Posted on 03/27/2013 8:26:27 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--snip-- Like their fellow Americans, the Jews of the United States quickly found themselves caught up in the war between the North and the South, and it had a profound influence on them.
As historian Eli N. Evans has written, “For Jews in America, the Civil War was a watershed that involved Jewish soldiers from all over the nation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Interesting article. Thanks!
FTA:
“One day during a Passover,” Korn wrote, “Union soldier Myer Levy of Philadelphia was walking through a captured Virginia town, when he saw a boy sitting on the steps of his house and eating matza. When Levy asked for some, the boy leaped up and ran into the house shouting, ‘Mother, there’s a damn-Yankee Jew outside!’ The boy’s mother came out and invited Levy to return that evening for a Passover meal.””
LOL
The real tragedy is that the South persisted in the maintenance of slavery just when the beginnings of the machine age would have economically wedged it out considerably.
Other than that, succession would have seemed - to me - a more desirable state of affairs.
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