Bennett Place Surrender

On April 26, 1865, Confederate General Joseph E Johnston surrendered his remaining forces to Union General William T Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina effectively ending the US Civil War. 90,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered. From a short excerpt:

"...Thus, when a dispatch from Sherman arrived at six o’clock in the evening on April 24 notifying him that hostilities would resume on April 26 and noon sharp, Johnston knew he needed to act fast in order to procure favorable surrender terms for his quickly shrinking army. At Johnston’s request, he and Sherman met again at the Bennett Place on April 26 without Grant. Under Johnston and Sherman’s authority, General John Schofield drafted terms that closely resembled the Appomattox terms. On April 27, Johnston wrote a codicil for these terms which Schofield amended. President Johnson and his cabinet approved these terms and did not take issue with Johnston’s supplement. Under these final terms, Johnston’s army and his naval force would cease all hostilities, each brigade could keep 1/7 of its small arms and soldiers would deposit their arms at their respective state capitols, all officers and men were to be paroled and take an oath to not take up arms against the United States, their paroles would be signed by their immediate commanders, soldiers could retain their horses and other private property, and the Union army would provide field, rail and water transportation home to paroled men. Separate from this agreement, Sherman also promised 250,000 rations to the newly paroled troops. These favorable surrender terms allowed former Confederates to return home with relative ease."