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A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War

Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers

Marcus M. Spiegel

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 12/2013
Pages: 353
Subject: History
eBook ISBN: 9780803293755

DESCRIPTION

Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in May 1864. These letters to Caroline, his wife, reveal the traumatizing experience of a soldier and the constant concern of a husband and father.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jean Powers Soman is a great-great-granddaughter of Marcus Spiegel. Her coeditor, Frank L. Byrne, is a professor of history at Kent State University and the editor of several books, including Haskell of Gettysburg: His Life and Civil War Papers.

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