[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

December 17

1862. US General Ulysses S. Grant issues the infamous General Order No 11, expelling all Jews from his military districts, which were then comprised of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. The order was predicated on an effort to stop a black market around cotton smuggling, which was used to financially support the South, and which Grant believed was mostly being carried out by those of Jewish origin. President Lincoln would soon revoke the order, and Grant would claim (dubiously) that it had been drafted by a subordinate and that he has signed it without reading it.

Wow. That's news to me.