The weather is pleasant. We remained in camp all day.
Lieutenant-General Grant and Major-General Sherman went to the front early this
morning. The report came late this afternoon that Johnston had surrendered his
entire army to Sherman. Great rejoicing in camp! Johnston is to retain one-seventh
of his small arms until his men start for their homes.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 270
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