b'19(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Carte-de-visite photograph of a Union Cavalryman, with autograph signature on front: Isidore Kastner. On the reverse is photographers imprint: Photographed by S. L. Bergstresser, Army of the Potomac and signed in the same hand as the front: Your friend, I. K. c. 1863. $2000 - $3000 Isidore Kastner of Pennsylvania (1842-95) fought with the 13th Cavalry. He was captured in 1863 and returned to the Union Army in an exchange with the Confederates. He returned to the battleeld and was wounded twice in battles in Virginia and subsequently discharged.Roughly 10,000 American Jews fought in the Civil War, 7,000 on the Union side, and Kastner is presumed to be one of them. See Donald Altschiller, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History (2000) pp. 1070-71.20(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) A coin-silver soup-ladle made bySOLOMON RALPH BIESENTHALof Louisville Kentucky (1829-1903). Engraved Remember Jetta Gerstley. Marked: SRBiesenthal Louisville. Length: 13 inches.Louisville, Kentucky, c. 1858. $1000 - $1500 Solomon Biesenthal (1829-1903) along with his wife Rosalie Samuelson, arrived in America from Poland around 1850. After a sojourn in Cincinnati, Biesenthal settled with his family in Louisville where he owned a silver and jewelry shop on Market Street. In 1860 he founded the Louisville Hebrew Mutual Benet Society and and two years later, Louisvilles Chebrah Bikur Cholim Ukedosho. ForfurtherdetailsconcerningtheKentucky-basedJewishsilversmithSolomonBiesenthalandthis item of silver in particular, see Gary Dean Gardner, Kentuckys Unknown Story of Jewish Silver: Assessment Of A Kentucky Coin Silver Soup Ladle ca. 1858-1860 by Solomon Ralph Biesenthal, Louisville, KY: http://southernfoodandmaterialculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/kentuckys-unknown-story-of-jewish-silver.html.10'