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On December 20, 1862, three days after Grant's order, Confederate States Army troops led by Major-General Earl Van Dorn raided Holly Springs, preventing the potential expulsion of further Jews. Although delayed by Van Dorn's raid, Grant's order was fully implemented in Paducah, Kentucky , where thirty Jewish families were forcibly expelled from ...
Three weeks into his administration, Grant met with religious leaders and philanthropists to discuss his new program. Grant said he desired to create a "humane and Christianizing policy towards the Indians." The New York Herald said that Grant planned "to make a radical change in the Indian policy of the government."
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 .
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .
In 1862 during the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant issued an order (quickly rescinded by President Abraham Lincoln) of expulsion against Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi which were under his control. (See General Order No. 11) As president in 1869–1877, however, Grant was especially favorable to Jews. [74]
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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]
The first scandal to tar the Grant administration was Black Friday, also known as the Gold Panic, that took place in September 1869, when two aggressive private financiers attempted to corner the gold market in the New York City Gold Room, with blatant disregard to the nation's economic welfare. The scandal involved Treasury Department policy ...