Apr 25 Here and Now When General Grant Expelled the Jews Three weeks before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Orders Number 11. The order expelled Jews as a Class from Grant’s war zone, which included parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Mississippi. Grant believed Jewish residents were smuggling goods from the south. There was active smuggling in […] By Brad Yost Apr 25 Here and Now When General Grant Expelled the Jews Brad Yost