Basically, some war profiteers were kicked out and some innocent people were inconvenienced. Nobody was killed, nobody was hurt. The order rescinded after 2 weeks.
All in all, is this is "America's worst Anti-Jewish action" then the U.S. has a pretty damn good track record.
Mr. Regenstein & I had a rather acrimonious email argument over this. But what can I say, I am a "Damn Yankee"
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Happy to see that my reference site is getting some use. Mr. Regenstein could have credited my site in his research. But, after all, I am a "Damn Yankee."
This is a joke, right? This is America's biggest anti-Jew moment. Grant was tired of Northern money flowing south to buy cotton and returning as weapons and supplies bought from abroad (I'm not sure what her exact name was nor how she got all of these supplies.)
You are correct, had this war taken place in another country summary executions would have been the order of the day rather than expulsions.
However, there are those who will do or say anything to dispagage the heroes who saved the Union and glorify the Traitors who tried to destroy it rather than address the Evil of Slavery.
So am I. I think I'll just read rather than joining the continuation of the Civil War.
Furthermore, he is a fountain of misinformation. The War Between the States was really fought at Gettysburg, PA, between valiant troops from Maine and some delinquent rebel citizens of Virginia. The rest was just marching about to no great purpose.
I am unaware of other participants and therefore take these Civil War stories cum grano salis as my instructor at Bowdoin, Professor Colonel Chamberlain was wont to say.
That's my take on it. This thread seems to be degenerating, but it's an interesting topic for discussion.
One of my collateral ancestors by marriage, General Robert Treat Paine, was in command of the captured city of New Orleans for a while around the end of the war, but was not the governor mentioned in the article. He also, at one time, led a negro regiment from Massachusetts.