As with so many prickly issues of the Civil War, the controversy between Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews had its roots in the curse of cotton. By the autumn of 1862, the South’s last great cotton crop was in— picked and baled; worth tens of millions, billions in today’s money—and Deep South states such …
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