Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891 to Joseph E. Brown
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04025 Author/Creator: Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891 Place Written: Greensboro, North Carolina Type: Manuscript document Date: 30 April 1865 Pagination: 1 p. ; 25.5 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy
Announces to Brown, the Governor of Georgia, the surrender of the last Confederate troops to Union General William T. Sherman. The surrender terminated hostilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Johnston states, "I made this convention to spare the blood of the gallant little army committed to me, to prevent further sufferings of our people by the devastation and ruin inevitable from the march of invading armies, and to avoid the crime of waging a hopeless war."
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