socialism, and Democracy_. There may, perhaps, seem to be
no connection between these two subjects. That is a mistake, for
anti-Semitism, too, is a social question. And as for myself, in
studying the influence of the Jew and of modern Israel, as well as
in examining the teachings of the Pope on socialism and democracy,
I have always the same object in view: religious liberty and social
peace. _Caritas et Pax_, such is ever my motto; and, if I mistake
not, it is a Christian motto, not unbecoming a Frenchman.
II. PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH VERSION.
Our age will constitute a critical, a supreme epoch in the long
history of Israel. To-day the prophecies of the seers are at last
approaching fulfilment, and Israel is really being scattered to the
ends of the earth. We are witnessing a new _diaspora_, the great
and final dispersal.
The tree of Israel, the ancient vine of Judah, transplanted to
the Sarmatian plains, has again been rudely shaken by the blast
of persecution; its branches have fallen and its seeds have blown
afar, over the hills and across the deserts and oceans.
As in earlier times, the wrath of their persecutors is forcing Jews
and Judaism into countries where the Sabbath-lamp has never yet
been lighted. The spectacle witnessed during the Renaissance and at
the end of the fifteenth century, in consequence of the edicts of
Isabella of Castile--the exodus of a people driven forth, without
means of existence, from the land of its ancestors because it clung
to the faith of its fathers--this spectacle disgraces the closing
years of our nineteenth century, in consequence of the ukases of a
Russian czar.
What will be the verdict of history as to the effects upon Judaism
of the harsh policy of Alexander III? Possibly in years to come,
when the tears of her exiles and their present sufferings shall be
forgotten, the historians of Israel may affirm that the Russian
autocrat contributed, more than any other man, to the expansion and
renovation of Judaism.
The Jews who are driven from Slavic soil by the law or by their own
poverty, are forced to begin a new life under kindlier skies and
in freer lands. They are torn from the old Jewries where, closely
herded together, they had barely air enough to breathe; and this
painful expatriation may well prove of equal benefit to their souls
and their bodies.
The majority of these exiles have gone to America, and especially
to the United States. To their brethren already established between
the Atlantic and the Pacific this sudden influx of a whole people,
in the main poor and ignorant, who demand from them shelter and
support, must indeed prove a very heavy burden. The Jews of the
United States have been confronted here with an enormous task, to
which, however, they have shown themselves equal. Fortunately,
the most trying years seem to be over. The accession of the young
emperor, Nicholas II, to the throne of Russia gives rise to the
hope of some mitigation of those antiquated laws which, under
Alexander III, had furnished official intolerance with the means of
hypocritical persecution. The stream of emigration, whose volume
is already lessening, will probably slacken. It will not wholly
cease, for free America will long continue to attract the victims
of persecution.
I, for one, do not believe that the United States ought to view
this Jewish immigration with any disquietude; I cannot see what
there is to fear from it. Among all the races and nations that have
furnished the United States with colonists and have thus helped
to advance its marvelous growth, I can find none more intelligent
or more industrious; nor can I find any that is more capable of
assimilating American civilization and of introducing into it a
useful competition.
I am told that one of the charges brought against the Jews of
America is that they frequently manifest leanings toward socialism;
or rather toward anarchism. This may be the case with many
Russian and Roumanian Jews--we have some in Paris who show such
tendencies--but the fact is due less to the racial character of the
Jews than to the conditions under which they have long been forced
to live in Europe, and to which they are still subjected in Russia
and Roumania. If Lassalle and Karl Marx were the prophets of German
socialism, one of the causes of their revolt against the old social
order lay in the sort of life which that order imposed upon the
sons of Israel, even in Germany. This is still more evident in the
case of the Jews who have been infected in Russia by the germs of
nihilism and anarchy. The Jew of the old secluded Jewry is--as I
have shown in this book--essentially conservative. If, in the past
twenty or twenty-five years, a certain number of young Jews and
Jewesses have joined the ranks of the nihilists, if some of them
have been concerned in the conspiracies against the person or the
authority of Alexander II and of Alexander III, this is due to the
social conditions imposed on the Jews by the Russian laws. This I
think I have conclusively proved, both in my present volume and in
my larger work: "The Empire of the Tsars."
Only the most systematic vexations and humiliations could have
aroused the children of Abraham to this spirit of revolt, to these
political conspiracies, so opposed to Jewish ideas and traditions.
A further proof of this, which ought to appeal to the most furious
anti-Semites, is that in Russia conspiracy can lead to nothing, as
yet, but transportation or the gallows.
Moreover, I have often noticed that all the Israelites implicated
in political trials were what I call "de-Judaized" Jews--that is to
say, Jews who have renounced the beliefs and practices of Judaism.
It was Christian contagion that gave the Jews their revolutionary
ideas. Some of the Jewish emigrants from Russia and other parts
of Europe have been obviously degraded and corrupted by centuries
of oppression. Many years--perhaps one or two generations--will
be needed to raise their moral plane, to imbue them with a sense
of honor, and dignity. It is a great mistake to believe that this
moral uplifting can be facilitated by detaching them from their
religion. On the contrary, the least praise-worthy Jews that I
have met have generally been "de-Judaized" Jews, those who had
ceased to observe the Mosaic law. The Jew--such, at least, is my
opinion--stands in even greater need of religious support than
the Christian; and, as a rule, he can find that support only in
the faith of his fathers. There are indeed, Israelites who become
converts to Christianity. But, in order to be morally efficacious,
such conversion should be genuine and disinterested. Its object
should be to find favor, not in the eyes of society or of man, but
of God. Now, it is well known that such true conversions are rare,
and this accounts for the fact that the baptized Jews are often the
least commendable.
I must confess that, in many cases, the Christian missionaries
are to blame. They are too often satisfied with purely external,
nominal conversions, and, for the winning of souls, they too often
employ means that are neither holy nor honest. I have been told
that there are missionaries--mainly of the Protestant faith--in
London, New York, and the East, who angle for Jewish souls with
the coarse bait of worldly benefits, taking unfair advantage of
the poverty, abandonment, and loneliness of immigrants driven
out of their country by want or persecution, to lead them to the
Christian font. These conversions by seduction, if I may venture so
to call them, are not a whit less odious than conversions by force.
Such proselytizing is unworthy of the Christian ministry and is a
disgrace to the churches that encourage it. It can result only in
making bad Christians and in educating bad citizens.
I need say little, in addressing my English-speaking readers, of
the fear entertained by some persons, that the Jewish newcomers
are likely to monopolize the national wealth. Although these
apprehensions are quite common among the simple souls of the old
world, I do not imagine that they have crossed the Channel or
the Atlantic. Englishmen and Americans have too much faith in
themselves to share such visionary fears. However great may be the
commercial talents of the Jews, the Anglo-Saxons feel themselves by
no means inferior to them; and when it comes to "making money," the
Yankee does not fear the competition of the Semite.
Nor do I believe that, in extending hospitality to the sons of
Israel, the United States, or Australia, or even old England
herself, has reason to apprehend what German anti-Semites call the
"judaizing" of modern society.
This expression is often used in Europe to indicate the growing
ascendancy of material interests and the encroachment of the
mercantile spirit. I do not think that the Jew can be held
responsible for this tendency, and I shall attempt to show this in
my forthcoming work: "Le Règne de l'Argent." What the anti-Semites
call the "judaizing" of society might, as I have taken the liberty
of asserting, be more correctly called the "Americanizing" of
morals. I trust that this remark will not bring down the resentment
of my American readers. That would be unfair, for I am, in many
respects, a sincere admirer of their great Republic. If I have
ventured to speak of the "Americanizing" of modern society, it is
simply because the typical characteristics of democratic industrial
society were first revealed in the United States, and have there
been developed on a larger scale than in any other country. This
form of social organization, new to history, is gradually becoming
dominant in all parts of the old world, as well as the new. If
it has its advantages, it has also its faults, which we are all
in duty bound to correct. The ascendancy of material interests,
the greed for money, the frantic race for wealth, are the most
deplorable characteristics of our modern industrial and democratic
society. These are not social characteristics; they are peculiar
neither to the Yankee nor to the Jew, although they sometimes seem
to be most pronounced in the Jew and the Yankee. They are the
result of our social conditions, and it is not by proscribing any
particular race or any faith, but only by appealing to moral forces
and by bringing all such forces to their highest development that
our modern democracies can escape from the practical materialism
that threatens to engulf them.
_Paris_, April, 1893.
RUSSIA'S CRIME AGAINST THE JEWS AND CIVILIZATION.
The closing citation in the symposium of general opinion which we
have presented under our preceding rubric, the preface to the English
translation of Leroy Beaulieu's work on "Israel among the Nations," may
serve almost without further comment as an effective introduction to
our present subject. It deals directly with the great wrong committed
by the government of Russia against Israel and Humanity, and it deals
with it from the vantage ground of an impartial authority.
The proscriptive policy adopted by Russia against the Jewish people, a
policy whose animus appears to be a mixture of political and religious
fanaticism, has erected the provinces along the Western frontier of
the Empire, on the German and Austrian borders, into a "Pale of Jewish
Settlement" and thus created a Ghetto-country, into which the Jews of
the interior provinces have been driven, to live as best they may. Even
in these confines they are forbidden to apply themselves to agriculture
and forced into various towns and cities, there to huddle and if need
be to starve.
It has been held that this seemingly inexplicable policy has been
deliberately directed to the end and with the purpose of crowding a
mass of helpless and impoverished population on the Western borders
of the Empire, to be utilized as an abattis against a foreign foe or
as a cushion against foreign invasion, but it seems incredible that
Russian fanaticism, shortsighted and ruthless as it is, should reach
such a degree of turpitude and folly. It would seem, on the contrary,
to be persisted in notwithstanding the manifest political and military
dangers which the unreasonable procedure harbors and which, since its
inception in 1879-80 has not ceased to bring about widespread economic
and social disorganization, not to speak of the political disturbance
of the Empire. The "russification" of the Empire, the retaining of
"Russia for the Russians" (as though the Jews who are conscripted in
disproportionate numbers into the army, who fought valiantly for their
native land in the Crimea and on the Balkans, were not to be regarded
as Russians), is the ostensible purpose of the proscription. With this
purpose the ruling power of Russia continues to drive out its Jewish
subjects; the historic tragedy wrought out by Spanish bigotry and
fatuousness 400 years ago is being re-enacted by Russia at the present
day, and the political and economic lessons taught by that example,
not to mention the admonitions of humanity and the protests of an
outraged civilization remain unheeded. The end of this wicked folly is
apparently still afar, and seems likely to be brought nearer in point
of time only by a political explosion. It were difficult to arrive at a
conclusion as to which prospect is the worst.
The facts concerning the persecution of the Russian Jews have
constantly been belied by the Russian authorities, in conformity
with the historic methods of Russian diplomacy, but have for some
years past been placed beyond question through the efforts of our
own government. In view of the positive contradictions between the
Russian official statements and the constantly reported and seemingly
well-established facts, it was deemed expedient by the administration
of President Harrison, in 1891, to send an official American Commission
to investigate the condition of affairs in Russia, and the report of
this Commission, referred to below by Ambassador White, gave official
confirmation to the previously published details of the relentless
and heartrending cruelties practiced by the Russian officials in
the name of the Czar. Into these details we will not here enter.
The Commissioners' Report has been widely published and has become
historic.[120]
A statement of the general subject has, however, been formulated in
another official report, made subsequently to that noted above, by our
Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Hon. Andrew D. White, in a despatch to
the Secretary of State, the late Walter Q. Gresham. In this document
Mr. White summarizes the conditions relating to the persecution of
the Russian Jews in a manner so concise and lucid, and in a spirit
so entirely dispassionate, that it may properly be cited here as a
statement whose authority is entirely beyond question.[121]
FOOTNOTES:
[120] This Commission was appointed, under direction of the
President, by Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster, by virtue of
authority of the act of Congress (Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill)
of March 3, 1891, and its Report was transmitted by the Secretary to
Congress, February 25, 1892. The Commission consisted of Hon. John B.
Weber, Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York, Chairman,
and the following named special immigrant inspectors: Judson N. Cross,
of Minnesota; Walter Kempster, M. D., of Wisconsin; Joseph Powderly,
of Pennsylvania, and Herman J. Schultheis, of Washington, D. C. The
investigations with which the Commission was charged were made in the
various countries of Europe by the Commissioners in severalty, those
relating to Russia and the persecution of its Jewish subjects being
made by the Chairman, Col. Weber, with the assistance of Dr. Kempster.
Col. Weber's report on the condition of affairs in Russia affords the most
detailed and exhaustive statement of the subject that has been given
to the world. It followed closely upon the publication in the New York
_Times_, (Sept.-Dec., 1891,) of the masterly review of Russian affairs
generally, by Harold Frederic, in a series of articles entitled "An
Indictment of Russia," and these two publications finally disposed of
the glossing with which Russian diplomacy had attempted to hide the
facts.
[121] This subject had on frequent occasions previously
received the attention of our State Department. In a despatch under
date of July 29, 1881, Secretary of State Jas. G. Blaine directs
our minister at St. Petersburg, Mr. John W. Foster, to demand of
the Russian Government the due rights of American Jewish citizens
travelling or temporarily sojourning in Russia, in compliance with
treaty obligations. From this document we quote the following salient
paragraphs:
"From a careful examination of the causes of grievances heretofore
reported by your legation, it appears that the action of the
Russian authorities toward American citizens, alleged to be
Israelites, and visiting Russia, has been of two kinds:
"First. Absolute prohibition of residence in St. Petersburg and
in other cities of the Empire, on the ground that the Russian law
permits no native Jews to reside there, and that the treaty between
Russia and the United States gives to our citizens in Russian
jurisdiction no other rights or privileges than those accorded to
native Russians. The case of Henry Pinkos may be taken as a type of
this class.
"Second. Permission of residence and commerce, conditionally on
belonging to the first guild of Russian merchants and taking out a
license. The case of Rosenstrauss is in point.
"The apparent contradiction between these two classes of actions
becomes more and more evident as the question is traced backward.
The Department has rarely had presented to it any subject of
inquiry in which a connected understanding of the facts has proved
more difficult. For every allegation, on the one hand, that
native laws, in force at the time the treaty of 1832 was signed,
prohibited or limited the sojourn of foreign Jews in the cities of
Russia, I find, on the other hand, specific invitation to alien
Hebrews of good repute to domicile themselves in Russia, to pursue
their business calling under appropriate license, to establish
factories there, and to purchase or lease real estate. Moreover,
going back beyond 1832, the date of our treaty, I observe that the
imperial ukases concerning the admission of foreigners into Russia
are silent on all questions of faith; proper passports, duly viséd
being the essential requisite. And, further back still, in the time
of Empress Catharine, I discover explicit tolerance of all foreign
religions laid down as a fundamental policy of the empire.
