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Lt. Col. Leopold C. Newman (1839-1863): a NY Jewish war hero
Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day for the custom of cleaning the graves of Civil War soldiers, but the location of a New York Jewish Civil War hero’s grave is uncertain. In 1861 22 year old Leopold Charles Newman, a Columbia University alumnus who wrote poetry and fiction and read French and German literature, was […]
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