My Diary North and South.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1659
Year: 1863
Entry: Russell, William Howard. My Diary North and South. Boston: T. O. H. P. Burnham; New York: O. S. Felt; Toronto: Rollo and Adam, 1863. xxii, 602 p.
Author/Editor: Russell, William Howard
Location: Boston, MA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: My Diary North and South.
Printer/Publisher: T. O. H. P. Burnham
Language: English
Notes: See the May 29, 1861, diary entry (p. 242) concerning the influence of the Jews in New Orleans during the Civil War ("one of the evils which afflicts the Louisianians, they say, is the prepondrance and influence of South Carolinian Jews, and Jews generally ..."). There are remarks about a Jewish-owned, curiosity-filled museum at Niagara Falls on the American side (p. 363); the museum’s unnamed proprietor at this time was Sydney Barnet.