"Forty Acres and a Mule" Topic

"In a Jan. 15, 1865 letter from Savannah, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman reported to his wife, Ellen, that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton "has been here and is cured of that Negro nonsense" – namely, Stanton's insistence that black regiments be included in his army, an idea Sherman steadfastly opposed. But if Sherman won that particular fight, he knew he faced a much larger challenge: his treatment of blacks during his triumphant campaign through Georgia.

Only two weeks earlier, Sherman had received a warning from Army Chief of Staff Henry Halleck. "While almost everyone is praising your march through Georgia," Halleck wrote, "a certain class … says that you have manifested an almost criminal dislike of the negro, and that you are not willing to carry out the wishes of the government in regard to him." Three days later, on Jan. 2, 1865, Salmon P. Chase, who had recently been confirmed Supreme Court chief justice, urged Sherman to do something to counteract his reputation for "harshness and severity" toward the freedmen that "causes worry to many."…"
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