General Orders No. 11 gave Jewish people just 24 hours to leave their homes and lives behind.
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Right. I am a U.S. Grant historian of sorts. I have read 4 books on him and have his Autobiography. That story was about Jewish men (the article says they were not all Jews, but the truth is, almost all of the ones around Vicksburg were) smuggling cotton right before and during the siege of Vicksburg. from the article:
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General Ulysses S. Grant, one of the Union Army’s most influential officials, was infuriated by the
cotton smuggling that damaged the Union’s ability to squeeze the South economically. In his eyes, the perpetrators were all Jews. This wasn’t borne out by evidence—though Jewish people were active as peddlers, merchants and traders, and some undoubtedly made money speculating on cotton, they did not make up the bulk of the black marketeers.
In August 1862, as Grant was preparing the Union Army to take Vicksburg, he
commanded his men to examine the baggage of all speculators, giving “special attention” to Jews. In November, he
told his subordinates to refuse to let Jews receive permits to travel south of Jackson, Mississippi or travel southward on the railroad.
For Grant, prejudice against Jews mingled with personal animosity. He began his crackdown after discovering a Jewish family’s involvement in a scheme to help use his father’s name to get a legal cotton trading permit in Cincinnati.
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Lincoln quickly rescinded the order, and Grant saw his mistake, but he said later that he would have done it again to win the war.
