Adam D. Mendelsohn is associate professor of history and director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race and coeditor of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History.
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What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln's armies? The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of ethnicities, religions, and identities. Almost one Union soldier in four was born abroad, and natives... SEE MORE