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General Order No. 11 was a controversial Union Army order issued by Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. The order expelled all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee , Mississippi , and Kentucky .
In 1862, Union General Ulysses Grant issued his infamous General Order No. 11, ordering the expulsion of all Jews "as a class" from those states under his jurisdiction: Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Major Raphael J. Moses, a Georgia businessman and later a state representative, before the war was commissary officer of Georgia.
The raids delayed implementation of Grant's General Orders No. 11, saving many Jews from possible expulsion. It took 11 days for the order to reach Paducah, Kentucky, after which local Jewish leaders appealed directly to President Abraham Lincoln. At Lincoln's insistence, General-in-Chief Henry Halleck ordered Grant to revoke General Order No ...
General Order No. 11. Headquarters District of the Border, Kansas City, August 25, 1863. 1. All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included in this district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mills, Pleasant Hill, and Harrisonville, and except those in that part of Kaw Township, Jackson County ...
General Order No. 11 may refer to: General Order No. 11 (1862), General Ulysses S. Grant's order during the American Civil War that all Jews in his district be expelled. General Order No. 11 (1863), Brigadier General Ewing's order that civilians living in several counties of Missouri be expelled and their lands burned.
[27] [28] The Department of the Navy made an official press release of a copy of the 17th CB's letter on 28 November 1944. [29] It would take over 50 years and a presidential order before the U.S. Army reviewed their records in order to award any Medals of Honor to black soldiers. This war marked the end of segregation in the U.S. military.
Jacob Frankel, first official Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Armed Forces; Joshua L. Goldberg, first rabbi to serve as a navy chaplain in WWII [9] David L. Goldfein, General USAF, Chief of Staff of United States Air Force July 2016 – August 2020 [10] Alexander D. Goode, rabbi and a lieutenant in the United States Army.
Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was an American diplomat and newspaper editor from the 1880s until his death, who managed The News & Observer in Raleigh, at the time North Carolina's largest circulation newspaper, for decades.