Not sure if anyone has done some digs on this bit of history yet, but I found it interesting due to some numbers:

General Order No. 11 was a controversial order issued by Union Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862 during the Vicksburg Campaign, that took place during the American Civil War. The order expelled of all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce Union military corruption, and stop an illicit trade of Southern cotton, which Grant thought was being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders."[1] In the war zone, the United States licensed traders through the Army, which created a market for unlicensed ones. Union military commanders in the South were responsible for administering the trade licenses and trying to control the black market in Southern cotton, as well as for conducting the war.