General Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews: Three Newspapers Accounts: The New York Herald, 5 January 1863 The New York Tribune, 5 January 1863 The New York Times, 2 September 1868

Three broadsheet newspapers (22 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.; 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.; 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.) NY Herald and NY Tribune, light marginal browning; some corners rounded; light wear at edges. NY Times with a few small marginal tears at the vertical fold.

Jonathan D. Sarna, When General Grant Expelled the Jews , 2012

In what is regarded as one of the most blatant anti-Semitic actions of the nineteenth century, General Ulysses S. Grant issued Order No. 11 on December 11, 1862 which expelled all Jews from the administrative area of Tennessee which included the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Grant's Order was in response to allegations that Jews were the main black market traders in Southern cotton. Jews were given only 24 hours to leave their homes as a result of the Order. Efforts to overturn Grant’s order began immediately, with both Jews and non-Jews appealing to President Abraham Lincoln and urging that Grant's decree be rescinded. Public rallies protesting the expulsion were held in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville.

The Order "Expelling the Jews from Paducah, Kentucky" was published on the front page of the New York Herald on January 5, 1863.

The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, also department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order by post commanders. They will see that all this class of people are furnished with passes and required to leave, and anyone returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from these headquarters. No passes will be given these people to visit headquarters for the purpose of making personal application for trade permits.

On the same day, the New York Tribune described the events leading to Lincoln's revocation:

Deputations of Jews began arriving here (Washington, D. C) yesterday to solicit the President to countermand or modify the order of Gen. Grant to exclude the Israelites from his lines. The operation of it upon families or merchants long established in regular business proved exceedingly oppressive and produced great excitement in every city in the West. On the application last night of Mr. Kaskel, one of the expelled Jewish citizens sustained by Representative (John A,) Gurley of Ohio, the President instructed Gen. Hallek to countermand the order imperatively. Such countermand was sent West this morning by telegraph.

Despite the anti-Semitic cloud that attached to General Grant stemming from his infamous “Order No. 11,” certain New York City Jews supported his presidential candidacy. A front page item appeared in the New York Times on September 2, 1868, in the midst of that year’s presidential race, reported the formation of the "Hebrew Grant and Colfax Campaign Club," the "first Jewish political club organized in this country." This announcement indirectly supported Grant's charge of treasonous Jewish traders which precipitated his expulsion order and brought to light the sharp division within the American Jewish community concerning Grant. "Hebrews of this city, as a body, have no affinity with traitors, smugglers or repudiators. The Club will endeavor to remove the prejudice against Gen. Grant still lingering in the minds of a few of their race on account of his old order." In addition, this new club would seek to counter the influence of a Jewish political club in St. Louis (see The Union Democrat, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 30, 1868) which made Gen. Grant's "anti-Hebrew army order a leading feature of its opposition to him."