Adolph Proskauer Military person

Adolph Proskauer was one of the comparatively few Jewish officers in the army of the Confederate States of America during the United States Civil War. He rose to the rank of major.Major Adolph Proskauer of Mobile, Alabama was wounded several times. A subordinate officerwrote "I can see him now as he nobly carried himself at Gettysburg, standing coolly and calmlywith a cigar in his mouth at the head of the 12th Alabama amid a perfect rain of bullets, shot andshell. He was the personification of intrepid gallantry and imperturbable courage.

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Adolph Proskauer
Birth dateNovember 11, 1838
Birth place
Possibly from City of Breslau in Lower Silesia Germany (now Wroc%C5%82aw Poland)
Date of deathDecember 13, 1900
Place of death
St. Louis
Resting place
New Mount Sinai Cemetery & Mausoleum (St. Louis Missouri)

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military operations
American Civil War
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Antietam
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of Boonsboro
Battle of Malvern Hill
Battle of Seven Pines
Gettysburg Campaign
military command12th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company C
service start1861

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