field order 15造句

• In August 1865, Johnson reversed Field Order 15, then only eight months old.
• Meanwhile, he canceled Special Field Order 15, returning land to white owners and condemning blacks to de facto slavery.
• By the end of 1866, only 1, 565 of the 40, 000 African-Americans who gained land under Field Order 15 still held it.
• This is a continuation of a narrative about General William T . Sherman's Field Order 15, which set aside land for newly freed slaves in 1865.
• "Apparently, hundreds and perhaps thousands of persons had memorized whole sections of Sherman's Field Order 15, as if it were a reading from the Bible.
• On the northeast Trust Lot is Second African Baptist Church, the site where Union General William Sherman famously announced Special Field Orders 15, better known as " 40 acres and a mule ".
• Overwhelmed by black families that abandoned the plantations to follow him, Sherman issued Special Field Order 15, declaring the Georgia Sea Islands and a 30-mile strip of rice country a black settlement.
• This is the closing installment of the aborted attempt by the federal government, through General William T . Sherman's Field Order 15, to give land to newly freed slaves along the Southern coast.
• Almost immediately after Field Order 15 was issued, the Rev . Ulysses Houston, one of the ministers who had met with Sherman and Stanton, led a group of African Americans to Skidaway Island, off the Georgia coast.
• Thus the focus of the black community and much of the nation at large was on the area covered by Field Order 15 . . . . Eventually, some 40, 000 men, women and children established themselves on the lands covered by Sherman's order.
• The term " 40 Acres and a Mule " traces its roots to : ( a ) Spike Lee movies; ( b ) an overly optimistic Mississippi racetrack owner; ( c ) Thomas Jefferson's heartfelt wish to free the slaves; ( d ) General Sherman's Field Order 15.
• "More than 400, 000 acres of land abandoned by Confederate owners on the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands and along the coast were set aside for black settlement and temporary possession . . . . Plots of 40 acres per family were proposed, and following the wisdom of the black ministers and the logic of the situation, Sherman's order also directed that no whites, except necessary military personnel or others in helping roles, were to reside in the new black settlements . . . . Field Order 15 and its land provisions created an explosion of hope within the black communities of the South and the North ."