Toward the end of the civil war, what did general sherman's special field order number 15 do a. it forced white southerners to work on land owned by african americans b. it gave 4p acres of land and a mule to freed african americans c. it made all the african american men in atlanta join the union army d. it gave the confederate soldiers in georgia land to farm

The special order number 15 gave African Americans 40 acres to each freed slave or his family and it benefitted 18,000 freed slaves from 400,000 acres confiscated from South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.It was enacted on January 16, 1865 near the end of the civil war but was revoked by the successor to the assassinated Abraham Lincoln in the fall of the same year.

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths