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Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel

Col Marcus M. Spiegel was one of the highest-ranking Jewish officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War

Jean Soman is an author and editor. She was the Interim President of the national, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and was a member of its Board of Directors. In 2017, Jean was on the History Channel’s Documentary, “America Promised Land” (part 1). She co-edited the books, “A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War, Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers” (Univ. of Nebraska Press) and “Your True Marcus, The Civil War Letters of a Jewish Colonel” (Kent State University Press).