"It would be, in the judgment of this government, absolutely
inadmissible that a domestic law restraining native Hebrews from
residence in certain parts of the empire might operate to hinder an
American citizen, whether alleged or known to profess the Hebrew
faith, from disposing of his property or taking possession thereof
for himself (subject only to the laws of alien inheritance) or
being heard in person by the courts which, under Russian law, may
be called upon to decide matters to which he is necessarily a
party. The case would clearly be one in which the obligation of
a treaty is supreme, and where the local law must yield. These
questions of the conflict of local law and international treaty
stipulations are among the most common which have engaged the
attention of publicists, and it is their concurrent judgment that
where a treaty creates a privilege for aliens in express terms,
it cannot be limited by the operation of domestic law without a
serious breach of the good faith which governs the intercourse of
nations. So long as such a conventional engagement in favor of the
citizens of another state exists, the law governing natives in like
cases is manifestly inapplicable.
"I need hardly enlarge upon the point that the Government of the
United States concludes its treaties with foreign states for the
equal protection of all classes of American citizens. It can make
absolutely no discrimination between them, whatever be their origin
or creed. So that they abide by the laws, at home or abroad, it
must give them due protection and expect like protection for them.
Any unfriendly or discriminatory act against them on the part of a
foreign power with which we are at peace would call for our earnest
remonstrance whether a treaty existed or not. The friendliness of
our relations with foreign nations is emphasized by the treaties
we have concluded with them. We have been moved to enter into
such international compacts by considerations of mutual benefit
and reciprocity, by the same considerations, in short, which have
animated the Russian Government from the time of the noble and
tolerant declarations of the Empress Catharine in 1784 to those
of the ukase of 1860. We have looked to the spirit rather than to
the letter of these engagements, and believed that they should be
interpreted in the broadest way; it is, therefore, a source of
unfeigned regret to us when a government, to which we are allied by
so many historical ties as to that of Russia, shows a disposition
in its dealing with us to take advantage of technicalities, to
appeal to the rigid letter and not the reciprocal motive of its
international engagements, in justification of the expulsion from
its territories of peaceable American citizens resorting thither
under the good faith of treaties and accused of no wrong-doing or
of no violation of the commercial code of the land, but of simple
adherence to the faith of their fathers."
OFFICIAL DISPATCH OF AMBASSADOR WHITE TO SECRETARY OF STATE GRESHAM.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 6, 1893.
(Received July 27.)
SIR:--Your telegram, presumably of May 17, was received on the morning
of May 18, and answered at once.
Since telegraphing you I have made additional inquiries with reference
to your question, and am persuaded that there has been no new edict
banishing Israelites from Poland, as was stated in some of the
papers of Western Europe; but for some time past the old edicts and
regulations against them have been enforced in various parts of the
Empire with more and more severity.
Soon after my arrival at this post it was rumored that there was to
be some mitigation in the treatment of them, but the hopes based on
this rumor have grown less and less, and it is now clear that the
tendency is all in the direction not only of excluding Israelites more
rigorously than ever from parts of the Empire where they were formerly
allowed on sufferance, but to make life more and more difficult for
them in those parts of the Empire where they have been allowed to live
for many generations.
As you are doubtless aware, there are about 5,000,000 Israelites in
Russia, forming, it is claimed, more than half of the entire Jewish
race, and these are packed together in the cities and villages of what
was formerly Poland and adjacent governments, in a belt extending
along the western borders from northwest to southeast, but which for
some years past has been drawn back from the frontier about forty
miles, under the necessity, as it is claimed, imposed by the tendency
of the Israelites in that region to conduct smuggling operations. In
other parts of the Empire they have only been allowed to reside as a
matter of exceptional favor. This alleged favor, under the more kindly
reign of Alexander II, was largely developed and matured into a sort
of _quasi_ right in the case of certain classes, such as Israelites
who have been admitted to the learned professions, or have taken a
university degree, or have received the rights of merchants of the
first or second guild, paying the heavy fees required in such cases.
Certain skilled artisans have also been allowed to reside in certain
towns outside the Jewish pale, but their privileges are very uncertain,
liable to revocation at any time, and have in recent years been greatly
diminished. Besides this, certain Israelites are allowed by special
permits to reside as clerks in sundry establishments, but under the
most uncertain tenure. This tenure can be understood by a case which
occurred here about a month since.
At that time died an eminent Israelite of St. Petersburg, a Mr. ----
----, who had distinguished himself by rescuing certain great companies
from ruin by his integrity and skill in various large operations, and
by the fact that, while he made large and constant gains for those
interested in these companies and operations, he laid up for himself
only a moderate competence. He had in his employ a large number of
Jewish clerks, and it is now regarded here as a matter of fact that at
the expiration of their passes, say in a few months, all of them must
leave St. Petersburg.
The treatment of the Israelites, whether good or evil is not based
entirely upon any one ukase or statute; there are said to be in
the vast jungle of the laws of this Empire more than one thousand
decrees and statutes relating to them, beside innumerable circulars,
open or secret, regulations, restrictions, extensions, and temporary
arrangements, general, special, and local, forming such a tangled
growth that probably no human being can say what the law as a whole
is--least of all can a Jew in any province have any certain knowledge
of his rights.
From time to time, and especially during the reign of Alexander II,
who showed himself more kind to them than any other sovereign had ever
been, many of them were allowed to leave this overcrowded territory,
and, at least, were not hindered from coming into territory and towns
which, strictly speaking, they were not considered as entitled to
enter; but for some time past this residence on sufferance has been
rendered more and more difficult. Details of the treatment to which
they have been subjected may be found in the report made by Mr. J.
B. Weber and his associate commissioners entitled, "Report of the
Commissioners of Immigration upon the Causes which incite Immigration
to the United States," Government Printing Office. I must confess that
when I first read this report its statements seemed to me exaggerated,
or at least, over-colored, but it is with very great regret that I say
that this is no longer my opinion. Not only is great severity exercised
as regards the main body of Israelites here, but it is from time to
time brought to bear with especial force on those returning to Russia
from abroad. The case was recently brought to my notice of a Jewish
woman who, having gone abroad, was stopped on her return at a frontier
station, and, at last accounts, had been there three days, hoping that
some members of her family in Russia might be able to do something to
enable her to rejoin them.
Israelites of the humbler classes find it more and more difficult to
re-enter Russia, and this fact will explain the case of Mrs. Minnie
Levin, referred to in Mr. Wharton's dispatch No: 60 as being refused
a visa at the Russian Consulate-General in New York, and it will also
throw light on various cases we have had in which the legation has been
able to secure mitigation of the application of the rules.
On this latter point we have been successful in obtaining such
mitigation in cases of many Israelites who have been subjected to
annoyance by over-zealous local authorities.
It may appear strange that any nation should wish to expel a people
who, in other parts of the world, have amassed so much wealth. The fact
is that but a very small fraction of them in Russia are wealthy; but
few even in comfortable circumstances. The vast majority of them are in
poverty, and a very considerable part in misery--just on the border of
starvation.
Nearly forty years ago, when, as an attaché of this legation, I was
for seven days and nights on the outside of a post coach between St.
Petersburgh and Warsaw--there being then no railway to the frontier--I
had an ample opportunity to see something of these Israelites and
of the region in which they live. They exist for the most part in
squalor, obliged to resort to almost anything that offers, in order to
keep body and soul together. Even the best of them were then treated
with contempt by the lowest of the pure Russians. I myself saw two
Israelites, evidently of the wealthier class and richly clad, who had
ventured into the enclosure in front of the posthouse to look at the
coach in which I was, lashed with a coach whip and driven out of the
enclosure with blows by one of the postilions--evidently a serf.
A very few millionaire Israelites are to be found among the merchants
of the first guild in some of the larger cities, but there is no such
proportion of wealthy men among them as in the United States, Great
Britain, France, and Germany. In the smaller towns, in some of which
they form the majority of the residents, their poverty is so abject
that they drag each other down, making frequently a ruinous competition
with each other in such branches of business as they are allowed to
pursue. This is now even more the case than ever before, since recent
regulations have swept the Israelites living in many rural districts
into the towns.
A case was a few days since mentioned to me in which a small town of
8000 or 10,000 inhabitants had recently received into its population
nearly 6000 Israelites from the surrounding country.
The restrictions are by no means confined to residence; they extend
into every field of activity. Even in the parts of the Empire where the
Israelites are most free they are not allowed to hold property in land,
or to take a mortgage on land, or to farm land, and of late they have
even been, to a large extent, prevented from living on farms, and have
been thrown back into the cities and villages.
As to other occupations, Jewish manufacturers have at times, even under
the present reign, been crippled by laws or regulations forbidding them
to employ Christian workmen, but these are understood to be not now in
force. They are relics of the old legislation which, in the interest of
the servant's soul, forbade a Jew to employ a Christian servant under
pain of death, and which, in a mitigated form, remained on the statute
book until 1865, when it was abolished by Alexander II.
There are also many restrictions upon the professions considered more
honorable. A few Israelites are allowed to become engineers, and they
are allowed to hold 5 per cent of the positions of army surgeons,
but no more; and this in spite of the fact that from the Middle Ages
until how their race has been recognized as having a peculiar aptitude
for medicine and surgery. As a rule, also, they are debarred from
discharging any public functions of importance, and even as to lesser
functions, a Jew can not be elected mayor of a village or even member
of its council.
Not more than one man in ten of those summoned to do jury duty can be
a Jew, and even in the cities within the pale, where the Jews form the
great majority of the population, they can not hold more than one-third
of the places on a municipal council.
Perhaps the most painful of the restrictions upon them is in regard
to the education of their children. The world over, as is well known,
Israelites will make sacrifices to educate their sons and daughters,
such as are not made, save in exceptional cases, by any other people.
They are, as is universally recognized, a very gifted race, but no
matter how gifted a young Israelite may be, his chances of receiving an
education are small.
In regions where they are most numerous, only 10 per cent of the
scholars in high schools and universities are allowed to be Jews, but
in many cases the number allowed them is but 5 per cent, and in St.
Petersburgh and Moscow only 3 per cent. Out of the seventy-five young
Israelites who applied for admission to the University of Dorpat in
1887 only seven were allowed to enter. A few days since the case was
brought to my notice of a well-to-do Israelite who wished to educate
his son, whom he considered especially gifted, but who could not
obtain permission to educate him in St. Petersburg, and was obliged
to be satisfied with the permission to enter him at one of the small
provincial universities remote from the capital.
To account for this particular restriction it is urged that if freely
allowed to receive an advanced education they would swarm in the high
schools, universities, and learned professions; and, as a proof of
this, the fact is mentioned that some time since, in the absence of
restrictions, at Odessa from 50 to 70 per cent of the scholars in
sundry Russian colleges were Jews.
As to religious restrictions, the general policy pursued seems to an
unprejudiced observer from any other country so illogical as to be
incomprehensible. On the one hand great powers are given to the Jewish
rabbis and religious authorities. They are allowed in the districts
where the Israelites mainly live to form a sort of state within the
state, with power to impose taxes upon their co-religionists and
to give their regulations virtually the force of law. On the other
hand, efforts of zealous orthodox Christians to proselyte Israelites,
which must provoke much bitterness, are allowed and even favored. The
proselytes, once brought within the orthodox Russian fold, no matter by
what means, any resumption of the old religion by them is treated as a
crime.
Recent cases have occurred where Jews who have been thus converted and
who have afterwards attended the synagogue have been brought before the
courts.
So, too, in regard to religious instruction it would seem to an
unprejudiced observer, wishing well both to Russia and to the
Israelites, that the first thing to do would be to substitute
instruction in science, general literature, and in technical branches
for that which is so strongly complained of by Russians generally--the
instruction in the Talmud and Jewish theology. But this is just what is
not done, and indeed, as above stated not allowed.
The whole system at present in vogue is calculated to make Talmudic
and theological schools--which are so constantly complained of
as the nurseries and hotbeds of anti-Russian and anti-Christian
fanaticism--the only schools accessible to the great majority of gifted
young Israelites.
As to the recent interferences of which accounts have been published
in the English newspapers and especially as to a statement that a
very large number of Jewish children were, early during the present
year, taken from their parents in one of the southern governments of
Russia and put into monastic schools under the charge of orthodox
priests, this statement having been brought to my notice especially
by letters addressed to me as the representative of the United
States, I communicated with our consuls in the regions referred to
and also obtained information from other trustworthy sources, and the
conclusion at which I arrived was that the statement was untrue; it
probably had its origin in the fact that much anxiety has recently
been shown by certain high officials, and especially ecclesiastics, to
promote education in which orthodox religious instruction holds a very
important part.
In justification of all these restrictions various claims are made.
First of all it is claimed that the Jews lend money to peasants and
others at enormous rates of interest. But it is pointed out, in answer
to this, that sundry bankers and individuals in parts of Russia where
no Jews are permitted have made loans at a much higher rate than Jews
have ever ventured to do; while it is allowed that 100 per cent a year
has not unfrequently been taken by the Israelites, there seems to be
no doubt of the fact that from 300 to 800 per cent, and even more
sometimes, has been taken by Christians.
This statement seems incredible, but it is unimpeachable. In a general
way it is supported by the recent report of a Russian official to Mr.
Sagonof; and a leading journal of St. Petersburg, published under
strict censorship, has recently given cases with names and dates where
a rate higher than the highest above named was paid by Russian peasants
to Christian money lenders.
Those inclined to lenity towards the Jews point to the fact that none
of them would dare take any such rates of interest as Christians
may freely demand; that to do so would raise against the Israelites
in their neighborhood storms which they could not resist, and it is
argued that, as their desire for gain is restricted in this way, their
presence in any part of Russia tends to diminish the rate of interest
rather than to increase it. On the other hand it is claimed that they
will not work at agriculture and, indeed, that they will do no sort of
manual labor which they can avoid.
As to the first of these charges, the fact is dwelt upon, which has so
impressed Mr. Mackenzie Wallace and other travelers, that the Jewish
agricultural colonies founded by Alexander I, in 1810, and by Nicholas
I, in 1840, have not done well.
But in answer it may be stated as a simple matter of history that,
having been originally an agricultural people they have been made
what they are by ages of persecutions which have driven them into the
occupations to which they are now so generally devoted; that in Russia
they have for generations been incapacitated for agricultural work by
such restrictions as those above referred to; that even if they are
allowed here and there to till the land, they are not allowed, in the
part of the Empire which they most inhabit, to buy it or even to farm
it, and that thus the greatest incentive to labor is taken away.
As to other branches of manual labor, simply as a matter of fact, there
are very large bodies of Jewish artisans in Poland, numbering in the
aggregate about one-half the entire adult male Israelite population.
Almost every branch of manual labor is represented among them, and well
represented. As stone masons they have an especially high reputation,
and it is generally conceded that in sobriety, capacity, and attention
to work they fully equal their Christian rivals.
Complaint is also made that they, as far as possible, avoid military
service. This is doubtless true, but the reasons for it are evident.
For the Jewish soldier there is no chance of promotion, and when
he retires after service, he is, as a rule, subject to the same
restrictions as others of his race. In spite of this fact the number of
them in the conscription of 1886 was over 40,000.
I find everywhere in discussing this subject, a complaint that the
Israelites, wherever they are allowed to exist, get the better of the
Russian peasant. The difficulty is that the life of the Israelite is
marked by sobriety, self-denial and foresight; and, whatever may be the
kindly qualities ascribed to the Russian peasant, these qualities are
rarely, if ever, mentioned among them.
