This order aimed to redistribute confiscated Confederate land to formerly enslaved people. However, after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson, overturned the ...

Sherman during the Civil War. The order would have alotted for 400,000 acres of Confederate land to be broken up to give formerly enslaved freed Black families 40 acres a piece so that they could ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...

The Army also took advantage of an abundance of cheap land and favorable weather in the South to build new military bases, which were named after local Confederate soldiers to win over white ...