th
Corps excepted), uniting with Sherman's army, held the Grand Review
of May 23, 1865. The Sixth Corps, with many detachments, numbering
about 30,000 in all, arrived later, and was reviewed by President
Johnson and his Cabinet and Generals Grant, Sherman, and Meade,
June 8, 1865. The Army of the Potomac was disbanded June 28, 1865.
All the armies of the Union were soon broken up and the volunteers
composing them mustered out and sent to their homes to take up the
pursuits of peace.(33) The prisons of the South had given up their
starving victims.

On the recommendations of Wright, Meade, and Grant I was appointed
a Brevet Major-General of Volunteers, the commission of the President
reciting that it was "for gallant and distinguished services during
the campaign ending in the surrender of the insurgent army under
General R. E. Lee."

I was mustered out at Washington June 27, 1865, having served
continuously as an officer precisely four years and two months,
and fought in about the first (Rich Mountain) and the last (Sailor's
Creek) battles of the war, and campaigned in six of the eleven
seceding States, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland.(34)

The regiments of my brigade (110th, 122d and 126th Ohio, 67th and
138th Pennsylvania, 6th Maryland, and 9th New York Heavy Artillery)
lost, killed on the field, 54 officers and 812 enlisted men, wounded
101 officers and 2410 enlisted men, aggregate 3377, only _six_ less
than the killed and wounded under Scott and Taylor in their conquest
of Mexico, 1846-1848,(35) and more than the like casualties under
the direct command of Washington in the Revolutionary War--Lexington
to Yorktown.

The terms of capitulation accorded to Lee's army were granted to
other armies.

With Lee's surrender came the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama,
April 9th, followed by the surrender of Mobile, April 12th; Joe
Johnston's army in North Carolina, April 26th; Dick Taylor's in
Mississippi; May 4th; and Kirby Smith's in Texas, May 26th.
Jefferson Davis, with members of his Cabinet, was captured at
Irwinville, Georgia, May 10, 1865.

As the curtain fell before the awful drama of war, 174,233 Confederates
surrendered, who, with 98,802 others held as prisoners of war (in
all 273,035), were paroled and sent to their homes, and 1686 cannon
and over 200,000 small arms were the spoils of victory.

The war was over; it was not in vain.

State-rights and secession--twin heresies, as promulgat