It is also urged against the Israelites in Russia that they are not
patriotic, but in view of the policy pursued regarding them the wonder
is that any human being should expect them to be patriotic.
There is also frequent complaint against Jewish fanaticism, and
recently collections of extracts from the Talmud have been published
here as in western Europe, and even in the United States, to show
that Israelites are educated in bitter and undying hate of Christians,
and taught not only to despise but to despoil them; and it is insisted
that the vast majority of the Israelites in Russia have, by ages of
this kind of instruction and by the simple laws of heredity, been made
beasts of prey with claws and teeth especially sharp, and that the
peasant must be protected from them.
Lately this charge has been strongly reiterated, a book having appeared
here in which the original Hebrew of the worst Talmudic passages, with
translations of them, are placed in parallel columns. It seems to be
forgotten that the Israelites would be more than human if such passages
did not occur in their sacred writings. While some of these passages
antedate the establishment of Christianity, most of them have been the
result of fervor under oppression and of the appeal to the vengeance
of Jehovah in times of persecution; and it would be but just to set
against them the more kindly passages, especially the broadly and
beautifully humane teachings which are so frequent in the same writings.
An eminently practical course would be to consider the development of
Judaism in the United States, Great Britain, and other countries where
undeniably those darker features of of the Talmud have been more and
more blotted out from Jewish teaching, and the unfortunate side of
Talmudic influence more and more weakened.
But this charge of Talmudic fanaticism is constantly made, and
Russians, to show that there is no hatred of Israelites, as such, point
to the fact that the Karaites, who are non-Talmudic, have always been
treated with especial kindness.
To this the answer would seem to be that the Karaites are free from
fanaticism because they have been so long kindly treated, and that
this same freedom and kindness which has made them unobjectionable to
Russian patriotism would, in time, probably render the great mass of
Israelites equally so.
There is no need of argument, either in the light of history or of
common sense, to prove that these millions of Israelites in Russia are
not to be rendered less fanatical by the treatment to which they are
subjected.
To prove that the more bitter utterances in the Talmud complained of do
not necessarily lead Israelites to hate Christians, and indeed to show
that the teachings which the Israelites receive in countries where they
have more freedom lead to a broad philanthropy of the highest type,
I have been accustomed, in discussing the subject with Russians, to
point to such examples of the truest love for human kind as those shown
by Judah Touro in the United States, Sir Moses Montefiore in England,
Nathan de Rothschild in Austria, James de Rothschild and Baron Hirsch
in France, and multitudes of other cases, citing especially the fact of
the extensive charities carried on by Israelites in all countries, and
the significant circumstance that the first considerable contribution
from the United States to the Russian famine fund came from a Jewish
synagogue in California, with the request that in the use of it no
discrimination should be made between Jews and Christians. Cases like
these would seem to do away effectually with the idea, that Jewish
teachings necessarily inculcate hostility to people of other religious
beliefs.
There is also a charge closely connected wtth the foregoing which
undoubtedly has much to do with the present severe reaction. It is
constantly repeated that, in spite of the fact that the late Emperor
Alexander II had shown himself more kindly toward the Israelites than
had any of his predecessors--relaxing the old rules as to residence,
occupation, education, and the like, and was sure, had he lived, to go
much farther in the same direction, probably as far as breaking down
a mass of the existing barriers, and throwing open vast regions never
before accessible to them--the proportion of Israelites implicated
in the various movements against him, especially in the Nihilistic
movement, and in the final plot which led to his assassination, was far
beyond the numerical proportion of their race in Russia to the entire
population. This feeling was certainly at the bottom of the cruel
persecutions of the Israelites by the peasants just after the death
of the late Emperor, and has no less certainly much to do with the
prejudices of various personages of high influence as well as of the
vast mass of the people which still exist.
The remarkable reaction now dominant in Russia is undoubtedly in great
measure, if not entirely, the result of the assassination of Alexander
II; it is a mere truism to say that this event was the most unfortunate
in its effects on well-ordered progress that has occurred in this
Empire; but, so far as the Israelites are concerned, the facts at
the bottom of this charge against them can be accounted for, without
imputing anything to the race at large, by the mass of bitterness
stored up during ages of oppression, not only in Russia, but elsewhere.
The matter complained of must certainly be considered as exceptional,
for it cannot hide the greater fact that the Jews have always shown
themselves especially grateful to such rulers as have mitigated their
condition or even shown a kindly regard for them.
I was myself, as minister at Berlin, cognizant of innumerable
evidences of gratitude and love shown by the entire Jewish population
toward the Crown Prince, afterwards the Emperor Frederick III, who,
when Jew-baiting was in fashion, and patronized by many persons in
high positions, set himself quietly but firmly against it. And this
reminiscence leads me to another in regard to the oft-repeated charge
that the Israelite is incapable of patriotism, is a mere beast of prey,
and makes common cause with those of his race engaged in sucking out
the substance of the nation where he happens to be. It was my good
fortune to know personally several Israelites at Berlin, who as members
of the Imperial Parliament showed their patriotism by casting away all
hopes of political advancement and resisting certain financial claims
in which some of their co-religionists, as well as some leading and
very influential Christians, were deeply engaged. There is nothing
nobler in recent parliamentary history than the career of such
Israelites as Lasker and Bamberger during that period, and at this
moment no sane man in Germany hesitates to ascribe to the Israelite
Simson all the higher qualities required in his great office, that of
chief justice in the highest court of the German Empire.
The same broad and humane characteristics have been shown among the
vast majority of Israelites eminent in science, philosophy, literature
and the arts. Long before the Israelite Spinoza wrought his own ideal
life into the history of philosophy, this was noted, and it has
continued to be noted in Russia. During my former residence here there
were two eminent representatives of the proscribed race in the highest
scientific circles, and they were especially patriotic and broad
in their sympathies; and to-day the greatest of Russian sculptors,
Antokolski, an Israelite, has thrown into his work not only more
genius, but also more of profound patriotic Russian feeling, than has
any other sculptor of this period. He has revived more evidently than
has any other sculptor the devotion of Russians to their greatest men
in times past, and whenever the project of erecting at St. Petersburg
a worthy monument to the late Emperor shall be carried out, there is
no competent judge who will not acknowledge that he is the man in all
Russia to embody in marble or bronze the gratitude of the nation. This
is no mere personal opinion of my own, for when recently a critic based
an article against Antokolski's works, evidently upon grounds of race
antipathy, a brilliant young author, of one of the oldest and most
thoroughly Russian families in the Empire, Prince Sergius Wolkonsky,
wrote a most cogent refutation of the attack. It is also charged that
in Russia, and, indeed, throughout Europe, an undue proportion of Jews
have been prominent in movements generally known as "socialistic," and
such men as Ferdinand Lasalle and Karl Marx are referred to.
When this statement has been made in my hearing I have met it by the
counter statement of a fact that seems to me to result from the freedom
allowed in the United States, namely, the fact that at a meeting of the
American Social Science Association in 1891, in which a discussion took
place involving the very basis of the existing social system, and in
which the leading representatives of both sides in the United States
were most fully represented, the argument which was generally agreed to
be the most effective against the revolutionary and anti-social forces
was made by a young Israelite, Prof. Seligman, of Columbia University,
in the city of New York. Here, again, results are mistaken for causes;
the attitude complained of in the Israelites is clearly the result of
the oppression of their race.
But there is one charge which it is perhaps my duty to say that
I have never heard made against Israelites even by Russians most
opposed to them--the charge that they are to be found in undue or
even in any considerable proportion among inebriates or criminals.
The simplest reason for this exception in their favor is found in the
official statistics which show that in the Governments where they
are most numerous diseases and crimes resulting from the consumption
of alcoholic drinks are least numerous, and that where the number of
Israelites is greatest the consumption of spirits is least. It is
also well known, as a matter of general observation, that the Russian
Israelites are, as a rule, sober, and that crimes among them are
comparatively infrequent.
Yet, if in any country we might expect alcoholism to be greatly
developed among them it would be in this Empire, where their misery is
so great and the temptation to drown it in intoxicating beverages so
constant; and if we might expect crime to be developed largely among
them it would be in this Empire, where, crowded together as they are,
the struggle for existence is so bitter. Their survival under it can
only be accounted for by their superior thrift and sobriety.
It would be a mistake to suppose that religious hatred or even deeply
religious feeling is a main factor in this question. The average
Russian believes that all outside the orthodox Greek Church are lost;
but he does not hate them on that account, and though there has been
of late years, during the present reaction, an increase of pressure
upon various Christian organizations outside the established church,
this has been undeniably from political rather than religious reasons;
it has been part of the "Russifying process," which is at present the
temporary fashion. The rule in Russia has always been toleration,
though limited by an arrangement which seems to a stranger very
peculiar. In St. Petersburg, for example, there are churches for nearly
all the recognized forms of Christian belief, as well as synagogues for
Hebrews, and at least one Mohammedan mosque; but the only proselytism
allowed is that between themselves and from them to the established
church; in other words, the Greek church may proselyte from any of
them, and, within certain limits, each one may proselyte from its
orthodox neighbors, but none of them can make converts from the Greek
Church.
This regulation seems rather, the result, on the whole, of organized
indifference than of zeal, its main purpose being undoubtedly to keep
down any troublesome religious fervor. The great body of the Russian
peasantry, when left to themselves, seem to be remarkably free from
any spirit of fanatical hostility toward religious systems differing
from their own, and even from the desire to make proselytes. Mr.
Mackenzie Wallace, in his admirable book, after showing that the
orthodox Russian and the Mahommedan Tartar live in various communities
in perfect peace with each other, details a conversation with a Russian
peasant, in which the latter told him that just as God gave the Tartar
a darker skin, so he gave him a different religion; and this feeling of
indifference, when the peasants are not excited by zealots on one side
or the other, seems to prevail toward the Roman Catholics in Poland
and the Protestants in the Baltic provinces and Finland. While some
priests have undoubtedly done much to create a more zealous feeling,
it was especially noted during the fierce persecution of the Jews
early in the present reign that in several cases the orthodox village
priests not only gave shelter to Israelites seeking to escape harm, but
exerted themselves to put an end to the persecutions. So, too, during
the past few days the papers have contained a statement that a priest
very widely known and highly esteemed, to whom miraculous powers are
quite generally attributed, Father John, of Cronstadt, has sent some of
the charity money, of which he is almoner, to certain Jewish orphanages
under the control of Israelites.
The whole present condition of things is rather the outcome of a great
complicated mass of causes, involving racial antipathies, remembrances
of financial servitude, vague inherited prejudices, with myths and
legends like those of the Middle Ages.
But, whatever may be the origin of the feeling toward the Israelites
the practical fact remains that the present policy regarding them is
driving them out of the country in great masses. The German papers
speak of large numbers as seeking the United States and the Argentine
Republic--but especially the former--through the northern ports of that
Empire, and, as I write, the Russian papers state that eight steamers
loaded with them are just about leaving Libau for America.
It is, of course, said in regard to these emigrants that they have not
been ordered out of the country, that they can stay in Russia if they
like, and that Russia has simply exercised her right to manage her own
internal affairs in her own way; but it is none the less true that the
increasing severity in the enforcement of the regulations regarding the
Israelites is the main, if not the only, cause of this exodus. In order
that this question may be understood in its relations to the present
condition of political opinion in the Empire, there is need to make
some additional statement.
There has never been a time, probably, when such a feeling of isolation
from the rest of the world, and aversion to foreign influence of
every sort, have prevailed in Russia as at present; it is shared by
the great majority from the highest to the lowest, and it is echoed
in the press. Russia has been, during the last ten years, in a great
reactionary period, which now seems to be culminating in the attempted
"Russification" of the Empire, involving such measures as increasing
pressure upon Poland, increasing interference with the Baltic provinces
and the German colonies, in the talk of constitutional changes in
Finland, in the substitution of Russian for German names of various
western towns, in the steadily increasing provisions for strengthening
the orthodox Russian Church against all other religious organizations,
in the outcry made by various papers in favor of such proposals as that
for transferring the university at Dorpat into the Muscovite regions of
the interior, for changing the name of St. Petersburg, and for every
sort of Russifying process which the most imaginative can devise.
In this present reaction, connected as it is with bitter disappointment
over the defeat of Russian aspirations in the Berlin treaty and since,
reforms which were formerly universally considered honorable and
desirable for Russia are now regarded with aversion; the controlling
feeling is for "Russification."
Peter the Great is now very largely regarded by Russians as having
taken a wrong road, and, while monuments are erected to Alexander
II, his services as emancipator of the serfs are rarely alluded to,
and the day formerly observed in remembrance of the emancipation has
ceased to be publicly noticed. This reaction shows itself in general
literature, in paintings, in sculpture, in architecture, in everything.
Any discussion regarding a change in the present condition of things is
met by the reply that strangers do not understand Russian questions,
and that these questions are complicated historically, politically,
economically and socially to such a degree that none but those having
personal experience can understand them. If the matter is still further
pressed and the good effects of a different policy in the United
States, Great Britain, and elsewhere are referred to, it is answered
that in those countries a totally different state of things exists, and
that no arguments can be made from them to Russia. Any continuance of
the discussion is generally met by the statement that Russian questions
are largely misrepresented by the press of western Europe; that there
is a systematic propaganda against Russia in England, Germany, Austria,
and Italy; that England does or allows worse things in her Irish
evictions and in her opium traffic, and the United States in lynch law
proceedings and treatment of the Chinese, than any done or allowed
in Russia; that, in short, Russia is competent to take charge of her
own internal policy, and that other powers will do well to mind their
own business. This feeling is closely akin to that which was shown
sometimes in the United States before the civil war toward foreign
comments upon our own "peculiar institution," when representations by
such philanthropists as the Duchess of Sutherland, George Thompson, M.
P., and others were indignantly repelled.
This condition of opinion and the actions resulting from it are so
extreme that it naturally occurs to one who has observed Russian
history that a reaction cannot be long deferred.
The progress of Russia thus far has been mainly by a series of
reactions. These have sometimes come with surprising suddenness. In
view of that which took place when the transition was made from the
policy of restriction followed by the Emperor Nicholas to the broadly
liberal policy adopted by Alexander II, of which, being connected with
this legation at that time, I was a witness, a reaction at present
seems by no means impossible or even improbable. It is by no means
necessary that a change of reign should take place. A transition
might be occasioned as others have been, by the rise of some strong
personality bringing to bear upon the dominant opinion the undoubted
fact that the present system of repression toward the Israelite is from
every point of view a failure, and that it is doing incalculable harm
to Russia.
This dispatch ought not, perhaps, to close without an apology for its
length; the subject is one of great importance, and it has seemed to
me a duty to furnish the Department, in answer to the Secretary's
question, with a full report regarding the present stage in the
evolution of the matter concerned as my opportunities have enabled me
to make.
I am, etc., ANDREW D. WHITE.
