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Brig. General Degataga "Stand" Watie

{He was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army during the War Of Northern Aggression. He commanded the American Indian cavalry made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole.}

Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Cadet Sergeant Major {VMI Cadet that fought for the Confederacy}

NOTE: Here are just a few notable Confederates of the Jewish faith in addition to Moses Jacob Ezekiel .

Abraham Myers was a West Point graduate and classmate of Robert E. Lee. Myers served as Quartermaster General and before the war, fought Indians in Florida. The city of Fort Myers was named after him.

Major Adolph Proskauer of Mobile, Alabama was wounded several times. A subordinate officer wrote "I can see him now as he nobly carried himself at Gettysburg, standing coolly and calmly with a cigar in his mouth at the head of the 12th Alabama amid a perfect rain of bullets, shot and shell. He was the personification of intrepid gallantry and imperturbable courage."

In North Carolina, 6 Cohen brothers fought in the 40th Infantry.

The 1st Confederate of Jewish faith was killed in the war was Albert Lurie Moses of Charlotte, NC.

All-Jewish companies reported to the fray from Macon and Savannah, Georgia.

In Louisiana, 3 Jews reached the rank of Colonel. They were S. M. Hymans, Edwin Kuncheedt and Ira Moses.

Moses Jacob Ezekiel of Richmond, fought in New Market with his fellow cadets from VMI. He became a noted sculpture. His mother, Catherine Ezekiel was to have said, "she would not tolerate a son who declined to fight for the Confederacy".

Ezekiel wrote in his memoirs "we were not fighting for the perpetuation of slavery, but for the principles of States Rights and Free Trade, and in defense of our homes which were being ruthlessly invaded."

In tribute to Ezekiel it was written, "The eye that saw is closed, the hand that executed is still, the soldier lad who fought so well was knighted and landed in foreign land, but dying, his last request was that he might rest amoung his old Comrades in Arlington Cemetery."

Simon Baruch, a Prussian immigrant, settled in Camden, SC. He received his degree from Medical College of Virginia and entered the war as a physician in the 3rd SC Battalion. He was at the Battle of Second Manassas. He became the Surgeon General of the Confederacy.

The most famous Southern Jew of that era was Judah Benjamin. He was educated in law at Yale. He was the first Jewish US Senator and declined a seat on the Supreme Court. He also declined an offer to be Ambassador to Spain. And the FIRST and ONLY Jew to have his portrait on "American" currency Southern American Currency {C.S.A.}

Judah Benjamin served President Davis and the Confederacy in 3 positions, Attorney General, Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

After the war, he was unable to resettle in America. He settled in England, where he became a notable lawyer. He also wrote legal text while a lawyer in England.

Why do the politically correct (PC) want to destroy the history of a people just because they wanted to save their homeland from an invading army and a government gone wrong?

Not only the Scottish / Irish people have been fighting many lifetimes for freedom, but also people of the Jewish faith have done the same, and on American soil too.

Notes:

Jewish Virtual Library
Jews in The Civil War
www.jewish-history.com

BLack Southerners in the Confederate Army

These Southern Gentlemen all served with honor as Soldiers in battle with the Confederate Army, as well did Mr. Jim Lewis personal cook for General Jackson

Mr. Jeff Shields

Mr. Charles Hicks

Mr. Bill Yopp

For more on Black Confederates try this web site:http://www.southernpartysw.tripod.com/southernpartiesofthesouthwestssecondsite/id4.html

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/blackcs.htm

General Nathan Bedford Forrest

General John Gregg
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