General William T.Sherman's Special Field Order 15

question 82

Multiple Choice

General William T.Sherman's Special Field Order 15:

• A) gave freed slaves the right to find family members who had been sold.
• B) set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.
• C) gave forty acres and a mule to blacks who wished to move to the unsettled American Southwest.
• D) gave his men instructions to burn their way through the southern interior to the Atlantic coast.
• E) established the Freedmen's Bureau to help blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom.

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