As President, Lincoln took some bold actions on behalf of Jews.
In 1862, he approved legislation creating the first Jewish
military chaplains, to serve the nearly 7,000 Jews in the
Union Army. He also appointed an Orthodox Jew as a quartermaster,
noting that “we have not yet appointed a Hebrew.” (Eventually,
some 50 Jews would fill that capacity.) When Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant issued his General Orders No. 11 in 1862, barring
Jews “as a class” from all territories under his control because
he thought they were smuggling cotton, Lincoln quickly rescinded
it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/arts/ ... .html?_r=1
Southerners, no Dixie flag-waving from you, either:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jso ... jamin.html
Blame Lincoln
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