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75For the regulations governing sutlers, see The War of the Rebellion, series 3, volume 1: 938–940. For contemporary descriptions of (and complaints about) sutlers, see Styple, ed., Writing and Fighting the Civil War, 50–51, 69–70, 308, 319, 349. 76For other examples of nepotism, see Lord, Civil War Sutlers, 68; see also pages 23–26; Edward Bacon, Among the Cotton Thieves (Detroit: The Free Press Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1867), 115–116. 77Simon Wolf listed more than thirty Jewish quartermasters during the war; the most important was Abraham C. Myers, the quartermaster general of the Confederacy. On Myers, see Wilson, Confederate Industry, 3–41. 78Jean Powers and Frank L. Byrne, A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War: Marcus Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), 47. 79Ibid., 209, 230, 249. Quote on 240. 80Ibid., 252–254. 81Ibid., 275, 315, 319, 339. Quote on 297. 82For example, in the first year of the war, the three Spiegelberg brothers sold $19,041.09 of goods on credit in New Mexico to members of the state militia. Delo, Peddlers and Post Traders, 118–119. 83Lord, Civil War Sutlers, 68–69. This was a frequent complaint among soldiers. See Styple, ed., Writing and Fighting the Civil War, 56, 69–70, 116, 137, 163. 84A Color Guard writing from Camp Near Falmouth, VA., 3 February 1863, quoted in Styple, ed., Writing and Fighting the Civil War, 163. 85For examples of complaints about sutlers’ wares, see Styple, ed., Writing and Fighting the Civil War, 250. 86Bunker and Appel, “‘Shoddy,’” 57–59. 87For examples see Military History and Reminiscences of the Thirteenth Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War in the United States 1861–1865 (Chicago: Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association, 1892), 223–229; Alan S. Brown, ed., A Soldier’s Life: The Civil War Experiences of Ben C. Johnson (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, 1962), 60–62; W.L. Curry, Four Years in the Saddle: History of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (Columbus: Champlin Printing Co., 1898), 318–319; W.A. Neal, An Illustrated History of the Missouri Engineer and the 25th Infantry (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1889), 21–22; Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard, eds., A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 75; Thomas H. Parker, History of the 51st Regiment of P.V. and V.V. (Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1869), 260–261; Rudolf Glanz, The Jew in Early American Wit and Graphic Humor (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1973), 72. 88See, for example, House of Representatives Executive Document 23: Trial of Henry Wirz (Washington, DC, 1868), 598. 89Lord, Civil War Sutlers, 30–33. 90Report of the Secretary of War, December 5, 1863: 43–44. 91John Y. Simon, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 7: December 9, 1862–March 31, 1863 (1979), 53. 92Richard B. MacCaslin, A Soldier’s Letters to Charming Nellie (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008), 179–182, 312. 93Elliott Ashkenazi, ed., The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans 1861–1862 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 28. 94Ibid., 156. 95 Ibid., 188, 210–211. 110 • American Jewish Archives Journal
96 Ibid., 80, 246–247, 261, 275, 316, 417, 440. For another example of a New Orleans Jew working as a sutler for the Confederacy see Mary Kwas, “Two Generations of the Abraham and Block Family: Internal Migration, Economics, Family, and the Jewish Frontier,” Southern Jewish History, 12 (2009): 89. 97 This migration is best described by Anton Hieke, “Some Among the Few: The German Jewish Immigrants of Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas,” doctoral dissertation (Martin- Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2011). 98 See Naomi W. Cohen, “Antisemitism in the Gilded Age: The Jewish View,” Jewish Social Studies (Summer/Fall 1989): 187–189. Beyond the Battlefield: Reevaluating the Legacy of the Civil War for American Jews • 111
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ARTICLES Upheaval, Innovation, and
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Who is Israel? Yankees, Confederate
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appealing to homeland and memory.
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