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Abolitionism
Author_Robert N. Rosen
Battle of Seven Pines
Braxton Bragg
Carpetbagger
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Cavalry
Confederate States Army
Confederate States of America
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Fort Sumter
Franklin J. Moses
Infantry
Jews
Joseph E. Johnston
Jr.
Judah P. Benjamin
judaism
Moses Elias Levy
Quartermaster
Slavery
Union Army
Product details
- ISBN 9781570033636
- Weight: 1400g
- Dimensions: 185 x 258mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2000
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A native of Charleston, SC, Rosen (Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the Place and the People During the Civil War) uses his own background and experience to recount the lives of Southern Jews from the 1700s until well after the Civil War. Loyal Southerners, the Jews accepted living in a slaveholding society, and their young men flocked to enlist when war came. The author delves into the lives of a number of prominent individuals and families, among them two U.S. senators, Judah Philip Benjamin of Louisiana and David Levy Yulee of Florida. The experiences of many other enlisted men, officers, nurses, politicians, rabbis, doctors, and businessmen are also chronicled. Rosen also explains why so many Jews chose the South as their home and why they remained loyal to it, arguing that Southern society and the Confederate army and navy may have been more tolerant of Jews than the North.
