Jean Soman - Author
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| About Jean Soman At an early age, author, Jean Soman became intrigued by the Civil War letters of her great-great grandfather, Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel. She remembers the old black leather album containing these historic letters perched high on a shelf in her mother's closet. During her junior year in college, Ms. Soman, a history major, wrote a paper about her heroic ancestor for a course on the Civil War. After graduation, she continued for more than a decade, researching the life of Marcus Spiegel. She wrote a manuscript that included most of Spiegel's letters. For another four years, Jean Soman worked with Civil War historian Frank L. Byrne on a book about Marcus Spiegel. In 1985, the book was published by Kent State University Press, titled, Your True Marcus, the Civil War Letters of a Jewish Colonel. It was republished in 1995, by the University of Nebraska Press, titled, A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War. |
