John Malveaux: Jan 16, 2015 is 150th Anniversary of General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)

General William T. Sherman

(BlackPast.org Public Domain)

John Malveaux of 

www.MusicUNTOLD.com 

writes:

Please see http://www.blackpast.org/primary/special-field-orders-no-15

Thanks
John

BlackPast.org  [Excerpt from Introduction to Order]

On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. 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 on the belief that ex-slaves 

throughout the old Confederacy would be given the 

confiscated lands of former plantation owners.

On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. 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 on the belief that ex-slaves throughout the old Confederacy would be given the confiscated lands of former plantation owners. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/primary/special-field-orders-no-15#sthash.63WbgHZf.dpuf

On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. 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 on the belief that ex-slaves throughout the old Confederacy would be given the confiscated lands of former plantation owners. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/primary/special-field-orders-no-15#sthash.63WbgHZf.dpuf

On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. 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 on the belief that ex-slaves throughout the old Confederacy would be given the confiscated lands of former plantation owners. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/primary/special-field-orders-no-15#sthash.63WbgHZf.dpuf