Jewish Confederates
"(...) General Robert E. Lee had surrendered about 3 weeks earlier, and the Confederate government's last official meeting was held in Washington, Georgia (Wilkes County), with the final order of the government being given to my great great uncle, Major Raphael Moses, from Columbus, Georgia, who was General James Longstreet's chief commissary officer.
Moses was given possession of the Confederacy's last supply of gold and silver bullion, and was ordered to deliver it to help the thousands of defeated rebel soldiers straggling home, many of them shoeless, hungry, sick, exhausted, in tattered uniforms, in desperate need of help.
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He knew well and wrote in his memoirs about General Robert E. Lee (whom he was with at Gettysburg) and other major Confederate figures. He is mentioned very favorably in several important books on the War, including the authoritative Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, who called Moses "...the best commissary officer of like rank in the Confederate service."
As Longstreet's commissary, he was responsible for supplying and feeding up to 54,000 troops. General Lee had forbidden him from entering private homes in search of supplies in raids into Union territory (such as the incursions into Pennsylvania), even when food and other provisions were in painfully short supply. The contrast is striking between the humane Confederate policies and those of the North, wherein Union generals Sherman, Grant and Sheridan regularly burned and looted homes, farms, courthouses, churches, libraries, and entire cities full of civilians, such as Atlanta and Columbia.(...)"
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