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Chapter 17:
The terms with Johnston
the first draft made by a Confederate Cabinet officer.
General Sherman sneers at political generals, and then devotes thirty pages of his Memoirs to an inaccurate history of his own political surrender to General Jos. E. Johnston near Raleigh.
The country will never forget its joy over the news from Appomattox, or the chill which shortly after fell upon it when the true character of Sherman's terms became known.
If the country at large ever does forget the circumstances attending the latter event, those who were at Raleigh at the time never will.
The real character of these terms was carefully concealed there, even from very prominent officers, and was known first at the North.
It was given out at Sherman's Headquarters that the terms granted Johnston were virtually the same as those extended by Grant to Lee, and special stress was laid upon the statement that in no sense had General Sherman recognized the political existence