- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Sherman's Field Order No. 15
- Creator:
- Myers, Barton A., 1980-
- Date of Original:
- 2005-09-25
- Subject:
- Sherman's March to the Sea
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Orders, Preparation of (Military science) - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Sherman's Field Order No. 15. 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.
GSE identifier: SS8H5 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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