[Nachum]

Jews fought and died on both sides in the civil war.

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 -- which saw brother against brother as well as Jew against Jew -- there were 150,000 Jews in the United States. Three thousand fought on the side of the Confederacy and 6,700 for the Union.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/text/jews_text.html

[Alouette]