Auction 92 · Lot 165
Two Morning reports, signed, by Lt. Col. Simon Levy.
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
printer
July 21st & 25th
Place
Camp Folly and James Island, SC
Publication
1863
Description
Printed with manuscript entries.
summary
Simon Levy was commander during the Civil War of the Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer Infantry. The reports here provide statistics of troop strength, numbers and availability.
Simon Wolf, in his “In the American Jew as Soldier and Patriot” (PAJHS, no. 3, 1895, p. 24) records that Simon Levy’s three sons, Benjamin, Alfred, and Ferdinand, also enlisted and were all officers in the Union Army.