Adolph Proskauer

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Adolph Proskauer
File:Major Adolph Proskauer.jpg
Born(1838-11-11)November 11, 1838
Possibly from City of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
DiedDecember 13, 1900(1900-12-13) (aged 62)
Place of burial
AllegianceFile:Flag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg Confederate States of America
BranchFile:Battle flag of the Confederate States of America (1-1).svg Confederate States Army
Service years1861–1865
RankFile:Confederate States of America Major.png Major
Unit12th Alabama Infantry Regiment
ConflictsAmerican Civil War

Adolph Proskauer (1838 – 1900) was a Jewish officer in the army of the Confederate States of America during the United States Civil War. He rose to the rank of major.[1][2][3][4]

Major Adolph Proskauer of Mobile, Alabama was wounded several times. A subordinate officer wrote "I can see him now as he nobly carried himself at Gettysburg, standing coolly and calmly with a cigar in his mouth at the head of the 12th Alabama amid a perfect rain of bullets, shot and shell. He was the personification of intrepid gallantry and imperturbable courage.

His nephew, Joseph M. Proskauer, was a prominent New York attorney, judge, and founding partner of the law firm Proskauer Rose.[5]

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