[Arkinsaw]

This doesnt sound right, the Union wasnt occupying those three states already in 1862 were they? Especially Mississippi I would think. Im sure someone on here knows this and will correct me if im wrong.

This is a true event. There are lots of things people don't know about the Civil War.

Where is the largest Jewish Military Cemetery outside of Israel? The Jewish Confederate Cemetery at Richmond, Virginia. Attorney General/Sec. of War of the Confederacy? Judah P. Benjamin who was Jewish.

The old deal about Grant being drunk all the time was false however.

[gobucks]

Another reason I love FR!! I didn't know this either!!! Thanks! Next time I go through Richmond, I'll take my oldest along - she is nuts about all things Civil War.

[gobucks]

Another reason I love FR!! I didn't know this either!!! Thanks! Next time I go through Richmond, I'll take my oldest along - she is nuts about all things Civil War.

[Conservababe]

Grant drank only when his wife was not at his side, or he was waiting through a dull period of the war.

Many do not realize that Grant and many officers and enlisted men on both sides frequently had their families with them.

[CatoRenasci]

One of my Brother Rats (classmates) at the Virginia Military Institute was a direct descendent of a rabbi who had been Jewish chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia. A number of other Jewish cadets had forebears who had fought for the South, as well as in the Revolutionary War. In those days, Southerners distinguished between 'Yankee Jews' and "Southerners of the Jewish Faith" (as one of my Jewish Brother Rats explained to me).

[Alouette]

Where is the largest only Jewish Military Cemetery outside of Israel?