* * * * *
NOTE:--The attitude of our Government with regard to the general
question here involved has repeatedly been manifested through our State
Department. On the occasion of the Mohammedan outrages against the
Jews in 1840, and under date of August 19th of that year, Secretary of
State John Forsyth addressed to our Minister to Turkey, David Porter, a
dispatch as follows:
Sir: In common with the people of the United States, the President
has learned with profound feelings of surprise and pain, the
atrocious cruelties which have been practised upon the Jews of
Damascus and Rhodes in consequence of charges, extravagant and
strikingly similar to those, which in less enlightened ages,
were made pretexts for the persecution and spoliation of these
unfortunate people. As the scenes of these barbarities are in the
Mohammedan dominions, and as such inhuman practises are not of
infrequent occurrence in the East, the President has directed me
to instruct you to do everything in your power with the Government
of his Imperial Highness, the Sultan, to whom you are accredited,
consistent with discretion and your diplomatic character, to
prevent or mitigate these horrors, the bare recital of which has
caused a shudder throughout the civilized world, and in an especial
manner to direct your philanthropic efforts against the employment
of torture in order to compel the confession of imputed guilt.
The President is of opinion that from no one can such generous
endeavors proceed with so much propriety and effect as from the
Representative of a friendly power whose institutions, political
and civil, place upon the same footing the worshipers of God, of
every faith and form, acknowledging no distinction between the
Mohammedan, the Jew and the Christian. Should you in carrying
out these instructions find it necessary or proper to address
yourself to any of the Turkish authorities, you will refer to this
distinctive characteristic of our government, as investing with a
peculiar propriety and right the interposition of your good offices
in behalf of an oppressed and persecuted race among whose kindred
are found some of the most worthy and patriotic of our citizens.
In communicating to you the wishes of the President I do not think
it advisable to give you more explicit and minute instructions,
but earnestly commend to your zeal and discretion a subject which
appeals so strongly to the universal sentiments of justice and
humanity.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. FORSYTH.
* * * * *
In 1870, when the persecution of the Roumanian Jews, which had been
started in 1868, was growing from bad to worse, our government, at
the instance of the Order of B'nai B'rith, (as noted on page 428),
established a diplomatic agency at Bucharest. On this occasion
President Grant furnished Consul-General Peixotto with a special
authorization, as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., December 8th, 1870.
The bearer of this letter, Mr. Benjamin F. Peixotto, who has
accepted the important, though unremunerative, position of United
States Consul to Roumania, is commended to the good offices of all
representatives of this Government abroad.
Mr. Peixotto has undertaken the duties of his present office more
as a missionary work for the benefit of the people he represents
than for any benefit to accrue to himself--a work in which all
citizens will wish him the greatest success. The United States,
knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion
or nativity, naturally believes in a civilization, the world over,
which will secure the same universal views.
U. S. GRANT.
* * * * *
President Grant's interest in the subject was furthermore evinced
when, in 1871, at the earnest request of Hon. Simon Wolf, he called a
special Cabinet meeting to consider the reported expulsion of the Jews
of Russian Bessarabia. This meeting resulted in the sending of a cable
dispatch to Minister Andrew G. Curtin at St. Petersburg, protesting
against the ukase of banishment. The protest was heeded by the Czar and
the ukase was rescinded.
As a further indication of the position taken by our Government in
regard to the matter, we quote the following dispatch from Secretary of
State Hamilton Fish to Consul General Peixotto:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10, 1872.
SIR:--Among the large number of Israelites in this country there
are probably few whose sympathies have not been intensely excited
by the recent intelligence of the grievous persecutions of their
co-religionists in Roumania. This feeling has naturally been
augmented by the contrast presented by the position of members of
that persuasion here, who are equals with all others before the
law, which sternly forbids any oppression on account of religion.
Indeed, it may be said that the people of this country universally
abhor persecution anywhere for that cause, and deprecate the trials
of which, according to your dispatches, the Israelites of Roumania
have been victims.
This Government heartily sympathizes with the popular instinct upon
the subject, and while it has no disposition or intention to give
offence by interfering in the internal affairs of Roumania, it is
deemed to be due to humanity to remonstrate against any license or
impunity which may have attended the outrages in that country.
You are consequently authorized to address a note to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the Principality in which you will embody the
views herein expressed, and you will also do anything which you
can do discreetly, with a reasonable prospect of success, toward
preventing a recurrence or continuance of the persecutions adverted
to.
I am, Sir, etc., etc.,
HAMILTON FISH.
* * * * *
As a plain and unmistakable summary of the attitude of the American
people with regard to the brutalities deliberately perpetrated by
Russia, we close these citations with that of the Resolution of
Congress, introduced by Representative Amos J. Cummings of New York,
December 19th, 1890, and adopted unanimously by the House.
Resolved, etc.: "That the members of the House of Representatives
of the United States have heard with profound sorrow and feelings
akin to horror the reports of the persecutions of the Jews in
Russia, reflecting the barbarism of past ages, disgracing humanity
and impeding the progress of civilization; that our sorrow is
intensified by the fact that such occurrences should happen in a
country which has been, and is now, the firm friend of the United
States, and in a nation that clothed itself with glory, not long
since, by the emancipation of its serfs and by its defence of
helpless Christians from the oppression of the Turks; that a copy
of this resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of State with a
request that he send it to the American Minister at St. Petersburg
and that said Minister be directed to present the same to His
Imperial Majesty Alexander III, Czar of all the Russias."
THE RUSSIAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN AMERICA.
CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION IN ITS
HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS.
(Note.--In the preparation of the following article the editor has
utilized the contents of a paper read by him before the Board of
Presidents of the National Societies of Philadelphia, as a member
of that body, December 12th, 1891).
A review of the subject of American Jewish citizenship necessarily
involves a consideration of the recent accretions to the Jewish
population in this country through the immigration of those of the
expatriated Russian Jews who have found and are yet finding their way
to our shores. The influx and settlement here of this practically new
element of the population has attracted a large measure of public
attention, notwithstanding the fact that it comprises an average of not
over 8 per cent. of the total immigration. This has been due not only
to the extraordinary causes of the influx, but also to the fact that
the settlement of a large number of the newcomers in the seabord cities
has caused some disturbances in the labor market at those points.
The influence of this movement on the future development of American
Judaism is beyond our immediate purview, and its present bearing on the
Jewish community need be considered but incidentally. In view, however,
of the repeated changes in our immigration laws since 1882, when the
immigration of the Russian Jews began to reach its present marked
proportions by reason of their expulsion from their homes, and of the
agitation for such further legislation as will result in a practically
complete disbarment of these and other unfortunate victims of European
oppression, we may here properly proceed to a brief consideration of
the social, political and economic aspects of the question, both as
regards the Russian Jewish immigrants and immigration in general.
The earliest immigration movement of which a record has come down
to our day is that which carried the Hebrew Abram from "Ur of the
Chaldees" westward to the plains of Canaan. It carried with it the
latent energy whose force has been the most potent in the world's
affairs; which has become the moving spirit of the Caucasian race, and
which afforded the vehicle of development for Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. The far-reaching consequences of that first of recorded
immigrations need not be dwelt upon; it forms the prologue to the
history of civilization, a history whose epilogue is yet to be enacted,
and whose processes are not only still a living reality in the present,
but are proceeding towards an infinitely greater compass in the future.
The migration of Abraham is to be regarded, not only from the historic
standpoint, but in the most abstract scientific sense, as a force,
resulting as all forces must, from some cause of equal or greater
potentiality, and moving, as all forces do, along the lines of least
resistance. The movement proceeded, as we know, from the East, away
from, if not out of, the cradle of the Caucasian race; from where
expansion was hemmed and development was hampered, towards the West and
South where the possibilities of both were greater and the requisite
conditions more favorable. This was forty centuries ago; from that time
to the present the movement has still been westward and southward,
and by virtue of the same natural law that operated in the early dawn
of history, its course is manifestly destined to trend in the same
direction for some time longer.
In the meantime, throughout all the course of the historic past,
migration after migration has successively marked the greatest epochs
in the annals of mankind. The migration of Abraham was followed by
many others, none indeed of more far-reaching significance, but all
or nearly all of greater magnitude, and not a few of them of vast
importance as factors in the history of man. Some centuries after
Abraham's time the migration of the Canaanite Cadmus westward to
the Isles of Greece, or perhaps the migration of the Pelasgic tribes
westward from Asia Minor, opened the first chapter in the history of
Europe. Still later, through the great migrations at the close of
the Roman period, and in the early Middle Ages, the barbarians of
Europe became imbued with the leaven of Jewish ideals in the form of
Christianity, and further still in the course of time the migrations of
the hunted Jews from Germany to Poland, and from Spain to Holland and
to England, influenced permanently the current of the world's affairs.
Subsequently, the migration of the Pilgrim Fathers to North America
left an indelible impress in our modern civilization, and finally the
migrations of yesterday and to-day, trending still westward to the
Pacific, and the offshoots of the current to Australia, to New Zealand
and to South America, have opened in the history of mankind a chapter
which the Twentieth Century will not complete.
It is remarkable that of all these notable migrations, that of Abraham
may be considered as not only first in point of time, but also as
altogether normal in its character. In all the later historic movements
of this kind, the element of force is more or less definitely manifest,
but Abraham's migration was a peaceful one, and when he took up the
sword at all, it was only to benefit the people among whom he dwelt.
We find him earnestly pleading the cause of his adopted countrymen,
notwithstanding their great wickedness; he bought and paid for even his
last resting place rather than accept it as a gift, and in general he
figures on the historic horizon as in all respects not only a typical
but a model immigrant.
Had the great migrations of later times been as peaceful as that of
Abraham, the annals of humanity would have been less troubled than we
find them. But the subsequent movements of population were migrations
of masses of people, forced from their native soil by extraneous
pressure or lured away by the incitements of conquest, or by both
agencies combined, and such movements must in their very nature, be
violent and sanguinary.
The earliest peoples required for their sustenance far more space than
do equal numbers in a more civilized state. They had no developed
means of subsistence; the most primitive inhabitants relied solely
on the products of unaided nature, and these they found mainly in the
chase. As this became more difficult, or its produce scarcer, they
betook themselves to herding, a culture in itself, the first step
in civilization, and the first expedient to support an increasing
population. In this respect the inhabitants of the Eastern plains were
far in advance of their Western contemporaries; the Asiatic herdsman
was more favorably situated than the huntsman in the forests of
primeval Europe, and hence we find both culture and population first
evolved in the East and flowing thence by natural sequence towards
the West. Culture, the outgrowth of population, was first planted in
the East; there it rooted and there it blossomed, and there humanity
gathered its first fruits, but its ripened products have fructified
upon its Western grafts. Westward indeed the star of Empire has made
its way, and here on our Western Continent, under the ægis of our great
Republic, under the influence of American liberty and freedom, it seems
destined to reach its ascendant.
In the upbuilding of this Republic the descendants of the first great
emigrant have taken, as we have recorded in the preceding pages, an
ample share, and among these descendants the compatriots of the present
victims of Russian barbarity were by no means wanting. The emigration
of the Slavic Jews to America had been going on in a normal manner,
and therefore to a limited extent, for a long time before the present
exodus, and in fact, so to speak, from the beginning. After each of the
successive uprisings of Poland against the barbarous tyranny of its
Russian oppressors, from the time of Pulaski, who after leading his
countrymen vainly against the Russian hordes in 1768, came to America
to die in the struggle for liberty here; from the time of Kosciuszko,
who came here to fight successfully for the independence of our
country and then returned to fight vainly for the independence of his
own, there have been Polish emigrants to America and among them were
many Jews. Haym Solomon, who afforded one of the noblest examples of
devotion to American liberty that is recorded in our annals, was as we
have seen[122] a Polish Jew and an intimate of the two patriots named
above, and on Pulaski's staff was a Jewish officer[123] and others of
his Jewish countrymen were doubtless serving in his command.
Down to the bloody outbreak of Russian fanaticism in 1879-1880,
followed by the officially decreed expulsions of the succeeding years
the influx of the Slavic Jews, was, as we have noted, a normal tide,
like that which brought to these shores millions of immigrants from
every European country. Normally, without being forced, and of their
own volition they had come, as had the Sephardic Jews from England
and Holland during our Colonial period and in the early decades of
our independence, and as the German Jews came with the stream of
German immigration after the beginning of steam navigation and the
Revolution of 1848. The English Sephardim ceased to emigrate after
their enfranchisement in 1850; the German Jews have ceased to emigrate
since their enfranchisement in 1871, and the Polish and Russian Jews
would come in fewer numbers if they were not driven from their homes,
and would scarcely come at all if but the boon of unhampered domicile,
not to mention political liberty, were accorded to them there.
* * * * *
The calamitous condition of general suffering into which the Russian
Jews were plunged by the proscriptive policy of their government,
appears to have passed its acute stage. While the expulsion of the
Jews from the interior of the Empire and their settlement, permanent
or temporary, in the "Pale" of the Western Russian provinces,
including Poland, was in the height of its progress a few years ago,
the number of those who were eventually forced to emigrate was very
large, aggregating, it is estimated, nearly two hundred thousand in
a single year. The newcomers in the Pale, nearly all of them utterly
impoverished through pillage by the low element of the populace and by
the extortion of the officials, disorganized the economic condition
of the older settlers in the district and caused a most excessive
competition for the means of livelihood. The emigration of some of the
surplus population and the gradual reorganization of the remainder,
has tended to render the general condition less acute, and while a
considerable emigration from the Pale must, in the nature of things,
be looked for until the existent conditions are fully ameliorated, the
great exodus that marked the years 1891-2 is not likely to be repeated
unless further measures of oppression and repression are adopted by the
Russian government.
Meanwhile the world looks on while the Jews of Western Europe and
America are laboring to help those of their Russian brethren who,
unable to gain a foothold in the Pale, are forced out from their
wretched surroundings. The world looks on while the philanthropist
Maurice de Hirsch, emulating the spirit of Montefiore, is devoting
his wealth to the succor of his co-religionists and striving to found
an asylum for them on the plains of Argentina. It looks on while the
Alliance Israélite Universelle, from its headquarters in Paris, is
establishing and maintaining primary schools for the Jews throughout
the Orient, and agricultural schools for the Russian refugees in
Palestine; while this educational work is being seconded by both the
American and European branches of the Order of B'nai B'rith, and while
Edmond de Rothschild is fostering agricultural colonies near Jaffa and
Jerusalem and aiding Russian Jews to gain a foothold in the land of
their forefathers.
In our own country agricultural colonies of Russian Jews have been
founded, educational institutions built up, distribution of the
refugees effected, through the efforts of Jewish communal organizations
or by means of the funds devoted for the purpose by Baron de Hirsch,
or by both in unison. The de Hirsch Trust dispenses in this manner the
income of $2,500,000 donated for this purpose by the great-hearted
and open-handed philanthropist, supplementing to this large extent
the charitable efforts of the American Jews in their work of succor.
