Object
Special Field Order No. 15
A Civil War–era military directive presented as an authoritative, timeworn paper headed 'Special Field Order No. 15.' The sheet reads like an executive instruction reallocating land and army supplies; edges and ink show age. Jeff invokes the order as evidentiary moral authority, forcing a fraught administrative response and sharpening the ideological clash at Josh's desk.
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Purpose
To formally reassign captured or abandoned federal land and permit use of decommissioned army supplies for newly freed slaves, effectively organizing immediate postwar land and material relief.
Significance
Functions as the moral and historical precedent Jeff uses to press for slavery reparations, confronting the administration with tangible evidence of earlier redistribution promises and escalating credibility and ideological stakes between protagonist and nominee.
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