Served with a Texas cavalry unit of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army.
(In the photo he is identified as 'Jacob Samuel', but the accompanying article identifies him as 'Jacob Samuels')
Source: "Overlooked no longer - Research reveals military service of 4 Texas Jews", The Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2005.
"Jacob Samuels, a Polish immigrant and a merchant,was one of the first 2 Jewish pioneers to settle in Fort Worth, arriving in the mid-to-late 1850s. When the Civil War began in 1862, he enlisted in a cavalry unit mustered on Main Street, bringing along his horse, valued at $225. By 1864, Samuels was sidelined with dysentery and reassigned to Hempstead, Texas, as a harnessmaker. A Confederate battle flag is chiseled on the front of his granite tombstone and a Masonic emblem on the back. He was a member of Congregation Ahavath Sholom." - Hollace_Weiner
(In the photo he is identified as 'Jacob Samuel', but the accompanying article identifies him as 'Jacob Samuels')
Source: "Overlooked no longer - Research reveals military service of 4 Texas Jews", The Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2005.
"Jacob Samuels, a Polish immigrant and a merchant,was one of the first 2 Jewish pioneers to settle in Fort Worth, arriving in the mid-to-late 1850s. When the Civil War began in 1862, he enlisted in a cavalry unit mustered on Main Street, bringing along his horse, valued at $225. By 1864, Samuels was sidelined with dysentery and reassigned to Hempstead, Texas, as a harnessmaker. A Confederate battle flag is chiseled on the front of his granite tombstone and a Masonic emblem on the back. He was a member of Congregation Ahavath Sholom." - Hollace_Weiner
Served with a Texas cavalry unit of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army.
(In the photo he is identified as 'Jacob Samuel', but the accompanying article identifies him as 'Jacob Samuels')
Source: "Overlooked no longer - Research reveals military service of 4 Texas Jews", The Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2005.
"Jacob Samuels, a Polish immigrant and a merchant,was one of the first 2 Jewish pioneers to settle in Fort Worth, arriving in the mid-to-late 1850s. When the Civil War began in 1862, he enlisted in a cavalry unit mustered on Main Street, bringing along his horse, valued at $225. By 1864, Samuels was sidelined with dysentery and reassigned to Hempstead, Texas, as a harnessmaker. A Confederate battle flag is chiseled on the front of his granite tombstone and a Masonic emblem on the back. He was a member of Congregation Ahavath Sholom." - Hollace_Weiner
(In the photo he is identified as 'Jacob Samuel', but the accompanying article identifies him as 'Jacob Samuels')
Source: "Overlooked no longer - Research reveals military service of 4 Texas Jews", The Dallas Morning News, November 13, 2005.
"Jacob Samuels, a Polish immigrant and a merchant,was one of the first 2 Jewish pioneers to settle in Fort Worth, arriving in the mid-to-late 1850s. When the Civil War began in 1862, he enlisted in a cavalry unit mustered on Main Street, bringing along his horse, valued at $225. By 1864, Samuels was sidelined with dysentery and reassigned to Hempstead, Texas, as a harnessmaker. A Confederate battle flag is chiseled on the front of his granite tombstone and a Masonic emblem on the back. He was a member of Congregation Ahavath Sholom." - Hollace_Weiner
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