A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War: Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers, by Marcus M. Spiegel

A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War
Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
By Marcus M. Spiegel
Edited by Jean Powers Soman and Frank L. Byrne University of Nebraska Press: 1995
ISBN: 0803292325

Book 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.

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