William Tecumseh Sherman Archives

Authors: William Tecumseh Sherman

1860–1877

Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to James M. Calhoun, et al. (1864)

JAMES M. CALHOUN, Mayor, E. E. RAWSON and S. C. WELLS, representing City Council of Atlanta. Gentlemen: I have your letter of the 11th, in the nature of a petition

1860–1877

Forty Acres and a Mule: Special Field Order No. 15

1. The islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John’s River, Florida, are reserved