That work is carried on by independent local organizations both in
Europe and America, ramifying from the Vistula westward to the Golden
Gate; centering in Königsberg, Memel, Lemberg and Brody, in Berlin and
Vienna, Hamburg and Bremen, in Paris, London and Liverpool, in New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, in Chicago, San Francisco
and Portland, and at other intervening points. These organizations
are apart from the great movement organized by Baron de Hirsch and
chartered in England under the title of "The Jewish Colonization
Association." That institution, which the Baron has endowed with
the sum of $10,000,000, has its headquarters in St. Petersburg
and affiliated centers throughout the Jewish Pale, and is devoted
exclusively to furthering the Jewish emigration to the Argentine
Republic. The Russian Jewish emigrants to other lands proceed wholly
by dint of their own means or those of their relatives already in
the haven of rest, and these wayfarers are frequently impoverished
and always in need of protection and counsel. Onerous as has been
the burden which the wickedness of Russian folly has imposed on the
Jewish people at large, they have thus far coped with a reasonable
degree of success against the almost overwhelming difficulties of the
situation.[124]
During the progress of this movement a hue and cry has repeatedly been
raised all along the roads which the Russian refugees have taken in
escaping from their oppressors and in seeking an asylum and resting
place. Here in our country, where many of our State governments have
made organized efforts to induce immigration into their borders, where
numerous towns and hamlets in the interior are organizing "booms" to
increase their population, here, where the single State of Texas, with
less than two and a half millions of population, extends over an area
greater than Germany and England together; where a state like Montana,
larger than England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland combined, has a
population of but 132,000, only half as many as the single English town
of Leeds, here there have not been wanting those who have constantly
urged in Congress and in the press, that European immigration should be
not only regulated, but largely restricted and even entirely debarred.
All this because in the metropolitan centres and at times at other
points, a surplus of wage workers in one or two industries was causing
friction and disturbance.
* * * * *
This agitation, by reason of its obvious causes, may well claim our
attention in connection with our present subject.
The effort towards better material conditions which has formed the main
impulse of all emigration movements, has, as we learn from history,
been always fraught with suffering and misery for the populations first
effected, and frequently for several of the succeeding generations,
but, in the end, improvement has resulted to the greater number at
least. Even when the natural surroundings of a migrated population
are not more favorable than those of their previous experience, the
mere change of environment has generally furthered an improvement of
their social arrangements. The change of their location may disappoint
an immigrant people in their hopes of material betterment, but they
never fail to take advantage of their new beginnings to eliminate
from their new organization such conditions as their previous
experience had proved objectionable. Migrations, whether peaceful or
otherwise, and for that matter sudden changes of material conditions
generally, inevitably consume a large part of the existing powers
of those effected, but where those powers are not totally exhausted
and destroyed, where enough energy remains to form a nucleus of
recuperative force, and especially where the new material surroundings
are more favorable than those which were left behind, there a marked
improvement of all the conditions of life, physical and intellectual,
material and social, becomes developed. It would be superfluous to cite
the proofs of this proposition; the history of civilization is a record
of its examples, and its latest annals are but statements of this fact.
Palpable as is this fact, and nowhere is it more so than on this
Western Continent, and especially in our own country, there are yet
many who regard an immigrant with the narrow prejudice of mediæval
ignorance, and to whom a stranger is still, as to the barbarians of
old, an enemy. Over and over again in the course of the great new
departure which the establishment and growth of these United States
has made in the world's history, over and over again in the course of
our development, has the debarment of immigrants been proposed and
advocated. At times the opposition to the new comers has been born
of Old World animosities, at other times of religious prejudice, and
latterly we hear most frequently of restrictions proposed on political
and economic grounds.
That political reasons may justify a restriction, or even dictate the
entire debarment of certain defined classes of immigrants, is to be
admitted. Thus the exclusion of Chinese immigrants may be defended
on the grounds of a broad public policy, with reasons which cannot
logically be adduced with regard to any branch of the Caucasian race.
The most cogent of these reasons, and the one that has afforded the
only rational basis for the policy adopted, is not the economic
element of the subject, not that the Chinese live cheaply and work
cheaply, but that their assimilation with the rest of the population
is practically impossible. To what extent the theoretical possibility
of their being merged in the general population could be realized, to
what extent its realization would be desirable or the contrary, to what
extent a mixture of the Caucasian and Mongolian races would enhance
or deteriorate their respective qualities, physical and psychical, we
need not here stop to inquire. Suffice it to re-state the fact that
political, or perhaps ultimately ethnological reasons may here be
considered as prompting a course which could not reasonably be adopted
on any other ground. But in the case of immigrants of the Caucasian
race, such opposition as has been made from time to time, though
frequently insisted upon as a political necessity, can only, in the
absence of any broad ethnological basis, be argued on economic grounds.
* * * * *
The discussions engendered by propositions to restrict immigration have
recurred at various periods of our history and have been factors in
our politics from the beginning of our institutions. There was indeed
already in the old Colonial times an anti-immigration or Nativist
Party, almost before there were any natives to make it up. In fact,
the subject has cropped out whenever some slight occasion offered, and
particularly whenever politicians on the in- or the outside needed
a new string to harp upon. Some of us are old enough to remember
something of the native American agitation which began as far back
as 1835, and which took shape in the so-called "American" party,
afterwards generally known as the "Know-Nothings," about 1844. In that
year the Know-Nothing Party carried the city of New York on a mayoralty
election by a large majority, and for a time the movement spread widely
throughout the country. It developed strong religious prejudices, and
was marked by the memorable anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia.
The odium which those disgraceful outrages brought on the "American"
party was attempted to be overcome by making it a secret organization,
and in the political confusion resulting from the breaking up of the
old Whig party, the former grew to such proportions that in 1855 it
carried no less than nine state elections. That the movement then had
no vital force, but was only a political stalking-horse for partisan
purposes, became manifest in the Presidential election of 1856, when
the Know Nothing candidates carried only the State of Maryland, and
that only by aid of the remnant of the Whig party and the bludgeons
of the "Plug-Uglies." The outcome of the whole movement, politically
considered, was the complete extinction of the party organization which
had fostered, and the permanent discredit of the party leaders who had
promoted it.
But the lessons of the past, the arguments and considerations which
have repeatedly led to the rejection of a prescriptive policy, have now
to be gone over again in this later generation, and the reason for this
is plain enough. The economic aspect of the question is more permanent
than the political, and the economic argument more plausible than the
other. The objectionable features inseparable from a considerable
influx of newcomers into a community, large or small, are palpable and
on the surface, while the inestimable value of these newcomers, by
virtue of the added material and social forces with which they endow
the community, becomes perceptible only upon a closer investigation
of the subject. It thus happens that when an unusually large number
of new arrivals disturbs for a time some existing economic condition,
the community is startled by those immediately affected with an outcry
against the intruding force, and it is then only on investigation
that it becomes apparent that while indeed a comparatively few
individuals suffer, and even they but temporarily, the new element is
of far-reaching benefit to the community at large.
A quite parallel instance, as far as it goes, is the effect of the
introduction of machinery in substitution of hand labor. The history of
inventions is burdened with the details of opposition which gathered
at every step of the process through which Man has brought to his
service the forces of Nature. So too, the practical aid of immigration
in subduing the domain of Nature on this Western Continent has often
been decried as inimical to the interests of those native to the soil,
notwithstanding that even a cursory analysis of the question proves
clearly the fact that the immigrant not only does not travail against
the native's interest, but on the contrary, aids and enhances that
interest beyond all computation. Just as the throng of new inventions
temporarily disarranges existent conditions of commerce and of
industry, with the immediate result of causing economic distress to
some groups of individuals, so the tide of immigration temporarily
affects existent conditions in the centers of population, but the
eventual benefit of the new force is as certain to be felt in the
latter case as in the former.
Let us for a moment consider the character and extent of the impulses
which the influx of the newcomers imparts to the social organism. The
nature of these impulses is two-fold; the increase of numbers adds
power to the community, and the diversity of interests which is an
inevitable concomitant of increased population, brings wealth, culture,
and all the higher gains of human effort.
To elucidate these propositions we cannot do better than here quote the
carefully considered statements of the foremost of American publicists,
Henry C. Carey, himself an American of Americans, and the great
expounder of the protective system of political economy. As Chairman
of the Committee on Industrial Interests and Labor, in its report to
the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania in 1873, referring to the
Immigration question, he writes as follows:
"Closing their eyes to the important facts which have been thus
presented, very many of our working men look with jealous eyes at
every measure tending toward bringing those of other countries
to take a place side by side with them, believing, as they do,
that the more the supply of labor the lower must certainly become
the price. Nevertheless, could they but be persuaded to study
carefully the facts of even the last twenty years they could not
fail to become impressed with the fact, that growth of wages has
always kept even pace with growth of immigration; the reward of
labor on the contrary declining as immigration has been arrested
or destroyed. At no previous period had the demand for labor, or
its reward, grown so rapidly as in the early years of the great
California one, say from 1850 to 1854, when immigration grew to
400,000. At none, has labor been more in excess of the demand
than in the years that followed the great crisis of 1857, when
immigration declined to figures scarcely greater than had been
attained 20 years before; and when, as in 1860-61, not one out of
five of the skilled workmen of the country was steadily employed.
Here, in Philadelphia, when it was desired to build a street
railroad they advertised for two hundred and fifty hands at but
sixty cents a day, and had more than five thousand offered, a
majority of whom were skilled artisans who were wholly out of work.
In the neighborhood of one great establishment, a rolling mill, the
number of unemployed men was so great that the county authorities,
to save its skilled workmen from open pauperism, determined to
build a turnpike, employing experienced hands at breaking stone,
for fifty cents a day, rather than supporting them as paupers. At
no period of our history has the reward of labor grown so rapidly
as in the last ten years, when the exodus of European working men
has so rapidly increased that the states of Central and Western
Europe now find themselves forced to consideration of the measures
required for retaining their countrymen at home; and when the
highest German authorities admit that the pecuniary loss resulting
from training and educating men for export to this country has
now already more than counterbalanced the French indemnity of
$1,200,000,000. To all appearance the immigration of the present
year will closely approach to half a million; and yet it is at
this moment, in face of so wonderful an addition to our stock of
working men and women, that we have a determined agitation for
bringing about a reduction of time and increase of wages. In the
years prior to the rebellion, when immigration so largely declined,
the agitation was for employment at almost any price. Why is this?
Why is it that, contrary to the rule elsewhere observed, demand for
labor goes ahead of supply when this latter is great, and falls
behind it when the supply is small? To this the answer is, that the
power to compel nature to labor in man's service increases almost
geometrically as numbers increase arithmetically; as employment
becomes diversified; and as men are more enabled to combine their
efforts for attainment of that object."
* * * * *
"As a consequence of the great increase in the power of combination
that has thus been brought about, we find the manufacturing product
of the country to have grown in the period 1860 to 1872, from 1800
to 5000 millions, the mere increase having been almost twice the
total amount to which the country had attained in the centuries
that had preceded the war of the rebellion. Adding to the figures
the foreign manufactures consumed, we obtain for the first--a
period when immigration was rapidly declining--a total consumption
of about $65 per head; whereas in the period which since has
passed, and in which immigration has so greatly grown, it has risen
to more than $130 per head. So far, therefore, is the working man
from having occasion to dread the competition of the immigrant,
that he needs, night and morning, to pray for maintenance of that
policy which is now making demand on Europe for so much of its
half fed and half clothed population, thereby compelling both
landed and manufacturing capitalists to the adoption of measures
tending so to improve the condition of them who are left behind
as to induce them to forego the idea of abandoning their native
land. Never in the world's history has there been furnished
such conclusive evidence of the fact, that measures tending to
benefit the working man anywhere tend toward raising his condition
everywhere; and that, therefore, there is a perfect harmony in the
real and permanent interests of mankind at large."
* * * * *
As still more directly bearing on this subject, I quote from the same
report as follows:
"Less than a dozen years since, our working men looked jealously
upon the negro, believing that any measure tending toward his
emancipation would certainly be followed by such an influx of cheap
labor as must seriously affect themselves. Directly the reverse,
the negro migrates to Texas and there becomes a customer for
manufactured products of a class greatly higher than that of those
which his master had been accustomed to purchase for his slave."
Carey here reaches the very pith of the question. Every newcomer
becomes a customer for those already on the ground, for all that he
needs for his maintenance, just as the new born babe furnishes a new
customer for the dry goods store, the milk man, not to mention the
doctor and sometimes the lawyer. The baby, it is true, does not, as the
phrase goes, "enter into competition" for a living, while the immigrant
does, but in this respect the latter is the more valuable acquisition,
for unless the immigrant is supported by charity, he has to produce
at least as much as he consumes, and thus the community is an
inevitable gainer by his presence. Inasmuch as a very large proportion
of the immigrants produce more than they consume, in other words,
save something of their earnings, it is manifest that the community
gains doubly by their presence. It gains through the increase by the
immigrant of the general social force, in his contribution to the total
of the community's traffic and exchange, and also gains through the
newcomer's addition to the general capital stock.
But, it is urged on the other hand, this may all be true of some kinds
of immigrants, and not be true of others who are low in the scale of
moral worth and of physical and intellectual capacity, and it is
these whose coming should be restricted. Be it so; we may safely admit
this proposition, and proceed thence to the sole remaining problem of
drawing the line.
Where shall this line be drawn? The native American agitation proceeded
on the very ground we have postulated, and grew to the proportions
of carrying a majority in no less than nine states. It grew to these
proportions as the result of an agitation that arose from the influx
of impoverished Irishmen after the famine of 1847, and of their
followers from Scotland and England in the succeeding decade. Has the
agitation been justified by time? Have the prophecies of the Know
Nothings that our people could not possibly assimilate the great mass
of foreigners who were then thronging hither, whose proportion to the
native population was even greater than it is now, who were alien to
our institutions and our laws, in habits and in religion at variance
with the great majority of the citizens, been fulfilled? Of course
not; the facts have but developed what the common sense of the people
soon perceived to be true. These immigrants have all been assimilated.
Those of them that survive, and their children assuredly, have become
thoroughly Americanized and effectually welded into the commonalty of
our republic.
How was it with the Germans who came hither in such swarms under
the allurements of the great gold finds in the West, and the growth
of steam navigation on the ocean after 1850? They too have been
assimilated, notwithstanding that through their variance in language
they were even more differentiated from the native inhabitants than
the immigrants from the British Isles. How about the Scandinavians and
the Holland Dutch, the French and Italians? Has the grafting of these
scions on the rooted stem degenerated the stock? We have ample evidence
to the contrary, sufficiently palpable to need no citation in detail.
Where then shall we draw the line? We have seen that the immigrant,
though he arrives penniless as tens of thousands of them have done and
do, does certainly not impoverish the community. We have seen, on the
contrary, that though he arrives penniless, he enhances the wealth of
the community by bringing with him the germ of all commodities, Labor.
Where then shall we draw the line? Shall we exclude the poor Roman
Catholic Pole, who is driven from his home by the vindictive policy
of his barbarous conquerer? Does he not bring energy and labor? Shall
we exclude the Russian Jew, who is driven from his native soil by the
stupid villany of the same Tartar barbarism? Is his thrift and industry
likely to impoverish our community? The pious fools who, four hundred
years ago, drove three hundred thousand of such people from the Iberian
Peninsula had a bigger majority than the Know Nothings of later date
who wanted to do as much for the Roman Catholics fifty years ago, and
they had their way. They diminished the population according to their
wish, but they wrought the ruin of the then richest nation of Europe, a
ruin from which it has even to this day not yet arisen.
