Jonathan D. Sarna – Buckeye Muse

“Faithful to our God and Our Cause”: Ohio Soldiers Celebrate Passover, 1862

By buckeyemuse | April 14, 2017 |

On a spring night in West Virginia, twenty Union soldiers gathered in a log hut. Before them were cooked lamb and chicken, eggs, barrels of cider, strands of some bitter herb and stacks of matzos, the unleavened flatbread of Jewish tradition. These twenty men were Jewish soldiers of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry gathered together…

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