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A REBEL SOLDIER
Isaac Burgauer
born Nov 1, 1836 Haigerloch, Germany
died July 18, 1863 Hagerstown, Md.
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The minutes book of the Benevolent
Society records that on July 19, 1863 money was collected among the
Jewish families of Hagerstown for the burial of "a rebel soldier". Levi
Stone, a Jewish resident of Hagerstown, provided “horse and carriage”
and took the body to Chambersburg – indeed “a charitable service
at a time when we could hardly get a horse for money.”
The Hebrew inscription makes a point of calling the deceased "a beloved
one": While he was a stranger to those who buried him, he certainly
left behind a bereaved family somewhere.
Isaac Burgauer is the only Confederate soldier known to be buried in a
Jewish cemetery in a Union state.
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