William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15

Further Reading

Articles

• Cox, LaWanda. “The Promise of Land for the Freedmen.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 45 (December 1958): 413–440.
• Drago, Edmund L. “How Sherman’s March through Georgia Affected the Slaves.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 57 (Fall 1973): 361–375.
• Pope, Christie Farnham. “Southern Homesteads for Negroes.” Agricultural History 44 (April 1970): 201–212.
• Smith, John David. “The Enduring Myth of ‘Forty Acres and a Mule.’” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2003, p. B11.
• Westley, Robert. “Many Billions Gone: Is It Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations?” Boston College Law Review 40 (December 1998): 429–476.

Books

• Berlin, Ira, ed. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, Series 1, Vol. 2: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Botume, Elizabeth Hyde. First Days amongst the Contrabands. 1893. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1968.
• Cimbala, Paul A. The Freedmen’s Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing, 2005.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. 1935. Reprint. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
• Gerteis, Louis S. From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy toward Southern Blacks, 1861–1865. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973.
• Marszalek, John F. Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order. New York: Free Press, 1993.
• ———. Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1981.
• Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Land Ownership. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
• Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.
• Sherman, William Tecumseh. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman. 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 1990.
• Simpson, Brooks D., and Jean V. Berlin, eds. Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
• Syrett, John. The Civil War Confiscation Acts: Failing to Reconstruct the South. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.
• Westwood, Howard C. Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen during the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.