...you came along, as you must have observed that I held the military control so as to adapt it to any phase the case might assume. It is but just I should record the fact, that I made my terms with General Johnston under the influence of the liberal terms you extended to the army of General Lee, at Appomattox court-house, on the 9th, and the seeming policy of our government, as evinced by the call of the Virgin...