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40 Acres and a Lie Part 1
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Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No.
15—better known as 40 acres and a mule—implied a better life in the waning days of the Civil War.
But 40 acres and a mule was more than that.
None of the land Bailey lives on today is part of Hutchinson’s 40 acres.