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Jacob Osorio De Castro was a Private in Company A, 1st Regiment Mobile Volunteers, Alabama (born Curacao, Dutch West Indies, approx. 1829, died 1894).
He was a Sephardic Jew and an ardent supporter of the Confederacy. He arrived in the U.S in 1859 and settled with his wife in New Orleans.
His only son, which he named David Jefferson De Castro was born in New Orleans in November 1861.
Jacob joined Company I, Orleans Guard Regiment, Louisiana Militia, where he served as a Private, until the fall of the city. He blamed the death of his infant son in 1862 and his daughter Clara De Castro in 1863, on the Union occupation. He refused to sign the Union Oath of Allegiance and evacuated to Mobile, Alabama.
He was the son of David de Jacob y Gomez De Castro (born Curacao, Dutch West Indies 1799, died June 24, 1841) and Gracia de Moises Aboab Osorio y Fereira (died January 19, 1869).
Jacob Osorio De Castro later settled in Savannah, Georgia, where he is buried. Jacob was married Hannah Hoheb De Sola (born April 11, 1831, in St. Croix, Danish Virgin Islands, died April 15, 1897), daughter of Isaac Haim De Sola and Zipporah Hoheb.
Jacobs’ brother Isaac Osorio De Castro (born 1838, Curacao, died August 15, 1905, New Orleans, LA) served as a Private in Company A, 7th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry and is buried in New Orleans.
Fuente: Periódico La Costa Latina
