The Daily Beast has a fascinating post about a mostly forgotten moment in American history: the time General Ulysses S. Grant “wrote out an order banishing all Jews throughout his entire command.”
It involves contraband cotton, Grant’s conflict with his own father, and an apocryphal appeal to Abraham Lincoln. But there’s a twist happy ending!
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