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TIL General Order No. 11 (1862) was an order issued by Ulysses S. Grant ordering the expulsion of Jews in his district, comprising areas of TN, MS, and KY as part of a campaign against a black market in Southern cotton, which he thought was being run “mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders.”

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