HDQRS. MILITARY
DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Raleigh, N. C.,
April 15, 1865.
General U.S. GRANT and SECRETARY OF WAR:
(Care of General Easton, New
Berne or Morehead.)
I send copies of a correspondence begun with General
Johnston, which, I think, will be followed by terms of capitulation.* I will
accept the same terms as General Grant gave General Lee, and be careful not to
complicate any points of civil policy. If any cavalry have started toward me
caution them that they must be prepared to find our work done. It is now
raining in torrents, and I shall await General Johnston's reply here, and will
propose to meet him in person at Chapel Hill. I have invited Governor Vance to
return to Raleigh with the civil officers of his State. I have met ex-Governor
Graham, Mr. Badger, Moore, Holden, and others, all of whom agree that the war
is over, and that the States of the South must resume their allegiance, subject
to the Constitution and laws of Congress, and that the military power of the
South must submit to the national arms. This great fact once admitted, all the
details are easy of arrangement.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General.
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* See Johnston
to Sherman and Sherman
to Johnston, April 14, pp. 206, 207.
[APRIL 15, 1865. — For Grant to Sheridan, in relation to
co-operation with General Sherman, see Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 760.]
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume
47, Part 3 (Serial No. 100), p. 221-2
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