Language:
English
Pages:
25
,
photocopy of translated book.
Year of publication:
1864
Keywords:
Zehden family.
;
United States.
;
Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies.
;
Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862.
;
New York (N.Y.)
;
Philadelphia (Pa.)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 19th century.
;
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
;
Participation, Jewish.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The publication includes letters by David Zehden and L. J. Leberman, member of the Jewish congregation in Philadelphia. In his first letters after his arrival in New York in May of 1861, David Zehden expresses increased despair about his financial situation. At the time shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, New York experienced turmoil and many businesses went bankrupt. David decided to join the army and was assigned to the German Rangers (German border guards) of Colonel Paul Frank. Description of the hard military life with constant drills and primitive sleeping conditions. David however expresses satisfaction with his new profession and illustrates successful encounters with their opponents. At the Battle of Fair Oaks on June 2nd 1862 David Zehden got wounded and lost one foot by amputation. He passed away a month later due to nerve fever in a hospital in Philadelphia.
Abstract:
The second part of the publication includes an account of Colonel Paul Frank about the Battle of Fair Oaks and letters by L. J. Leberman, a member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, who cared for the wounded David Zehden during his stay at the hospital and organized the funeral according to Jewish rites.
Note:
English
URL:
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