Question

According to Special Field Orders No. 15, what should each newly freed black family receive?

Answer 1

Answer:

William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15. It set aside land along the Southeast coast so that "each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground." That plan later became known by a signature phrase: "40 acres and a mule.

Answer 2

The order redistributed the roughly 400,000 acres of land to newly freed Black families in forty-acre segments. 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.