Reconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War | 1
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The Importance of Land Ownership in the Civil War
General Sherman issued special order number 15 reserving 400,000 acres of abandoned plantation land in coastal Georgia and South Carolina for black settlement. Each family would receive a 40 acre plot later on Sherman authorized to army to loan out mules. On April 9th Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to Union forces in Appomattox, Virginia At long last the Civil War was over Two days later Lincoln stood on the White House balcony before a large crowd and declared that the future was fraught with great difficulty. But he would not live long enough to see it as John Wilkes Booth shot him dead at Ford's Theater.
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