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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 .
Believing Jewish merchants had used his father and were also playing a large role in the widespread cotton speculation, he issued General Order No. 11 from his Headquarters in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on December 17, 1862. Because of the generalized wording of the order allegations of antisemitism were soon levied at Grant.
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 ...
Forrest and his command, 1,800 men and four cannon, [1] left Columbia, Tennessee on December 10 or 11, 1862, under orders from General Braxton Bragg.They were headed into West Tennessee, facing an area of well-entrenched enemies with ten times their strength in armaments.
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.
During the Vicksburg Campaign, on December 17, 1862, Grant issued General Order No. 11 expelling Jews, as a class, from Grant's military district. Grant was upset over an illegal cotton trade that he believed funded the Confederate Army.
Special Order 191 (series 1862), also known as the "Lost Dispatch" and the "Lost Order", was a general movement order issued by Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
Ewing was offered surrender terms, but declined, at least partially because he feared execution by Price's men as revenge for his issuance of General Order 11 the previous year, which had deported civilians from four Missouri counties. [10] Confederate artillery then opened fire on Wilson's men at Pilot Knob, who withdrew into the fort.