40 acres and a mule: How the first reparations for slavery were reversed - The Washington Post

... Four days after the meeting, Sherman would issue Special Field Order, No. 15, confiscating Confederate land along the rice coast. Sherman would later order "40 acres and a mule" to thousands of Black families, which historians would later refer to as the first act of reparations to enslaved Black people.
 But the order would be short-lived. After Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, the order would be reversed and the land given to Black families would be rescinded and returned to White Confederate landowners...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/15/40-acres-mule-slavery-reparations/