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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/grant-expels-the-jews-from-his-department
On December 17, 1862, Union General Ulysses S. Grant lashes out at
Jewish cotton speculators, who he believed were the driving force
behind the black market for cotton. Grant issued an order expelling
all Jewish people from his military district, which encompassed parts
of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.
At the time, Grant was trying to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, the
last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. Grant’s
army now effectively controlled much territory in western Tennessee,
northern Mississippi, and parts of Kentucky and Arkansas. Grant had to
deal with numerous speculators who followed his army in search of
cotton. Cotton supplies were very short in the North, and these
speculators could buy bales in the captured territories and sell it
quickly for a good profit. In December 1862, Grant’s father came to
visit him along with friends from Ohio. Grant soon realized that the
friends, who were Jewish, were speculators hoping to gain access to
captured cotton. Grant was furious and fired off his notorious Order
No. 11: “The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade
established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are
hereby expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from
receipt of this order.”
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