Hello, I’m Hans K. Jones, and welcome back to Patriots’ Notebook Radio, the voice of white America.

As the Civil War erupted in the United States, a young Jew by the name of Jacob Elsas was conscripted into the Union Army. The irony is that Elsas had immigrated to America from Germany when he turned 18, in order to avoid being conscripted into the army there.

When he arrived in America young Elsas begged and borrowed until he had enough money for train fare to Ohio. He planned on living with relatives who had already settled in the Cincinnati area. Shortly after arriving in Cincinnati Elsas took advantage of his uncle’s business contacts and was soon able to find employment as a packer. Not satisfied with that job, however, he soon entered the junk trade and began traveling and selling in Kentucky and neighboring states.

By 1864 Elsas had traveled to the growing commercial center of Nashville, which at the time was under federal military occupation. The L&N Railroad had been completed in 1859, virtually securing Nashville’s designation as a regional hub. It only followed to reason that the Union Army would make the city its primary western headquarters for food, supplies, and ordnance. Elsas was drawn to Nashville for this very reason, as he was determined to profit from wartime conditions...read the entire text of broadcast