Talk:Special Field Orders No. 15

Factual?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/ps_so15.html says this is, at least partially, based on fact. It shouldn't qualify for a speedy delete. --Mr. Vernon 05:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Text of order
I added a reference linking to the text of the order so that it can be used for further additions to the article grifterlake (talk) 18:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Funny thought
Sherman had limited war time powers and only during war. This didn't pass by act of congress and as I recall didn't go before congress. This was enacted by law nor signed into law by the president. So why would they have any concrete effect?70.15.191.119 (talk) 06:22, 14 July 2010 (UTC)


 * In war time military orders have tremendous effect. 2601:140:8900:61D0:75AF:22A4:C1F4:33C2 (talk) 00:15, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Further more
Read the 5th amendment. It concerns abit more than simply the right not incriminate yourself.

"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

But since slavery was legal what would they have been charged with? Treason? That gives you the right to do a couple of things but I don't think that would give you the right to take their property. Why? Try how. Such abilities are rare and banned. It would take a Bill of attainder which is banned. Check out article one section 9. It could also be done with eminent domain but they'd have to pay for it and well needless to say it would be public land and not private land so no 40 acres for any one person. I mean there are possibly a few other ways but so few that would have had in chance during that time period. But again Sherman wasn't a elected member of congress. His authority was small and limited by time. Congress never undertook the above actions.70.15.191.119 (talk) 06:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It was a rebellion, they had lost all rights and the constitution didn't apply to them. They were foreigners without rights. 2601:140:8900:61D0:75AF:22A4:C1F4:33C2 (talk) 00:16, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

The first paragraph just cuts off
"Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865) were military orders issued during the American Civil War, on January 16, 1865, by General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army.[1] They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (1,600 km2) of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (0.16 km2),[2] on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved African American families and other Africans then living in the are "

Are? Are what?

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 * Thanks. It was vandalism. I fixed it. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 17:12, 2 December 2019 (UTC)