CHAPTER XXVI

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DISTINGUISHED SERVICES OF JEWS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STRUGGLE.

More “brothers in arms” and a larger proportion of officers in the Confederate Army than in that of the North, because most Southern Jews were natives of the country――Some distinguished officers――A gallant private who later became a rabbi――Paucity of Southern records――Generals Knefler, Solomon, Blumenberg, Joachimsen and other officers of high rank in the Union Army――New York ranks first, Ohio second and Illinois third in the number of Jews who went to the front――Two Pennsylvania regiments which started with Jewish colonels――Commodore Uriah P. Levy, the ranking officer of the United States navy at the time of the outbreak of the war, is prevented by age from taking part in it.

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