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 | | Most Jewish Southerners, however, were Ashkenazi immigrants who in the 1840s and 1850s had fled Bavaria, Prussia, Alsace, Hesse, Baden, Swabia, Westphalia, Hungary, Poznan (Posen), and Silesia in Prussian Poland and Russian Poland to America, the fabled land of freedom. |
 | | Thousands were young men who had fled their German fatherlands to avoid serving a tyrannical government in brutal, anti-Semitic armies. |
 | | of Lynchburg, a native of Hurben, Bavaria, in the 11th Virginia; Aaron and Isadore Reinach of Petersburg in the 12th Virginia; and Leopold and Sampson Levy, natives of Altenstadt, Bavaria, in the 1st Virginia Cavalry. |
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