. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... oln was a tyrant, and as such oughtto be put to death. He had no accomplicesin the South, and his bloody deed wasregarded with horror by the southern people. We must now return to Shermans army,which we left resting at Goldsboro. John-stons army was in the vicinity of Raleigh,and after the fall of Richmond was joined byMr. Davis and the various officers of theConfederate government. On the tenth ot 788 THE CIVIL WAR. April Sherman advanced from Goldsborotowa
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... oln was a tyrant, and as such oughtto be put to death. He had no accomplicesin the South, and his bloody deed wasregarded with horror by the southern people. We must now return to Shermans army,which we left resting at Goldsboro. John-stons army was in the vicinity of Raleigh,and after the fall of Richmond was joined byMr. Davis and the various officers of theConfederate government. On the tenth ot 788 THE CIVIL WAR. April Sherman advanced from Goldsborotowards Johnstons position, and steadilypressed the Confederate army back. On thethirteenth Sherman entered Raleigh. Beingconvinced that further resistance was hope-less, and having learned of the surrender ofGeneral Lees army, General Johnston now States of the Confederacy to their lost placesin the Union, it was disapproved by theFederal government, and Sherman wasordered to resume hostilities. General John-ston was at once notified by General Shermanof this order, and on the twenty-sixth ofApril entered into an agreement with him by. INTERVIEW BETWEEN GENERA opened negotiations with General Shermanfor the surrender of his army to the Federalcommander. The result of these negotiations was anagreement signed by the two commanderson the eighteenth of April. As this agree-ment provided for the restoration of the LS SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON. which he surrendered to General Sherma*all the Confederate forces under his command,on terms similar to those granted to GeneralLee by General Grant. The example of Generals Lee and John-ston was followed by the other Confederatecommanders throughout the South. The ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 789 last to surrender was General E. KirbySmith, in Texas, on the twenty-sixth ofMay. On the twenty-ninth of May Presi-dent Johnson issued a proclamation announc-ing the close of the war, and offering amnestyto all who had participated in it on the Con-fe
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