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WHILE SERVING WITH CONFEDERATE ARMY DURING THE CIV

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After service with the "Richmond Light Infantry Blues" during war he became an attorney in Virginia ultimately and elected to the VA. "House of Delegates" and later Virginia State Senate, 1881 WILLIAM LOVENSTEIN. Single page (8 x 10) penned letter in his hand with full signature from Richmond, Sept. 5, 1866 to personal friend J. Burgauer: "I left Phila. without seeing Mr. Leeser." Thanking friend, he asked him for a "small favor…please get for me a Prayer Book for each New Year and Day of Atonement with English translations according to the German form…plain, bound in black or brown, also one Common Prayer Book, all Hebrew and one German almanac…send by express with bill." Four very small minor ink smears. Exc. WITH photostats from "Richmond Jewry 1769-1976" by Berman (1979) with much detail about Lovenstein, his military service and important civilian life in politics and law

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