No; let the immigrants come, as they have come. Let us but guard
ourselves against the preventable evils which are likely to attend
their coming, by the careful enforcement of the laws that are enacted
to that end. Let us draw the line so as to exclude the habitual
paupers, the habitual criminals, the incurably insane; the rest will
take care of themselves and add to our well being and our wealth by
filling up the waste stretches of the great expanse behind us; they
will but follow in the way trodden by the immigrants who landed two
hundred and seventy years ago at Plymouth Rock, and will work out their
salvation as did their predecessors by making the desert to blossom as
the rose.
NOTE:--Various movements for the relief of the Russian refugees
have been organized independently from 1882 on by the Jewish
communities throughout the country and especially in the seabord
cities. The renewed severity of the Russian persecutions in 1890
called forth a general movement for the relief of the sufferers
which was focused at a convention held in Philadelphia, February
16, 1891, and which resulted in the formation of the "Jewish
Alliance of America."[125] This organization was composed in the
main of Russian Jews already settled in this country, but the
increasing demand on the Jewish people by the extraordinarily large
influx of the refugees during 1891 necessitated a more general
organization of the measures for their relief. To that end the
Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund issued a call[126] for a
general convention of representatives of the Jewish organizations
throughout the country, which accordingly met in New York City
on September 23, 1891. This convention[127] resolved itself into
"The American Committee for Ameliorating the Condition of Russian
Refugees," and elected an Executive Committee[128] to carry out its
plans. With this organization the Jewish Alliance of America was
merged in February, 1892, but with the diminution of the influx
in the course of that year the united organization devolved its
functions on a "Central Committee" composed of members of the
American Committee, the Baron de Hirsch Trust and the United Hebrew
Charities of New York.
* * * * *
The several organized movements above noted elicited earnest
expressions of sympathy from many leading men in our community. A
number of these are so pointed and relevant to our present subject
matter as to dictate their citation in this connection.
On the occasion of the movement for the formation of the Jewish
Alliance, CARDINAL GIBBONS wrote as follows, under date of Baltimore,
Dec. 15th, 1890.
"Every friend of humanity must deplore the systematic persecution
of the Jews in Russia.
"For my part, I cannot well conceive how Christians can entertain
other than kind sentiments towards the Hebrew race, when I consider
how much we are indebted to them. We have from them the inspired
volume of the Old Testament, which has been a consolation in
all ages to devout souls. Christ, our Lord, the Founder of our
religion, His blessed mother, as well as the Apostles, were all
Jews according to the flesh. These facts attach me strongly to the
Jewish race."
* * * * *
The call for the convention which resulted in the organization of the
American Committee for Ameliorating the Condition of Russian Refugees,
elicited the following letter from Judge DILLON to Mr. Seligman:
Dear Sir: Coming to this place (Saratoga) on the train from New
York, I saw in the _Evening Post_ a statement that prominent
Hebrews in all parts of the United States have been invited by
the Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund to meet in this city on
Wednesday, September 23rd in the building of the Hebrew Educational
Alliance at East Broadway and Jefferson streets, for the purpose
of co-operating in the formation of an American Relief Committee
to make the best possible disposition of the exiled Russian Jews
coming to this country.
The persecution of your people with mediæval cruelty, whereby
they are exiled without cause, suddenly and _en masse_, with all
the multiplied and nameless hardships and sufferings which must
necessarily attend such an exodus, from a country in which they
had lived for generations and had the right to peacefully remain,
has awakened among all right-thinking persons sympathy for the
victims and indignation against their oppressors. This is not a
matter that appeals alone to the people of your race. It appeals
to every man with a heart of flesh in his bosom. There remains no
longer any place for prejudice or selfishness. Reports are made
that some Jewish refugees have already been sent back from this
country for fear that they may become a public charge. This must
not be. Without shame we cannot remain idle and cold spectators and
see this done under our very eyes. Ever since the establishment of
our nation, it has been its just boast that it was the asylum of
the toiling and oppressed people of all other countries, who in
good faith sought our shores with a view of permanent residence and
citizenship. I am not criticising necessary or provident defensive
modification of this policy, but the former considerations have
a rightful application to your fugitive people, who in their
necessity come from preference to this land of freedom to find and
make themselves homes.
I would as soon shut my door against a benighted wanderer seeking
refuge from the merciless blizzard as to shut our national ports
against those of your people, who, stricken like wild beasts, are
driven here in the stress of the raging storm which threatens their
destruction. Let us receive them with welcome and hospitality. Let
us show to the nations of the world that there is one spot on God's
earth where these unfortunate exiles may rest their tired feet, set
up again their household goods, reconstruct their ruined homes and
worship in peace the God of their fathers.
I notice in the article referred to that it is proposed "to appeal
to the Jews of the United States to unite in a co-operative plan
to find homes and employment for Russian immigrants." I beg to
suggest that this concerns not your people alone. It quite as
deeply concerns the good name of the American people to see that no
refugee shall be returned for poverty, or for any cause, save for
crime, or shall be allowed to suffer until he can find work.
I do not rest these sentiments upon the unfeigned respect I
feel for the immemorial traditions and glorious history of your
people, who in theology, ethics, philosophy, arts, literature,
jurisprudence and legislation have either led the thought of the
world or kept abreast with it. I prefer to rest them upon the
broader, higher and truer ground, that these exiles are men, with
all the inprescriptable rights that belong to men because they are
men, irrespective of religion, race or nationality, rights which
governments do not create or confer, so they cannot rightfully deny
or destroy. I enclose my check for the cause (would it were more),
and in doing so, I could not refrain, before resting my head upon
my pillow, to thus state the reasons why I did it.
With great respect, I am as ever,
Very truly yours,
JOHN F. DILLON.
TO JESSE SELIGMAN, Esq.
* * * * *
On the same occasion as that noted above, HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
expressed himself as follows:
"We behold to-day in Russia with horror the amazing spectacle in
the nineteenth century of the whole power of the government brought
to bear upon three millions of Hebrews to treat them as aliens and
enemies. They have been for three hundred years the subjects and
the citizens of the Russian Empire, and yet the whole power of
the state, of its army, of its civil force, is brought to bear to
deprive them of the opportunities of employment and to refuse them,
except within certain limits, the right to live in the country
where their ancestors have lived for ten to twenty generations.
It is because monarchical institutions, autocratic institutions,
class institutions do not possess the power of assimilation and of
homogeneity.
"In the past fifty years, fifteen millions of people have come to
this country from abroad. They belonged to every race, they spoke
every language but our own. They worshipped in every form, under
every symbol and in every creed. But American liberty solved the
problem. These people did not know about our institutions, or
understand them. They had been taught to believe that liberty was
license, and yet the solvent power of American liberty made them
citizens and gave to the immigrants of a few years ago, the same
rights before the law and in making the law that is possessed by
the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers. These fifteen millions
of people, under the operation of this glorious principle, have
become bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. They have aided in
the development of the country; they have assisted in increasing
its wealth, its power and its glory, and have marched with equal
step and equal love under the old flag for the preservation of the
glorious Republic which had made them free."
* * * * *
Following is an extract from a letter written to Hon. Simon Wolf by
Father Sylvester Malone, of St. Peter and Paul Church, Brooklyn:
I have listened to St. Patrick's Day discussions in time past
in which your co-religionists were likened to the Irish. Both
suffered because of their holding with such tenacity to what was
their belief. This was true in the case of the Hebrew in his own
native land and in every other land whither tyranny forced him to
emigrate. The Irish have been the victims of cruel persecution
in their own native land. Here, however, they are free, and are
always successful when they do not by some fault of their own mar
their best hopes of success. The Jewish people too have had great
success in America, but the later emigration, directly from Russia,
has not been acceptable to many of our citizens. They have run the
gauntlet, as my countrymen had to do some fifty years ago. They
must learn wisdom and patience."
* * * * *
As an instructive conclusion to our present subject we add the
following extract from the New York _Sun_ of September 1st, 1894. It
needs no further comment:
"In the Jews, Judaism is deeply ingrained. As many as 10,000 or
12,000 of the Jewish tailors of this city were on a strike for
higher wages all last week; and day after day they loitered in
the streets, or congregated in their hall, or sat down any where
to talk in their jargon. But upon the forenoon of Saturday last
the strikers, who had been highly excited the day before, were
not to be found at their usual places of rendezvous. Nearly all
of them had gone to their synagogues. They were engaged in Divine
worship. They were at prayer. They were listening to the voice of
the rabbi. They were following a custom established by Moses, and
kept up through all the ages ever since his time. In the hundreds
of garrets, rear halls, and rickety old edifices which are used
as synagogues in what is called the "ghetto," on the east side of
New York, the Jews on strike celebrated the everlasting name of
"JAHVEH" last Saturday forenoon, the holy Sabbath.
"This is Judaism in New York and the world over.
"Lots of workingmen, who are called Christians, go on a strike from
time to time, but who is there that ever heard of any body of
strikers other than Jews, giving heed to the ceremonies of their
religion during the heat of a strike? We are told that nearly all
of these Jewish strikers are orthodox, and all wore their hats in
the synagogues. Many of them, we are assured, are familiar with the
Torah and the Talmud, and can quote Ben Ezra and Maimonides....
"Judaism is in the bones of the Jews, and of all Jews, from the
equator to the poles.
"Was there ever any crowd of Presbyterian strikers, or of Baptist,
Methodist, or Unitarian strikers, or of Roman Catholic strikers,
who made it their business to go to church in a body, for the
purpose of engaging in worship and prayer, during a strike? Let
us ask Rev. Dr. John Hall, or Bishop Simpson, or that learned and
mirthful priest, Father Flattery, not to speak of the eminent
Dominican, Father O'Neil, or our three Universalist preachers.
"The Jews of New York, like the Jews of all the rest of the world,
believe in Judaism, and are rooted and grounded in it.
"Oh, that we could say that the people who call themselves
Christians believe in Christianity and practise it, either at work
or when on strike!"
FOOTNOTES:
[122] Page 15.
[123] See page 51.
[124] See note, p. 559.
[125] The officers of this organization were as follows:
_President_: Simon Muhr, Philadelphia.
_Vice Presidents_: Hon. Ferdinand Levy, New York; Rev. Dr. H. W.
Schneeberger, Baltimore; Dr. Chas. D. Spivak, Philadelphia.
_Secretary_: Bernard Harris, Philadelphia.
_Treasurer_: Hon. Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C.
_Board of Directors--Philadelphia_: Louis E. Levy, Chas. Hoffman, Dr.
Solomon Solis-Cohen; _Baltimore_: Jacob J. H. Mitnick, Joseph Eisner,
S. L. Auerbach; _New York_: Daniel P. Hays, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger;
_Chicago_: Dr. A. P. Kadison, A. Bernstein; _Boston_: David Blaustein;
_Pittsburg, Pa._: Wm. Hoffman; _Albany, N. Y._: Louis Aronowitch;
_Troy, N. Y._: H. Kuschevsky; _Omaha, Neb._: B. Kohn.
[126] The call was signed by the officers of the Baron de
Hirsch Fund as follows:
_President_: Myer S. Isaacs.
_Vice President_: Jacob H. Schiff.
_Treasurer_: Jesse Seligman.
_Honorary Secretary_: Julius Goldman.
_Trustees_: Oscar S. Straus, Henry Rice, and James H. Hoffman, of New
York; Mayer Sulzberger, and Wm. B. Hackenburg, of Philadelphia.
_General Agent_: Adolphus S. Solomons, Washington, D. C.
[127] The convention was organized with the following named
officers:
_President_: Lewis Seasongood, Cincinnati; _Vice Presidents_: Lazarus
Silverman, Chicago, Joseph Fox, New York; _Secretaries_: Adolphus S.
Solomon, Washington, and Bernard Harris, Philadelphia.
[128] The Executive Committee thus elected, in addition to
the general officers, was composed of representatives of various
organizations in different sections of the country, as follows:
_New York_: Henry Rice, Julius Bien, Jacob H. Schiff, Morris Tuska,
Ferdinand Levy, Isaac Hamburger, M. Warley Platzek; _Philadelphia_:
Simon Muhr, Louis E. Levy; _Baltimore_: Aaron Friedenwald; _Boston_:
Jacob Hecht; _Cincinnati_: Julius Freiburg; _Chicago_: Adolph Loeb,
Julius Rosenthal; _Peoria, Ill._: Samuel Woolner; _Washington, D.
C._: Simon Wolf; _Milwaukee_: Bernard Gross; _St. Louis, Mo._: Marcus
Bernheimer; _Portland, Or._: David Solis-Cohen; _Detroit, Mich._:
Martin Butzel; _Minneapolis, Minn._: Emanuel Cohen; _Atlanta, Ga._:
Aaron Haas; _Galveston, Tex._: Leo. N. Levi; _Memphis, Tenn._: Elias
Loewenstein; _Ex-Officio_, Myer S. Isaacs, _New York_.
The Committee organized by electing as Chairman, M. Warley Platzek, of
New York, and as Vice Chairman, Julius Freiburg, of Cincinnati, the
Secretaries of the General Committee acting in the same capacity on the
Executive Committee.
CONCLUSION.
The project of the present volume had contemplated a lesser number of
pages than it now includes, but it has been restricted to its present
bounds only by eliminating much that was germane to its subject. The
grand fabric of Jewish charity, whose broad expanse extends throughout
the land, compassing every element of society, responsive to every call
of humanity, expressive of every trait of civilization and conducive
to every avenue of culture, has been adverted to but incidentally. In
the field of philanthropic effort the Jewish citizens of the American
Union may unhesitatingly claim to have built for themselves monuments
more numerous and larger by far than their proportionate share; in
this field the historic spirit of Judaism continues even increasingly
to manifest itself. In this field and in this alone the Jewish spirit
has been materialistic. Its forces have been directed not to saving
souls by a change of creed, but by bettering the conditions of human
existence. The great ideals of Judaism, the universal fatherhood of
God, the universal brotherhood of men, and the direct responsibility of
every human being to the Maker of all, have steadfastly been upheld,
but its forces have not been exerted in striving to make good the
seeming shortcomings of the Divine nature, but in striving to make good
the essential shortcomings of our human nature, by alleviating the
distresses arising from the constitution of society and by lessening
the sufferings that are inevitably incident to the conditions of life.
To this end the American Jewish citizens have organized a widely
diversified system of relief for the sick and the needy, and while
so doing have not restricted their efforts within denominational
bounds, but have opened their doors and stretched out their hands to
all humanity. Not alone, however, in dealing with conditions that
are inseparable from the social system, but furthermore in dealing
with such as are removable, in educating and lifting up those of the
community who are in need of fostering care, in furthering the spread
of intelligence and in raising the standard of citizenship, the Jewish
people have been unceasingly active, and especially so in free America,
where, as the foregoing pages have recorded, they have stood from
the very beginning "shoulder to shoulder" with their fellow citizens
of every creed, in every movement that has made for freedom and for
liberty, for culture and for charity. And well they might. To no others
of the Old World denizens was the New World more completely new; for
no other people has the promise of the Columbian epoch been more
completely fulfilled than for the Jews.
