IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Number of Soldiers Classified According to States.
| Alabama. | 135 |
| Arkansas. | 53 |
| California. | 28 |
| Connecticut. | 17 |
| District of Columbia. | 3 |
| Florida. | 2 |
| Georgia. | 144 |
| Illinois. | 702 |
| Indiana. | 475 |
| Iowa. | 12 |
| Kansas. | 9 |
| Kentucky. | 22 |
| Louisiana. | 224 |
| Maine. | 1 |
| Maryland. | 7 |
| Massachusetts. | 174 |
| Michigan. | 130 |
| Mississippi. | 158 |
| Missouri. | 86 |
| Nevada. | 3 |
| New Hampshire. | 2 |
| New Jersey. | 277 |
| New Mexico. | 2 |
| New York. | 1996 |
| North Carolina | 58 |
| Ohio. | 1004 |
| Pennsylvania. | 527 |
| Rhode Island. | 4 |
| South Carolina. | 182 |
| Tennessee. | 38 |
| Texas. | 103 |
| Vermont. | 1 |
| Virginia. | 119 |
| Washington Territory. | 1 |
| West Virginia. | 7 |
| Wisconsin. | 331 |
| Wyoming Territory. | 1 |
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| 7038 |
JEWISH PATRIOTISM IN CIVIL LIFE.
The foregoing lists of Jewish soldiers in the armies of the Civil War may well be supplemented by a review of Jewish activity in civil walks in connection with that momentous struggle. In the political movements for the abolition of slavery there were not lacking many Jews who took an active and at times a leading part in the moulding of public opinion, and the fact that the influence of these men did not become more widespread may be regarded as almost wholly due to their having been but recent immigrants from foreign lands and therefore comparative strangers in the communities in which they settled. Such men were Michael Heilprin, the scholar and philanthropist whose devotion to liberty had previously been attested by his activity as a member of Kossuth's civil staff during the Hungarian Revolution; Dr. Edward Morwitz, then a writer and afterwards publisher of the "Demokrat," a German newspaper of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Sabato Morais, then and still at present the Rabbi of a Philadelphia congregation. Dr. David Einhorn's ardent advocacy of the abolition of slavery led to his removal from Baltimore; and in New York, Rev. Samuel M. Isaacs, then Rabbi of a congregation of that city and editor of the "Jewish Messenger," took an earnest part in the movement.
In the West, among the pioneers of the Jewish community, are to be named in this connection Dr. James Horwitz, of Cleveland; Rabbi Liebman Adler, then of Detroit; Henry Greenebaum, then a member of the City Council of Chicago; Edward Salomon, afterwards County Clerk of Cook county and subsequently Brigadier-General in the army, and Leopold Mayer and Michael Greenebaum, likewise of Chicago. In an article on the German pioneers of Chicago, published in a late issue in the "Times-Herald" of that city (June 9th, 1895), are printed some interesting reminiscences of ante-bellum times, wherein Mr. Mayer is quoted as follows:
"The fugitive slave law set us at loggerheads with the powers that were. It was sometime in 1853 when a United States Marshal, on the corner of Van Buren and Sherman streets, arrested a poor devil of a negro as a fugitive. A crowd of citizens, led by Michael Greenebaum, liberated the prisoner and on the same evening a big meeting was held to ratify this act. The enthusiasm in this meeting reached its highest pitch when Long John Wentworth entered the hall and publicly declared from the platform that he would be with us in resisting the enforcement of the barbaric law. From that time we slowly but steadily marched up hill. The first official call for a German mass meeting to join the Republican party appeared in the 'Staats Zeitung' signed by George Schneider, Adolph Loeb, Julius Rosenthal, a cigar dealer by the name of Hanson and my humble self."