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Special Field Orders No. 15
Gen. William T. Sherman set aside coastal land from South Carolina to Florida for freed families, in plots of up to 40 acres.
- 1Issued January 16, 1865.
- 2About 40,000 freed people were settled on roughly 400,000 acres.
- 3President Andrew Johnson reversed the order later that year, returning most land to former Confederates.
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