Cloudy and misty. It
is reported that Gen. Johnston has surrendered his army in North Carolina,
following the example of Gen. Lee. But no salutes have been fired in honor of
the event. The President (Davis) is supposed to be flying toward the
Mississippi River, but this is merely conjectural. Undoubtedly the war is at an
end, and the Confederate States Government will be immediately extinct—its
members fugitives. From the tone of leading Northern papers, we have reason to
believe President Lincoln will call Congress together, and proclaim an amnesty,
etc.
Judge Campbell said
to Mr. Hart (clerk in the Confederate States War Department) yesterday that
there would be no arrests, and no oath would be required. Yet ex-Captain Warner
was arrested yesterday, charged with ill treating Federal prisoners, with
registering a false name, and as a dangerous character. I know the contrary of
all this; for he has been persecuted by the Confederate States authorities for
a year, and forced to resign his commission.
My application to
Gen. Shepley for permission to remove my family to the Eastern Shore, where
they have relatives and friends, and may find subsistence, still hangs fire.
Every day I am told to call the next
day, as it has not been acted upon.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 474-5
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