And, therefore, more especially while the closing years of the
nineteenth century have seen its brilliant promise darkened by a broad
shadow of the Middle Ages; while the ghastly tragedy that marked in
Spain the opening year of American discovery is being rehearsed in
Russia with all the effects of modern aggrandizement, we may not better
close this book than with the grand apostrophe of the Columbian year
that has been left us by the Jewish poetess, Emma Lazarus:
Thou, two-faced year, mother of Change and Fate,
Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword
The children of the prophets of the Lord.
Prince, priest and people spurned by zealot hate,
Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,
The West refused them and the East abhorred,
No anchorage the known world could afford,
Close locked was every port, barred every gate.
Then smiling, thou unveil'dst, O two-faced year,
A virgin world where doors of sunset part,
Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!
Here falls each ancient barrier that the art
Of race or creed or rank devised, to rear
Grim-bulwarked hatred between heart and heart.'
INDEX.
Aboab, Ishac, de Fonseca, 446, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454
Abraham, Lewis, two papers by, 53-66
Accoignes, Moise, 447
Adams, Charles Francis, 91-96
Adams, Hannah, referred to, 462 (note 51)
Adams, Professor Herbert B., paper by, 14-26
Adams, John, 61
Adams, John Quincy, 64
Addenda to Lists of Soldiers, 423
Adler, Dr. Cyrus, referred to, 475 (note 78)
Adler, Rabbi Liebman, 425
Aguilar, Moses Raphael de, 446, 453, 454
Ainsworth, Colonel F. C., referred to, 11
Alabama, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 117-122
Alexander I, of Russia, 533
Alexander II, of Russia, 528, 530, 535, 539, 540
Alexander III, of Russia, 519, 543
Alliance, Jewish, of America, 559, 560
American Committee for Ameliorating the Condition of Russian Refugees,
559, 560
American Party, 552, 553
Antokolski, Russian sculptor, 536
Appel, Alexander M., Sergeant Major, 187
Appleton, William, 63
Arias, Isaac, 465
Arkansas, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 123-124
Argentina, Emigration to, 538, 550
Baltimore Jewish Patriots, 38-40
Bamberger, Dr. Ludwig, 536
Barrios, Don Miguel Levi de, 449, 455, 456
Beaulieu, M. Anatole Leroy, quoted, 515-522
Beecher, Henry Ward, quoted, 439
Belmonte, Benvenida, 464
Benedix, Robert, quoted, 510-511
Benjamin, Judah P., 102
Berndt, Dr. J. D., 440-441
Bismarck, Otto von, quoted, 503
Blaine, James G., letter to John W. Foster, on rights of American
Israelites in Russia, 525-527
Bliss, Cornelius N., quoted, 439
Bloom, Nathan, 429
Blumenberg, Leopold, Brevet Brigadier-General, 199-200
Brackenridge, H. M., quoted, 67 (note)
Brewster, Hon. F. Carroll, quoted, 506
Brito, Abraham de, 465
Bromet, H. L., 460
Brothers-in arms, 109-111 Cohen (6), North Carolina, 109 Jonas (5),
Mississippi and Illinois, 109 Moses (5), South Carolina, 109 Moses (4),
Georgia, 110 Cohen (3), Arkansas, 110 Goldsmith (3), Georgia and South
Carolina, 110 Levy (3), Virginia, 110 Moses (3), Alabama, 110 Wenk (5),
New York, 111 Feder (3), New York, 111 Levy (4), New York, 111 Emanuel
(3), Pennsylvania, 111 Koch (3), Ohio, 111
Bryant, William Cullen, quoted, 509-510
Bunker Hill Monument, 63-64
Bush, Isidor, 429
Bush, Mathias, 13
California, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 125-126
Carey, Henry C., quoted, 554-556
Carmoly, Dr. E., referred to, 456 (note 34), quoted, 460 (note 47)
Carvalho, Isaac, 467
Carvalho, Sebastian, 447
Castanho, Isaac, 450
Catharine II, of Russia, 526, 527
Chase, Miss Kate, 89
Chase, Hon. Salmon P., 89, 97
Chittenden, L. E., 87, 90, article by, 91-97
Civil Life, Jewish Patriotism in, 425-441
Clinton, Sir Henry, 16
Coen, Abraham, 449, 451
Coen, Jacob, 449
Cohen, Abraham, Captain, 244-245
Cohen, Benjamin, 44
Cohen, Dr. Marx E., 374
Cohen, Brothers (six), 374
Cohn, Abraham, Adjutant, 106 (medal of honor); 224-226
Colonies, Jewish Agricultural; in America, 549; in Argentina, 550; in
Palestine, 549; in Russia, 533
Colonization, the Jewish, Association, 550
Commission to investigate condition of affairs in Russia, 524-525
Connecticut, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 127
Confederate Army, Jewish Staff Officers in the, 114-115
Confederate Navy, Jewish Officers in the, 116
Continental Armies, Jewish Soldiers in the, 44-52
Cooper, General, 103
Cordoso, Daniel, 482
Coronel, David Senior, 450
Costa, Isaac de, referred to, 449, 451 (note 20), 452 (note 21), 453
(note 25), 458 (note 42), 460 (note 46), 461 (note 50)
Cullum, General George W., referred to, 35
Cummings, Representative Amos J., introduces a resolution about the
Jews in Russia, 543
Curtis, George William, quoted, 506-508
Daly, Hon. Charles P., referred to, 33, 41, 444 (note), 446 (note)
D'Angers, David, 62
Daniels, A. C., referred to, 430 (note)
Davidson, Solomon, 125
Davis, Jefferson, 93
Davis, Ex-Judge Noah, quoted, 436-437
De Candolle, Alphonse L. P. Pyrame, quoted, 490-491
Depew, Hon. Chauncey M., quoted on Russian Jews, 562-563
Dexter, Franklin, 64
Dillon, Hon. John F., letter on Russian Jews, 561-562
District of Columbia, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 128
Dyer, Isidor, 440
Ebron, David, Letter to Philip II, 473-176
Einhorn, Dr. David, 425
Einstein, Max, Colonel, 349-350
Eliot, George, quoted, 499-500
Etting, Solomon, 44, 67
Europe, Jews in the Armies of, 485-487
Everett, Edward, 64
Field, Rev. Dr. Henry M., quoted, 494-498
Fish, Hamilton, Secretary of State, letter by him to Consul General
Peixotto, of Roumania, 542-543
Florida, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 128
Forsyth, John, Secretary of State, letter by him to David Porter,
Minister to Turkey, on outrages on the Jews, 541
Frank, Mayer, Captain, 141
Frankel, Dr. Zachariah, referred to, 447 (note 9), 449 (note 13), 451
(note 20), 456 (note 36), 462 (note 51)
Franklin, Benjamin, 30, 65
Franks, David, 13
Franks, David S., 15, 27-32
Franks, Rebecca, 27
Frederic, Harold, referred to, 525
Frederick III, of Germany, 535
Friedenwald, Dr. Herbert, referred to, 25, 27, 30
Friedheim, Herman, 191
Friedman, Max, Colonel, 351
Fuerst, Dr. Julius, 456 (note 34)
Gans, Isaac (medal of honor), 107
Garfield, President James Abram, 429
Georgia, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 129-135
Gibbons, Cardinal, about the Russian Jews, 560
Goldsmid, Sir Francis H., referred to, 483
Goldsmith, M., 103, 104
Gordon, General J. B., referred to, 11
Gradis Family, enterprise and influence of, in the West Indies and
during the Canadian Wars, 476-482
Grant, General U.S., referred to, 6, 429, 430; official paper by, 542
Graetz, Professor Dr. H., quoted, 447, 451, 452, 477 (notes 79 and 80),
480 (notes 81 and 82)
Gratz, Barnard, 13
Gratz, Michael, 13
Greenebaum, Henry, 425
Greenebaum, Michael, 425-426
Greenhut, Joseph B., Captain, sketch of and address by, 143-149
Gregoire, Abbé, 482
Gross, Charles, Ph.D., referred to, 442 (note)
Grunwalt, Abraham (medal of honor), 107
Hackenburg, William B., referred to, 6
Hahn, Dr. A., referred to, 449 (note 13), 450, 452, 453 (note 25), 461
(note 50), 466 (note 59)
Hancock, John, 63
Harby, Isaac, 67
Harper, E. B., quoted, 438
Hart, Abraham, Captain and Brigade Adjutant-General, 354-355
Hart, Isaac, 33-34
Hart, Jacob, 38
Heilprin, Michael, 425
Heller, Henry (medal of honor), 106
Hendricks, Herman, 35
Herrera, Abraham Cohen, 450
Hewitt, Hon. Abram S., quoted, 438, 505-506
Hirsch, Baron Maurice de, 535, 549
Hirsch, Baron de, Trust, in the United States, 559
Historical Society, American Jewish, referred to 430 (note)
Hollander, Dr. J. H., annotations by, 14-26
Horwitz, Dr. James, 425
Howe, General William, 41, 46
Humboldt, Alexander Von, quoted, 490
Hyacinthe, Père, quoted, 492-493
Hyneman, Elias Leon, Sergeant, sketch of, 356-357
Illinois, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 136-171
Immigration, Historical and Economic Aspects of, 544-564; from British
Isles, 557; Chinese, 551-552; German, 548, 557; Polish, 547; Report of
Commissioners on, 524, 529; Sephardic-Jewish, 548; Slavic-Jewish, 519,
548
Indiana, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 172-186
Iowa, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 187
Isaacs, Rev. Samuel M., 425
Jacobs, Benjamin, 26
Jacobs, Joseph, 13
Jamaica, Civil and Military Status of the Jews in, 482-484
Jamaica, List of Jews appointed to Civil and Military office since the
Act of 1831 in, 483-484
James, Thomas L., ex-Postmaster General, quoted, 435-436
Jastrow, Professor Morris, Jr., referred to, 27
Jay, John, 30
Jefferson, Thomas, 59-60; statute of, 62-63, 65
Joachimsen, Philip J., Brevet-Brigadier-General, 262-263
Josephsen, Manuel, 58
Jost, Dr. I. M., referred to, 453
Judah, Samuel, 34
Kansas, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 188
Karpeles, Leopold, Color-Sergeant, 106 (medal of honor), 204-206
Kayserling, Dr. M., referred to, 442, 446 (note), 449 (note 14), 450
(note 17), 451 (note 20), 453 (note 24), 454 (note 26), 455 (notes 28
and 32), 457 (note 42), 459 (note 44), 461 (note 49), 462 (note 52),
463 (notes 53 and 54), 464 (note 55), 465 (note 56), 466 (note 58), 467
(note 60), 468 (note 61), 473 (note 75), 474 (note 77)
Kentucky, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 188-189
Knefler, Frederick, Brigadier-General, 179
Know-Nothing Party, 552, 553, 557
Koenen, H. J., referred to, 443 (note), 444 (note), 462, 453 (note 24),
454 (notes 26 and 27), 455 (notes 28 and 31), 456, 457 (notes 37, 38,
39, 40, and 41), 458 (note 43), 460 (note 46), 462 (note 52), 463 (note
53), 464 (notes 55 and 56), 465 (note 58), 467 (note 60), 468 (note
61), 469 (note 64), 470 (notes 65 and 67), 471 (notes 68 and 69), 483
(note 84)
Kohler, Max J., referred to, 11; article by, 27-43, 430 (note)
Kohn, Abraham, 427-428
Kohut, Dr. Adolph, quoted, 486 (note)
Kohut, George A., referred to, 11, 442; article by, 443-484
Kosciuszko, General, 16, 547
Kossuth, Louis, 485, 486
Labatt, David Cohen, Captain, 195
La Fatte, Gabriel de, 469
Lafayette, General de, 38, 39
Laguna, Daniel Israel Lopez, referred to, 464 (note 55)
Lasalle, Ferdinand, 536
Lasker, Eduard, 536
Latin-American Settlements, Jews in, 442
Lawrence Amos, 63, 64
Lazarus, Emma, her poem, "1492" cited, 566
Leeser, Rev. Isaac, article quoted, 40, 485-486 (note)
_Le Monde_, quoted, 492-494
Levi, Leo N., 100
Levis, Chevalier de, 32-33
Levy, Benjamin, 13-26
Levy, Benjamin, 270-271
Levy, Benjamin B. (medal of honor), 106
Levy, Eugene H., referred to, 11
Levy, Hayman, 34
Levy, Hyman, Jr., 13
Levy, Samson, 13
Levy, Uriah Phillips, Commander, 62, 63, 81, 84
Levy, father and three sons, sketches, 275-276
Lichtenstein, L., referred to, 11
Lincoln, President Abraham, 87, 107, 427, 429
Lopez, Aaron, 33
Louisiana, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 190-199
Loyalty, Sketches of Jewish, etc., 443-484
Luria, Albert (Moses), Lieutenant, 303
Lyon, General, referred to, 7
Lyon, Samuel, 26
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, quoted, 500-502
Mack, Henry, 429
Madison, President James, 17, 18 (note), 25, 60
Maine, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 199
Malone, Rev. Sylvester, letter on Russian Jews, 563
Marlon, General, 26
Markens, Isaac, referred to, 11, 39, 430 (note)
Marquand, Henry G., quoted, 438
Marx, Karl, 536
Maryland, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 199-200
Massachusetts, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 201-209
Maurice of Nassau, Count, 445, 448, 449 (note 15), 451
Mayer, Daniel, Captain, letter to, 395
Mayer, Leopold, 425
Mayer, William, General, 284
McDougall, General, 16
McKinley, Governor William, quoted, 427-428
Medals of Honor, Jews who received, 106-108
Menken, Nathan D., Captain, 364
Mercado, Dr. Abraham de, 450
Mexican War, Jewish Soldiers in the, 72-75
Michelbacher, Rev. M., 102, 103
Michigan, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 209-214
Mississippi, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 214-220
Missouri, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 220-223
Mohammedan Outrages on the Jews, 541
Montefiore, Sir Moses, 534, 549
Morais, the Rev. Dr. Sabato, 425
Morais, Henry S., referred to, 11, 20 (note 6), 430 (note)
Mordecai, Alfred, Major, 78-79
Mordecai, Alfred, Jr., Colonel, 79
Mordecai, Moses, 13
Morris, Robert, 17, 22, 30, 38
Morton, Governor Marcus, 64
Morwitz, Dr. Edward, 425
Moses, Isaac, 26
Moses, Isaac, Adjutant-General, 279
Moses, Israel, Lieutenant-Colonel, 74, 281
Moses, Jacob, 34
Moses, Five Brothers, 378
Mucate, Jahacob, 450
Muhr, Simon, 441
Myers, Rev. E. M., referred to, 453, 469 (note 63)
Myers, Isaac, 44
Myers, Jacob, 34
Myers, Nathan, 35
Naar, Moses, 468, 469
Napoleon III, 88
Nassy, David, 454, 463, 465, 466, 468
Nassy, Isaac, 469
Nassy, Samuel, 454-459
Nations, Israel Among the, 515-522
Navy, Jews in the United States, 81-86
Negro Revolts, Suppression of, by the Jews of Surinam (1690-1772),
462-473
Netscher, Pieter Marinus, 444 (note 2), 445 (note 4), 446 (note 5),
447, 448
Nevada, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 224
New Hampshire, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 224-226
New Jersey, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 226-236
Newman, Leopold, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brigadier-General, 285
New Mexico, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 236
New York, Jewish Patriots, 34-35, 38
