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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 .
As a result, Grant issued his notorious General Order No. 11 on December 17, expelling all Jews who he believed were engaged in trade in his department, including their families. When protests erupted from Jews and non-Jews alike, President Lincoln rescinded the order on January 4, 1863; however, the episode tarnished Grant's reputation.
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 ...
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 The order was quickly rescinded by President Lincoln.
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.
The law allowed slaves to enlist, but only with the consent of their slave masters. The legislation was then promulgated into military policy by Davis in General Order No. 14 on March 23, 1865. [44] The war ended less than six weeks later, and there is no record of any black unit being accepted into the Confederate army or seeing combat. [71]