eeding him in command of the army.

Johnston was never again to gain any great victories, for he had in some
way incurred the ill-will of Jefferson Davis, and was placed in one
impossible position after another, sent to meet an enemy which always
outnumbered him, and refused the assistance which he should have had.
The last of these tasks was that of stopping Sherman's march to the sea,
but Sherman had sixty thousand men to his seventeen thousand, and a
battle was out of the question.

After Lee's surrender, Davis fled south to Greensboro, where Johnston
found him and advised that, since the war had been decided against them,
it was their duty to end it without delay, as its further continuance
could accomplish nothing and would be mere murder. To this Davis
reluctantly agreed, and Johnston thereupon sought Sherman and made terms
of surrender for his army and Beauregard's. The terms which Sherman
granted were rejected by Congress as too liberal, and another agreement
was drawn up, similar to the one which had been signed between Grant and
Lee. It is worth remarking that the Union generals in the field were
disposed to treat their fallen foes with greater charity and kindness
than the politicians in Congress, who had never seen a battlefield, and
who were concerned, not with succoring a needy brother, but with
wringing every possible advantage from the situation.

To two other southern commanders we must give passing mention before
turning from this period of our history. First of these is James
Longstreet, who had the reputation of being the hardest fighter in the
Confederate service, whose men were devoted to him, and called him
affectionately "Old Pete." The army always felt secure when "Old Pete"
was with it; and, indeed, he did not seem to know how to retreat. He
held the Confederate right at Bull Run, and the left at Fredericksburg;
he saved Jackson from defeat by Pope, at the second battle of Bull Run;
he was on the right at Gettysburg, and tried to dissuade Lee from the
disastrous charge of the third day which resulted in Confederate defeat;
he held the left at Chickamauga, did brilliant service in the
Wilderness, and was included in the surrender at Appomattox. A sturdy
and indomitable man, the Confederacy had good reason to be proud of him.

The second is J.E.B. Stuart, as a cavalry leader second only to
Jackson, and Sheridan, but with his reputation shadowed by a fatal
mistake. He was a past master of the s