22 feb 1865 anni - Special Field Order Number 15

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In January 1865, in an effort to address the issues caused by the growing numbers of homeless ex-slaves, Sherman issued Special Field Order Number 15, a temporary plan granting each freed family 40 acres of land on the islands and coastal region of Georgia. The Union Army also donated some of its mules, unneeded for battle purposes, to the former enslaved people. Many called this the “40 acres and a mule”

However, as one of the first acts of Reconstruction, Johnson ordered all the land to be returned to its previous owners in the summer of 1865. This left thousands ex-slaves homeless again and led many into sharecropping.

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