Joseph Spiegel, (USA)

Joseph Spiegel (born 1840) is the founder of the Spiegel catalog, Civil War veteran, and the younger brother of Union Army Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel.

Joseph immigrated to the United States via France in September 1848 with his family.

Joseph Spiegel worked as an apprentice in several retail stores in New York until 1862 and in 1863, enlisted in the 120th Ohio Volunteers where he served in General Ulysses S. Grant’s army in Louisiana where he witnessed his brother’s death in battle and was later captured and sent to the prisoner of war camp at Fort Camp, Texas, where he remained until May 1865.