William T. Sherman

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William T. Sherman issued Field Order No. 15 in January 1865, calling for the redistribution of confiscated Southern land to freedmen in forty-acre plots. The order was rescinded later that same year, and much of the land was returned to the original white owners.

From The History of the State of Georgia, by I. W. Avery

William T. Sherman

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