Adolph Proskauer (1838 – 1900) was a Jewish officer in the army of the

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during the

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. He rose to the rank of major.

Major Adolph Proskauer of
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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 was

Joseph M. Proskauer Joseph Meyer Proskauer (6 August 1877 – 10 September 1971) was an American lawyer, judge, philanthropist, and political activist and is the name partner of Proskauer Rose. Biography Proskauer was born in Mobile, Alabama, to a Jewish family in 18 ...

a prominent New York attorney, Judge, and founding partner of the law firm

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Proskauer, Adolph Jewish American military personnel American people of German-Jewish descent Foreign Confederate military personnel Confederate States Army officers Prussian emigrants to the United States Jews from Missouri Jewish Confederates Military personnel from St. Louis 1900 deaths 1838 births