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ask from General Grant a suspension of hostilities for the purpose of permitting the civil authorities to enter into the needful arrangements to terminate the existing war. General Sherman wrote Johnston the same day that he had authority to suspend hostilities, that he would meet Johnston to confer upon the subject, and added: that a basis of action may be had, I undertake to abide by the same terms and conditions as were made by Generals Grant and Lee at Appomattox Court House on the 9th inst., relative to our two armies. The same evening he wrote General Grant as follows, though this letter is not given in the Memoirs: I send copies of a correspondence begun with General Johnston, which I think will be followed by terms of capitulation. I will grant the same terms as General Grant gave General Lee, and be careful not to complicate any points of civil policy. On the 17th the opposing commanders met alone in a farm-house near Durham Station, when, after some conversa
May 25th (search for this): chapter 17
rded, authenticated as official, by Mr. Secretary Stanton, and published in the New York papers of April 28th. * * * * W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. General Sherman, however, declined to make the change suggested by General Grant, and gave his reasons at length: headquarters Military division of the Mississippi, Washington, D. C., May 26, 1865. Colonel T. S. Bowers, Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C. Colonel: I had the honor to receive-your letter of May 25th last evening, and hasten to answer. I wish to precede it by renewed assurance of my confidence and respect for the President and Lieutenant-General Grant, and that in all matters I will be most willing to shape my official and private conduct to suit their wishes. The past is beyond my control, and the matters embraced in the operations to which you refer are finished. It is but just the reasons that actuated me, right or wrong, should stand of record, but in all future cases, should any
June 7th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 17
will be well to send one corps of infantry also, the whole under Sheridan. The infantry need not go further than Danville, unless they receive orders hereafter to do so. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. General Sherman's report and the subsequent correspondence in relation to it between himself and General Grant, having been brought to the attention of General Halleck, the latter thus reviewed the whole subject: headquarters Military division of the James, Richmond, Va., June 7, 1865. Hon. E M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sir: I have just received the Army and Navy Gazette of May 30th, containing an official publication of Major-General Sherman's letters of May 9th and 26th, with other papers on the same subject, parts of which had been previously published in the newspapers. In these letters and papers General Sherman has made statements and reflections on my official conduct, which are incorrect and entirely unjustified by the facts of the case. 1st. He char
December 8th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 17
unt of the interview: * * * * We again entered Bennett's house and I closed the door. General Johnston then assured me that he had authority over all the Confederate armies, so that they would obey his orders to surrender on the same terms with his own, but he argued that, to obtain so cheaply this desirable result, I ought to give his men and officers some assurance of their political rights after their surrender. I explained to him that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of amnesty of December 8, 1863, still in force, enabled every Confederate soldier and officer below the rank of colonel to obtain an absolute pardon by simply laying down his arms and taking the common oath of allegiance, and that General Grant, in accepting the surrender of General Lee's army, had extended the same principle to all the officers, General Lee included. Such a pardon, I understood, would restore to them all their rights of citizenship. But he insisted that the officers and men of the Confederate army
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e. April 17, 1865. John H. Reagan. By comparing the above draft with the one written by General Sherman with Reagan's before him, it will be sees that Johnston is correct in asserting that Sherman's paper differed from his only in being fuller, and that Sherman's principal additions were the provisions restoring the courts, and the submission of questions pertaining to divided States to the Supreme Court: Memorandum, or basis of agreement, made this 18th day of April, A. D. 1865, near Durham's Station, in the State of North Carolina, by and between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the Confederate Army, and Major-General W. T. Sherman, commanding the Army of the United States in North Carolina, both present. I. (See 6, Reagan's draft.) The contending armies now in tie field to maintain the status quo until notice is given by the Commanding General of any one to his opponent, and reasonable time, say forty-eight hours, allowed. II. (See 1, Reagan.) The Con
May 26th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 17
belief that so much mischief was never before embraced in so small a space as in the newspaper paragraph headed Sherman's Truce Disregarded, authenticated as official, by Mr. Secretary Stanton, and published in the New York papers of April 28th. * * * * W. T. Sherman, Major-General commanding. General Sherman, however, declined to make the change suggested by General Grant, and gave his reasons at length: headquarters Military division of the Mississippi, Washington, D. C., May 26, 1865. Colonel T. S. Bowers, Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C. Colonel: I had the honor to receive-your letter of May 25th last evening, and hasten to answer. I wish to precede it by renewed assurance of my confidence and respect for the President and Lieutenant-General Grant, and that in all matters I will be most willing to shape my official and private conduct to suit their wishes. The past is beyond my control, and the matters embraced in the operations to which you refer
May 25th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 17
the Army of the James, to push on, cut off Johnston's retreat, and pay no attention to orders from Sherman. These awoke that storm of abuse which the latter poured out upon Mr. Stanton and General Halleck. For his criticisms upon the latter, General Grant so far reprimanded him, as to formally suggest the modification of the report in which he reflected upon that officer. The letter upon this subject was as follows: headquarters armies of the United States. Washington, D. C., May 25, 1865. Major-General W. T. Sherman, Comd'g Military Division of the Mississippi. General: General Grant directs me to call your attention to the part of your report in which the necessity of maintaining your truce, even at the expense of many lives, is spoken of. The General thinks that, in making a truce, the commander of an army can control only his own army, and that the hostile general must make his own arrangements with other armies acting against him. Whilst independent generals, a
May 9th (search for this): chapter 17
tenant-General. General Sherman's report and the subsequent correspondence in relation to it between himself and General Grant, having been brought to the attention of General Halleck, the latter thus reviewed the whole subject: headquarters Military division of the James, Richmond, Va., June 7, 1865. Hon. E M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sir: I have just received the Army and Navy Gazette of May 30th, containing an official publication of Major-General Sherman's letters of May 9th and 26th, with other papers on the same subject, parts of which had been previously published in the newspapers. In these letters and papers General Sherman has made statements and reflections on my official conduct, which are incorrect and entirely unjustified by the facts of the case. 1st. He charges that I encroached upon his military command, by directing a portion of my troops to march upon Greensboro in North Carolina. By direction of the President, I was, on the 19th of April
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