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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 .
Late December, Sullivan received General Grant's General Order #11, December 17, 1862, ordering the expulsion of all Jews in his military district. Sullivan refused to execute the order according to Rabbi Isaac Mayer. "He thought he was an officer of the army and not of a church." [3] Four days later, Sullivan was forced to comply. Abraham ...
Robert A. Taylor, a professor of history at Florida International University, praised the book as "a significant contribution to the literature of the Civil War South and American Jewish history." [3] He also noted that the Jewish culture of the Antebellum South was mostly gone after the war, as new Jewish immigrants distanced themselves from ...
One early US governmental incident of anti-Jewish action came during the American Civil War, when General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11 (1862) to expel Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi then under his control. The order was quickly rescinded by President Lincoln.
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America is an American Jewish veterans' organization, and the oldest veterans group in the United States. It has an estimated 37,000 members. [91] The Jewish War Veterans were established in 1896. [91] The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. [92] [93]
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 ...
Two of Grant's biographers, Ron Chernow, Grant (2017) and Jean Edward Smith, Grant (2001), have credited Rawlins's support of Jewish people during the Civil War. Rawlins strongly objected to Grant's offensive General Order No. 11, which expelled Jewish families from Grant's Union military district. [39] [40]
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.