United States, 39.76, -98.51820/1891William 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 The order was rescinded later that same year, and much of the land was returned to the original white owners.Photograph of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. Shown from the waist up, he wears his Union military uniform. He holds his arms to his side and faces left.On January 16, 1865, Union general William T. Sherman issued his Special Field Order No. 15, which confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's Sea Islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast. The order redistributed the roughly 400,000 acres of land to newly freed black families in forty-acre segments.image/jpegAvery, I. W. The History of the State of Georgia from 1850 to 1881. New York: Brown & Derby, 1881.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaUnited States. Army--OfficersSherman's March to the SeaMilitary uniformsUnited States. Army--UniformsGenerals--United StatesUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891William T. ShermanStillImage