Today in history – 3 Sh'vat – 21/1

President Lincoln Overrides Grant’s Expulsion of Jews

Segula Editorial

January 21 1863 - 1 Shevat 5623 Union General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War, explaining why he’d rescinded Grant’s Order 11 banning Jews from the area under his command....