A persistent rumor spread through the South in 1865 and 1866 that the federal government would provide freedpeople with

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The rumor that the federal government would provide freedpeople with "forty acres of land and a mule" spread through the South in 1865 and 1866. This idea was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, issued by General Sherman, but it was not widely implemented and was later rescinded by President Andrew Johnson.

A Persistent Rumor Spread Through the South in 1865 and 1866