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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 45: March through the Carolinas; the Battle of Bentonville; Johnston's surrender (search)
ary with the President, but because he had been so publicly and cruelly denounced by the War Department. Grant sent Sherman again to meet Johnston. They met April 26th and agreed upon a new set of terms putting Johnston's army, officers and men upon their parole to fight no more, and permitting them to return to their homes. to Raleigh, Grant read the memorandum of agreement carefully, put his approval upon it, and leaving us the next day, took the same to Washington. On that day, April 26th, Halleck sent a dispatch to the Secretary of War, showing that troops had been sent from the Army of the Potomac into Sherman's vicinity. This singular clause ds as to the state of his feelings are pertinent: I was outraged beyond measure, and was resolved to resent the insult, cost what it might! On the morning of April 26th I wrote a letter to my home: Sherman's terms were not approved at Washington. I go with him to meet Johnston to-day, and expect other terms will be arranged.