JOHNSTON’S SURRENDER: The Time and Place of the Concluding Arrangements; Number of Men and Guns Handed Over (5/8/1865)
Special Dispatches to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 7 -- 10 P.M. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writing from Raleigh under date of the 3d Inst., gives the following particulars of the final surrender of JOHNSTON's army: RALEIGH, Wednesday, May 3. When Gen. JOHNSTON signified his intention of accepting the modified decrees of surrender, hostilities ceased, this time without a doubt as to their finality. Preparations were immediately made to move northward the corps that have marched from Atlanta to the sea, and from the metropolis of Georgia to the capital of North Carolina. The details of capitulation...