to General Sherman:

"WAR DEPARTMENT,
"_Washington City_, April 21, 1865.

"GENERAL: The memorandum or basis agreed upon between General
Sherman and General Johnston having been submitted to the
President, they are disapproved. You will give notice of the
disapproval to General Sherman, and direct him to resume
hostilities at the earliest moment.

"The instructions given to you by the late President, Abraham
Lincoln, on the 3rd of March, by my telegram of that date
addressed to you, express substantially the views of President
Andrew Johnson, and will be observed by General Sherman.

"A copy is herewith appended.

"The President desires that you proceed immediately to the
headquarters of General Sherman, and direct operations against
the enemy.

Yours truly,

"EDWIN M. STANTON,
"_Secretary of War_.

"TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT."

This dispatch was received on the morning of the 24th. General Sherman
instantly gave notice to Gen. Johnston as follows: "I have replies from
Washington to my communication of the 18th. I am instructed to limit my
operations to your immediate command, and not attempt civil
negotiations. I therefore demand the surrender of your army on the same
terms as were given to General Lee at Appomattox, Va., on the 9th of
April, instant, purely and simply."

General Sherman now issued orders terminating the truce on the 26th, at
12 o'clock M., and ordered all to be in readiness to march at that
time.

Again, on the 25th, General Johnston invited General Sherman to another
conference, with a view to surrender. It now became the province of
General Grant to take the lead in negotiations, but he preferred that
Sherman should consummate the work. Nevertheless, General Johnston was
afforded another interview. At this conference final terms were soon
concluded, and the second grand army of the Confederacy was surrendered
to Sherman on the following terms:

"All acts of war on the part of the troops under General Johnston's
command to cease from this date. All arms and public property to be
deposited at Greensboro, and delivered to an ordnance officer of
the United States Army. Rolls of all officers and men to be made in
duplicate, one copy to be