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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter IX (search)
Chapter IX
Ordered to Greensboroa, N. C.
March to the Dan River
assigned to the command West of the Mississippi
leaving Washington
flight of General Early
Maximilian
making demonstrations on the upper Rio Grande
Confederates join Maximilian
the French invasion of Mexico and its relations to the rebellion
assist urrender of General Johnston having not yet been effected), so I made the necessary preparations and moved on the 24th of April, arriving at South Boston, on the Dan River, the 28th, the Sixth Corps having reached Danville meanwhile.
At South Boston I received a despatch from General Halleck, who immediately after Lee's surrender orming me that General Johnston had been brought to terms.
The necessity for going farther south being thus obviated we retraced our
Eighth expedition to the Dan River and return. steps to Petersburg, from which place I proceeded by steamer to Washington, leading the cavalry to be marched thither by easy stages.
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