Virginia sent out another three:
Leopold Levy,
Samson Levy,
Solomon Levy.
Louisiana has also a list of three brothers on her muster rolls:
Eugene H. Levy,
Julius H. Levy,
Joseph C. Levy.
And yet another trio went forth from Alabama:
Mordecai Moses,
Henry C. Moses,
Alfred Moses.
This makes a total of nine families on the Southern side, embracing a membership numbering thirty-five, of whom one was enrolled in the Union army.
The preponderance of such instances in the ranks of the Confederates is due to the fact that the Jews of the Southern States were, in a much larger proportion than those of the North, natives of the soil or residents of long standing. While the Jews were doubtless more numerous at the North than at the South, they were, for the most part, immigrants of a comparatively recent date, and therefore less intensely imbued with the spirit of the conflict.
On the Union side, New York, the nucleus of the Jewish population of this country, naturally furnished the largest quota of Jewish soldiers, and among them were three bands of brothers; one of the families being reinforced by the presence of the father. The roll is as follows: