GENERAL SHERMAN'S ORDERS ON PEACE. SPECIAL FIELD ORDER, No. 58. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, The general commanding announces to the army a suspension of hostilities, and an agreement with General Johnston and high officials, which, when formally ratified, will make peace from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Until the absolute peace is arranged, a line passing through Tyrrell's Mount, Chapel University, Durham's Station, and West Point, on the Neuse River, will separate the two armies. Each army commander will group his camps entirely with a view to comfort, health, and good police. All the details of military discipline must still be maintained, and the general hopes and believes that in a very few days it will be his good fortune to conduct you all to your homes. The fame of this army for courage, industry, and discipline is admitted all over the world. Then let each officer and man see that it is not stained by any act of vulgarity, rowdyism, and petty crime. The cavalry will patrol the front of the line. General Howard will take charge of the district from Raleigh, up to the cavalry, General Slocum to the left of Raleigh and General Schofield in Raleigh right and rear. Quartermasters and commissiaries will keep their supplies up to a light load for the wagons, and the railroad superintendent will arrange a depot for the convenience of each separate army. By order of L. M. DAYTON, A. A. G. MAJOR-GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN. SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 65. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, The general commanding announces a further suspension of hostilities, and a final agreement with General Johnston, which terminates the war as to the armies under his command and the country east of the Chattahoochie. Copies of the terms of convention will be furnished Major-Generals Schofield, Gillmore, and Wilson, who are specially charged with the execution of its details in the Department of North Carolina, Department of the South, and at Macon and Western Georgia. Captain Myers, ordnance department, United States Army, is hereby designated to receive the arms, etc., at Greensboro'. Any commanding officer of a post may receive the arms of any detachment, and see that they are properly stored and accounted for. General Schofield will procure at once the necessary blanks, and supply the other army commanders, that uniformity may prevail; and great care must be taken that all the terms and stipulations on our part be fulfilled with the most scrupulous fidelity, while those imposed on our hitherto enemies will be received in a spirit becoming a brave and generous army. Army commanders may at once loan to the inhabitants such of the captured mules, horses, wagons, and vehicles as can be spared from immediate use; and the commanding generals of armies may issue provisions, animals, or any public supplies that can be spared, to relieve present wants, and to encourage the inhabitants to renew their peaceful pursuits, and to restore the relations of friendship among our fellow-citizens and countrymen. Foraging will forthwith cease, and when necessity or long marches compel the taking of forage, provisions, or any kind of private property, compensation will be made on the spot; or, when the disbursing officers are not provided with funds, vouchers will be given in proper form, payable at the nearest military depot. By order of MAJOR-GEN. W. T. SHERMAN. L. M. DAYTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, No. 66. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Hostilities having ceased, the following changes and dispositions of the troops in the field will be made with as little delay ás practicable: I. The Tenth and Twenty-third corps will remain in the Department of North Carolina, and Major-General J. M. Schofield will transfer back to Major-General Gillmore, commanding Department of the South, the two brigades formerly belonging to the division of brevet Major-General Grover, at Savannah. The Third division, cavalry corps, brevet Major-General J. Kilpatrick commanding, is hereby transferred to the Department of North Carolina, and General Kilpatrick will report in person to Major-General Schofield for orders. II. The cavalry command of Major-Gen. George Stoneman will return to East Tennessee, and that of brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson will be conducted back to the Tennessee River, in the neighborhood of Decatur, Alabama. III. Major-General IIoward will conduct the Army of the Tennessee to Richmond, Va., following roads substantially by Lewisburg, Warrenton, Lawrenceville, and Petersburg, or to the right of that line. Major-General Slocum will conduct the Army of Georgia to Richmond by roads to the left of the one indicated for General Howard, viz., by Oxford, Boydton, and Nottoway Court-house. These armies will turn in at this point the contents of their ordnance trains, and use the wagons for extra forage and provisions. These columns will be conducted slowly and in the best of order, and aim to be at Richmond, ready to resume the march, by the middle of May. IV. The chief-quartermaster and commissary of the military division, Generals Easton and Beckwith, after making proper dispositions of their departments here, will proceed to Richmond and make suitable preparations to receive those columns, and to provide them for the further journey. By order of MAJOR-GEN. W. T. SHERMAN. L. M. DAYTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. то ADDRESS OF GENERAL JOHNSTON THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. [The subjoined "card" of the Confederate commander is of considerable interest, inasmuch as it points out the influences that prompted him to surrender, and states the number of troops he had at the time thereof under his control.] [From the Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat.] WE lay before our readers the following letter from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, stating the causes which induced him to make terms of surrender with General Sherinan. We believe General Johnston's conduct, and his refusal to continue the war after all hope of success was vain, is generally approved; but, if any one has a doubt on this point, the reasons set forth by General Johnston will clearly show that he acted correctly and wisely: CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 6, 1865. Having made a convention with Major-General Sherman to terminate hostilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, it seems to me proper to put before the people of those States the condition of military affairs which rendered that measure absolutely necessary. On the 26th of April, the day of the convention, by the returns of three lieutenant-generals of the Army of Tennessee (that under my command), the number of infantry and artillery present and absent was 70,510; the total |