JOHNSTON SURRENDERS: Gen. Grant Puts an End to the Sherman Truce; The Rebels Give Up the Cause of Jeff. Davis (4/29/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/29/1865

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WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28 -- 3 P.M.

Maj.-Gen. Dix:

A dispatch from Gen. GRANT, dated at Raleigh, 10 P.M., April 26, just received by this department, states that "JOHNSTON surrendered the forces in his command, embracing all from here to the Chattahoochee, to Gen. SHERMAN, on the basis agreed upon between LEE and myself for the Army of Northern Virginia."

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

DISPATCH TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, April 27, via BALTIMORE, Friday, April 28.

A steamer arrived here this morning, from Morehead City, bringing advices from Newbern, that Gen. GRANT has effectually put an end to the armistice agreed upon between Gen. SHERMAN and Gen. JOHNSTON.

Gen. GRANT had given Gen. JOHNSTON up to 6 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning to surrender his army. The conditions are unknown.

Gen. GRANT announced that after that hour hostilities would at once be resumed.

To this Gen. JOHNSTON is said to have replied that if JEFFERSON DAVIS and the leading general officers of the Confederacy were pardoned, and permission given them to leave the country, he would be authorized to accept the terms proposed.

The Terms of Johnston’s Surrender.

As the terms of surrender accorded to the rebel Gen. JOHNSTON are the same as those dictated to Gen. LEE, we refresh the reader's recollection by a republication of Gen. GRANT's note of the 9th inst.:

APPOMATTOX COURT-HOUSE, April 9.

Gen. R.E. Lee:

In accordance with the substance of my letter to you, of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to with Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate; one copy to be given to any officer designated by me,

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KEYWORDS: civilwar

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Johnston Surrenders: Gen. Grant Puts an End to the Sherman Truce – 2
Booth’s Fate: Particulars of His Capture and Death – 2-3
The Obsequies: Westward Progress of the Funeral Cortege – 3-4
Dreadful Disaster: Explosion of a Mississippi Steamer – 4
News from Washington – 4
The Day of Prayer Changed – 4-5
The Condition of the Sewards – 5
Gen. Lee Expected to Visit Canada – 5
Gen. Wilson’s Late Raid – 5
Missouri Threatened with Invasion – 5
Editorial: Johnston’s Surrender – 5
Editorial: A Class Revolution – 5-6
Editorial: The Surrender of Johnston – The Close of the War – 6
Editorial: Secretary Stanton – 6
Editorial: The Shenandoah – Extraordinary Conduct of the Australian Authorities – 6-7
Cabinet Changes – 7
The Family of Mr. Lincoln – 7
The Central Railroad Bill – 7
Relief for Our Streets – 7
Musical – 7
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"Editorial: Johnston’s Surrender – 5"

Johnson & Sherman became friends and died within a month of each other in February & March 1891.