Special Field Order No. 15: Revision history

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11 July 2023

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  • curprev 16:4416:44, 11 July 2023Jb talk contribs 6,033 bytes +6,033 Created page with "<blockquote>On January 16, 1865, Union General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastal land extending about 30 miles inland from the Atlantic and stretching from Charleston, South Carolina 245 miles south to Jacksonville, Florida. The order gave most of the roughly 400,000 acres to newly emancipated slaves in forty-acre sections. Those lands became the basis for the slogan “forty acres and a mule” based o..."