New York, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 236-301
Nicholas I, of Russia, 533, 540
Nicholas II, of Russia, 519
Noah, Manuel Mordecai, 26, 35
Noah, Mordecai M., 14, 59, 60
Noah, Samuel, 35-38
Non-Importation Resolutions, Signers of, 13
North Carolina, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 301-305
Obranski, David (medal of honor), 106
Official dispatch of Ambassador White to Secretary of State, Gresham,
527-540
Ohio, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 305-344
Osterman, Rosanna, 440
Pale, the Russian-Jewish, 523, 528, 548, 550
Palmer, John W., referred to, 39
Patriots aided by Hyam Solomon, 17
Peixotto, Hon. Benjamin Franklin, 428, 542
Pennsylvania, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 344-372
People, The Jewish, before the World, 488-522
Pereira, Manuel, 465
Peter the Great, 539
Phillips, Miss Ellen, 440
Phillips, Henry M., 440
Phillips, Jonas, 34
Pinto, Isaac, 452
Polack, Cushman, 41
Porter, General Horace, 437
Powderly, Terrence V., quoted, 511-512
Preble, Rear Admiral George Henry, quoted, 426-427
Pulaski, General, 15, 547
Question, The Jewish, quotation, 512-514
Rabbi, Jacob, 448
Randolph, Edmund, 18 (note)
Reese, Michael, 440
Regular Army, Jews in the United States, 76-80
Religious Liberty, Statue, 65-66
Rhode Island, a List of Jewish Soldiers from, 372
Rosecrans, General, referred to, 7
Rothschild, Baron Edmond de, 549
Rothschild, Baron James de, 534
Rothschild, Baron Nathan de, 534
Roumania's Oppression of the Jews, 542
Rudelson, S. J., referred to, 472
Russia, Instances of foreign Jews who were maltreated in, or expelled
from, 525, 526, 529, 530, 531
Russia's Crime Against the Jews and Civilization, 523-543
Russian Jewish Refugees in America, 544-564
Sachs, Max, Lieutenant, 184
Salomon, Edward S., Brigadier-General, a Sketch, etc., 164-170, 425
Salomon, Haym, 13, 14-26, 39, 43, 87, 439, 547
Salomon, Haym M., 15, 20 (note), 21 (note), 23, 24, 25, 39
Sarfati, Joshua, 453
Schurz, Hon. Carl, quoted, 165, 430-435, 439, 503-505
Scott, General Winfield, 36
Seddon, Mr., 103
Seixas, David G., 71
Seixas, Isaac, 34
Seixas, Moses, 56
Seligman, Jesse, tributes to, 430-439
Seligman, Joseph, 430
Seligman, Professor, 537
Sheftall, Levi, 54
Sheftall, Mordecai, 40-43
Sheftall, Sheftall, 41
Sherman, General, William T., referred to, 6
Sigel, General Franz, 487
Snowberger, Albert Leopold, a sketch, etc., 369
Sola, Rev. Meldola de, 27
Soldiers named in Introduction, 2-5
Solomons, Hon. Adolphus S., 429
South Carolina Jewish Patriots, 40
South Carolina, a List of Jewish Soldiers from, 372-381
Sparks, Jared, 15, 54
Spiegel, Marcus M., Colonel, 340
Stahel, General J., letters by, 99, 486
Stanton, Hon. Edwin M., 167
Statistical, 424
Steinschneider, Dr. M., referred to, 456 (note 34)
Story, Joseph, 64
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, quoted, 499
Straus, Hon. Oscar S., referred to, 450 (note 16)
Sumner, Hon. Charles, 62
Sumner, Professor, 22 (note)
_Sun_, New York, about the Jews, 563-564
Surinam, defense of the Jews in, against the French, in 1689 and 1712,
459
Swift, General Joseph G., 36
Texas, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 384-388
Touro, Judah, 63, 64, 71, 439-440, 534
Ullman, Captain, 371
Unclassified List of Soldiers in Civil War, 410-422
Union Army, Jewish Staff Officers in the, 112-113
United Hebrew Charities, of New York, 560
Vale, Fernando, 447
Valentine, Jacob, Captain, 380-381
Vermont, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 388
Virginia, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 389-394
Vogt, Professor Carl, quoted, 491
Wallace, Mackenzie, 533, 538
War of 1812, Jewish Soldiers in the, 67-72
Washington, President George, 16, 23, 26, 46, 63 Correspondence between
him and Hebrew Citizens, 61-65
Washington Territory, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 394
Watson, Robert G., referred to, 444-445, 446 (note)
Waul, General T. N., letter by, 100-101
Weber, J. B., Chairman of Commission on Immigration, 524, 525, 529
Webster, Daniel, 64
Wertheimer, Edwin, Captain, 299
West Virgina, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 395
Wheaton, Henry, letter by, 17 (note)
White, Andrew D., official dispatch to Secretary of State, Gresham,
527-540
Wisconsin, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 396-409
Wolf, Simon, 8, 11, 20 (note), 22 (note), 66 (note), 89, 90, 99,
428-429; letters to, 486, 487, 542
Wolkonsky, Prince Sergius, 536
Wood, William P., a letter by, 200
Worthington, Colonel W. G., 67 (note)
Wyoming Territory, List of Jewish Soldiers from, 394
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Transcriber's Notes
Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired.
The lists of names have not been changed even when they are not in
lexicographic order.
Hyphen removed: fellow[-]men (pp. 63, 467), land[-]owner (p. 468),
law[-]giver (p. 493), re[-]organized (p. 242), re[-]inforced (P. 37),
Sabbath[-]day (p. 460), Sharp[-]shooters (p. 215).
Hyphen added: co[-]religionists (pp. 445, 446, 454, 536).
Both "battlefield" and "battle-field" appear and have not been changed.
P. 7: abusing the privilige -> abusing the privilege.
P. 13: a succint statement -> a succinct statement.
P. 20fn: nothwithstanding -> notwithstanding.
P. 32: bids fair to be perpetuatad -> bids fair to be perpetuated.
P. 38: April 18, 1871 -> April 18, 1781.
P. 42: Commitee on Claims -> Committee on Claims.
Pp. 45 (twice), 130, 227, 245, 337: In unit designations, 3rd -> 3d.
P. 46: Subsistance and Support -> Subsistence and Support.
Pp. 48, 388: aid-de-camp -> aide-de-camp.
P. 58: throught the events -> throughout the events.
P. 61: generosity ond good breeding -> generosity and good breeding.
P. 63: Levy famliy -> Levy family.
P. 79: 1st Lieutant George J. Newgarden -> 1st Lieutenant George J.
Newgarden.
P. 91: cabable of great speed -> capable of great speed.
P. 92: Confaderate ports -> Confederate ports.
P. 95: especicially as communication -> especially as communication.
P. 95: the registed were required -> the registered were required.
P. 101: atttribute suited to the soldier -> attribute suited to the
soldier.
P. 104: businesss of war -> business of war.
P. 107 (twice): New Hamshire -> New Hampshire.
P. 107: he was addresesd -> he was addressed.
P. 107: Shiloh, Tennesee > Shiloh, Tennessee.
P. 108: apppointed escort -> appointed escort.
P. 115: assigneds to duty -> assigned to duty.
P. 120: 1st Artilery -> 1st Artillery.
P. 122: 2nd Infantyy -> 2nd Infantry.
P. 142: Goldsmith, Geroge -> Goldsmith, George.
P. 143: Goldsmith, Beujamin -> Goldsmith, Benjamin.
P. 147: Cemtery Hill -> Cemetery Hill.
P. 156: Leopold, Wiliam 8th Cavalry -> Leopold, William 8th Cavalry.
P. 164: Major Saloman ultimately became Colonel -> Major Salomon
ultimately became Colonel.
P. 166: Respecfully forwarded -> Respectfully forwarded.
P. 166: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon has won the good opinion ->
Lieutenant Colonel Salomon has won the good opinion.
P. 168: thirteeenth day of March -> thirteenth day of March.
P. 177: 86nd Infantry -> 82nd Infantry.
P. 185: Lilled at Richmond, Kentucky -> Killed at Richmond, Kentucky.
P. 246: Davis, Benjamim -> Davis, Benjamin.
P. 299: Weil, Josfph -> Weil, Joseph.
P. 322: Klein, Franx 82nd Infantry -> Klein, Frank 82nd Infantry.
P. 337: Schwarz, Adodph -> Schwarz, Adolph.
P. 367: Rowland, Adolphus Major 5th Cavarlry -> Rowland, Adolphus Major
5th Cavalry.
P. 373: Murfreesboro, Tennnessee -> Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
P. 374: close of the the war -> close of the war.
P. 386: Gains' farm -> Gaines' farm.
P. 386: 2nd C2valry -> 2nd Cavalry.
P. 424: North Corolina -> North Carolina.
P. 428: Ottowa -> Ottawa.
P. 428: Mr. Pexiotto was selected as Consul -> Mr. Peixotto was
selected as Consul.
P. 429: Cincinnatti -> Cincinnati.
P. 429: Fort Sumtner -> Fort Sumter.
P. 430fn: Eminent Isralites -> Eminent Israelites.
P. 432: He never fargot -> He never forgot.
P. 432: obstrusive flashing -> obtrusive flashing.
P. 436: happy reminisences -> happy reminiscences.
P. 448: chronicle the the timely intervention -> chronicle the timely
intervention.
P. 458: took care to harrass them -> took care to harass them.
P. 459: brave resistence -> brave resistance.
P. 465: afer his above detailed victory -> after his above detailed
victory.
P. 468: parly in command of -> partly in command of.
P. 469: Nassy himsely -> Nassy himself.
P. 473: if his abilities -> of his abilities.
P. 473fn: soon in the orginal -> soon in the original.
P. 479: the goverment defrayed -> the government defrayed.
P. 486fn: liberty and eqality -> liberty and equality.
P. 488: public villifications -> public vilifications.
P. 490: energies of yonr intellect -> energies of your intellect.
P. 491: political enfanchisement -> political enfranchisement.
P. 491: Irael's bosom -> Israel's bosom.
P. 491: Republicans by virture -> Republicans by virtue.
P. 492: family hiearchy -> family hierarchy.
P. 494: Jean-Jaques Rousseau -> Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
P. 495: trom the head of the State -> from the head of the State.
P. 496: administration of jusiice -> administration of justice.
P. 498: If thou afflct -> If thou afflict.
P. 499: persecution aud oppression -> persecution and oppression.
P. 504: class of citizens excells -> class of citizens excels.
P. 505: anti-Semic -> anti-Semitic.
P. 509: ihe glowing affection -> the glowing affection.
P. 511: morality and and sublime virtues -> morality and sublime
virtues.
P. 512: voicc of greed -> voice of greed.
P. 512: Narbornne -> Narbonne.
Pp. 527, 531: St. Petersburgh -> St. Petersburg.
P. 532: instructon in the Talmud -> instruction in the Talmud.
P. 535: wtth the foregoing -> with the foregoing.
P. 538: control of Israelities -> control of Israelites.
P. 539: Great Britian -> Great Britain.
P. 540: representatations by such philanthropists -> representations by
such philanthropists.
P. 541: respeatedly been manifested -> repeatedly been manifested.
P. 541: expicit and minute instructions -> explicit and minute
instructions.
P. 542: forbids any oppresion -> forbids any oppression.
P. 547: Asiastic herdsman -> Asiatic herdsman.
P. 547: decendants of the first -> descendants of the first.
P. 547: preceeding pages -> preceding pages.
P. 551: It would be superflous -> It would be superfluous.
P. 552: make it np -> make it up.
P. 554: Let us for a momemt -> Let us for a moment.
P. 554: pursuaded to study -> persuaded to study.
P. 555: steadly employed -> steadily employed.
P. 557: been fullfilled -> been fulfilled.
P. 560: revelant to our present subject -> relevant to our present
subject.
P. 561: Baron de Hirsh -> Baron de Hirsch.
P. 568: refered to -> referred to.
P. 571: Brevet-Brigidier-General -> Brevet-Brigadier-General.
P. 572: Loyalty, Sketches ef -> Loyalty, Sketches of.
P. 575: named in Introdnction -> named in Introduction.
P. 576: Texas .. 382-283 -> Texas ... 384-388.
Endpaper for "The Dinner Horn": seperate -> separate.
Endpaper for "Around the World": accurracy -> accuracy.
Endpaper for "Obra de Rafael Montoro": lujosamenta -> lujosamente.
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Footnotes [30]-[104] contain extensive quotes in Dutch from H. J.
Koenen. _Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland_. The text reflects the
scan, except for the following corrections that were made on the advice
of native speakers of the language. Nevertheless, additional errors may
remain, either because of errors made by the author in copying from the
source, or because of decisions not to change what may be archaic
spelling and grammar.
[30] dat het den Joden voortan -> dat het den Joden voortaan.
[33] on qui récemment y avaient été attirés -> ou qui récemment y
avaient été attirés.
[39] eigenschappe -> eigenschappen.
[39] ongelookige -> ongelukkige.
[39] de Hollanders onstaan -> de Hollanders ontstaan.
[42] Frankfort o. M. -> Frankfort a. M.
[69] menigvaldige feestdagen -> menigvuldige feestdagen.
[72] hij goedvond de nieuw wereld -> hij goedvond de nieuwe wereld.
[78] p. 294-495 -> p. 294-295.
[78] dat ire opkomende welvaart -> dat die opkomende welvaart.
[78] en trachte de rivier Commawine -> en trachtte de rivier Commawine.
[81] om up hunne -> om op hunne.
[82] dan eenmaal net goed gevolgdan -> dan eenmaal met goed gevolg.
[82] een belankrijken post -> een belangrijken post.
[85] fierlijke -> sierlijke.
[87] standen de Negers -> stonden de Negers.
[87] vermoorden hunnen meester -> en vermoorden hunnen meester.
[87] zeven-een-veer-tig -> zeven-en-veertig.
[87] (three times) Jeder -> Iedere.
[87] elk gewapende Neger -> elke gewapende Neger.
[89, 93] Kuenen -> Koenen.
[89] onvermoeide Israelit -> onvermoeide Israeliet.
[89] viertien krijgssgevangenen -> veertien krijgsgevangenen.
[89] een hij, door gebrek aan de noodige -> en hij, door gebrek aan de
noodige.
[89] neemt op zich om terug de keeren -> neemt op zich om terug te
keeren.
[89] ven deen Raad af te wachten -> van den Raad af te wachten.
[90] en nieuw gevaar -> een nieuw gevaar.
[93] de blanken zich nog stande -> de blanken zich nog staande.
[93] groote dapperheid aan een dag -> groote dapperheid aan den dag.
[93] deze wreede barmhartigkeid -> deze wreede barmhartigheid.
[102] dinhuldig -> inhuldig.
[103] Gezongen door den Erwaarden -> Gezongen door den Eerwaarden.
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