The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - Confederate States of America |
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Acting Assistant Adjutant-General April April 12 April 27 ARCHER ANDERSON Army of Georgia Army of Tennessee artillery battery Berne Brevet Major-General bridge Brig Brigadier-General camp Capt Captain cavalry Charleston Colonel command of Maj Confederate Danville Davis Department of North DEPT dispatch duty enemy Fifteenth Army Corps Fourth Division G. T. BEAUREGARD Goldsborough Greensborough HALLECK HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT Hilton Head Infantry J. A. CAMPBELL J. E. JOHNSTON J. M. SCHOFIELD L. M. DAYTON Lieut Lieutenant-General major-general commanding Major-General Schofield March 27 miles MILITARY DIVISION MISSISSIPPI move North Carolina obedient servant OHIO order of Maj Q. A. GILLMORE railroad Raleigh rebel received Regiment respectfully Richmond River road Salisbury Second Division Secretary sent Seventeenth Army Seventeenth Army Corps Smithfield South SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS SPECIAL ORDERS Third Division to-day to-morrow train Twenty-third Army Corps U. S. Colored Troops U. S. GRANT U. S. Volunteers W. T. SHERMAN wagons Washington Wilmington
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Page 141 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 141 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 141 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th inst., they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect.
Page 141 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Page 303 - I admit my folly in embracing in a military convention any civil matters, but unfortunately such is the nature of our situation that they seem inextricably united, and I understood from you at Savannah that the financial state of the country demanded military success, and would warrant a little bending to policy.
Page 286 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 626 - Department, and all officers and persons in the military and naval service aid and assist the said Provisional Governor in carrying into effect this proclamation, and they are enjoined to abstain from, in any way, hindering, impeding, or discouraging the loyal people from the organization of a State Government, as herein authorized.
Page 245 - In general terms the war to cease, a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of the arms, and the resumption of peaceful pursuits by the officers and men hitherto composing said armies.
Page 406 - What is to be done with the freedmen, is the question of all, and is the all-important question. It requires prompt and wise action to prevent the negro from becoming a huge elephant on our hands. If I am to govern this State, it is important for me to know it at once. If another is to be sent here it cannot be done too soon, for he will probably undo the most that I shall have done. I shall be glad to hear from you freely when you have time to write. " I will send your message to Wilson at once....
Page 68 - HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. SIR : — I have the honor to submit...