General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of Mississippi of the United States Army, issued “Special Field Orders No. 15” on January 16, 1865, otherwise known as '40 Acres and a Mule.' These military orders issued during the American Civil War led to the confiscation of 400,000 acres of land along the Atlantic […]

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