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!t3haiitaiiqua Program 16, 17; 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 First Afternoon. ^Jlatroductory Exercises. Concert?Orchestral Sextette. ; Admission 50c and 5c war tax; Cbiidren 29c and lc war tax. First Night. ^ ; Concert?Orchestral Sextette. ? v/ Lecture?"Getting Together"?Ada "Ward, of London, England. Admission 50c and 5c war tax; Children 29c and lc war tax. Second Morning. '*J Children's Hour. ? Second Afternoon. %;?kmcen?Harvesters Company. ^Lecture?-"The. New Competition"? J\i?-E. P. Kline. :. Admission 50c and 5c war tax; % Ghiidren 29c and Ic.war tax. ? Second Night. ^^..CLectnre-?"France and America"? ,^ ?apt Perigord. x~ v C?oncert??Harvesters Company. Admission 50c and 5c war tax; Children 29c and lc war tax. Third Morning. Children's Hour. ? Third Afternoon. Concert--Great Lakes String Quar tet. Presidential Orchestra on S. S. George Washington. Admission 50c and 5c war tax Children 29c and lc war tax. Third Night. Grand Concert?Mme. Augusta Lenska,Ruafeian Prima Donna and the t3reat Lakes String Quartet Presiden ts. Orchestra on S. S. George Wash ington. 'Admission 77c and 8c war tax; ' Children 39c and; lc war tax. Fourth Morning. Children's Hour. Fourth Ajjternoon. Leeture-^"Community ,Health"? 31!ss Florence BuHard- (Official Red *Cross Nurse). Admission 50c and. 5c war tax; ClhlTdren 2"9c and lc war tax. Fourth Night. To be announced. Admission 50c and 5c war tax; -'Children 29c and lc war tax. Flf *h Morning. Children's Hour. if-\ Fifth Afternoon. 'Concert?Itohttmir Kryl and His Band. Admission 50c and 5c war tax.; Children 29c and lc war tax. Fifth Night. I Grand Concert?-Bohumir Kryl and His Band. Musical Pageant, "War, Victory and Peace." (Mr. Kryl will personally conduct the band during b?th the concert and the pageant.) Admission 77c and 8c war tax; Children 39c and lc . war tax. '* Sixth Morning. Children's Hour. : ?y ? S?rth Afternoon. ? il^ctnrer-'^e- Great Highway"? Charles Zueblin. ;Ajo^nission\50c..and 5c war tax; v Children 25c and lc war tax. " Sfcrth Night. Debate?"Shall . the Government Own and Operate- the Jtailroads?" ( ^Affirmative--Charles Zueblin, not ed publicist, formerly of Chicago Uni versity. - -i ^Negative?Hon. Leslie M. Shaw former Secretary of the Treasury. Admission 50c and 5c war tax; Children 29c and lc war tax. Seventh Afternoon. Concert?Metropolitan Quar rtet.. . Qr *Personnel: Miss Helen Hagen, So prano, Mr. Walter Peterson, Tenor Milss Esther Muensterman, Contralto Mr. Curtis W. Johns, Bass; Miss Lau ra Clendenen, Pianist. Admission 50c andv 5c war tax Children 29c and lc war tax. Seven Hi XighLt. Grand Concert?Metropolitan Quar tet. "Uncle Sam'a Folks" Alton B. Packard, master cartoon ist and entertainer. Admission 50c and 5c war tax Children 29e and lc war tax. .Grand Japanese Manufacturers Can Under ? sell the British and American. Glasgow, March 30 (Correspond ence)?Japanese manufacturers in al most every line of trade are able t < undersell their British and America: competitors by as much as 33 1-J per cent and stiil gain a profit, accord ing to the Journal of the Glasgov Chamber of Commerce. The trad< paper attributes Japan's advantag? to lower wages and facilities foi transportation. In 1917, the Journal adds, Japar made a very marked advance in im portation of raw materials and th( conversion of them into finished good; for export. The cost of labor, says th< paper, is the crucial question in .th< problem of how far Great Britain car hold her own against Japanese com petition. In the Japanese weaving factories fourteen women or girls ar< employed to one man or boy whih the proportion in the great English textile industry in Lancashire is twe women to one man. Airship Transportation is Costly. Paris, March 24 (Correspondence) ?Revictualling the starving towns and villages of northern France bj dropping parcels of food and cloth ing from the skies had a romantic glamor, about it that makes most people overlook the business details of freight transportation by airship. Matter of fact persons who pinned their faith to the humble motor truck find their views amply vindicat ed by a bill of expenses incurred by ?I5 airships which recpntly carried 3,000 pounds of supplies 250 miles from Le Bourget to Maubeuge and Valenciennes. It cost just over a dollar for each pound of merchandise carried, where as by motor truck the cost would not have ,exceeded 100 dollars for the whole trip, or three cents a pound. It seems the motor truck has a big start on the airship in the matter of cost of haulage. Germany simply would dance, but she is startled at the size of the fiddler's bill, which she thought was join's to be paid by the guests she forced to attend.?Dearbone Inde [Plan Rapidly Developing For Formation of Big Cotton Export Corporation Columbia, April 22?Plans for the formation of a big- cotton export cor poration -with a capital stock of one or. two hundred million dollars are rapidly being worked out says a statement issued today by the South Carolina Cotton Association. It is un derstood, says the statement that the city of Birmingham, Ala., alone, is preparing to take $10,000,000 of tho stock of the new corporation. "The committee appointed at the recent meeting in Memphis," says the statement "to work out the details of the formation of a great cotton ex port corporation with a capital stock of $100,000,000 is proceeding very carefully with its task but it is learn ed that the plans are being rapidly worked out. The proposition is said i to be finding great favor over the en tire South and there is every reason to believe that it will be put over. "The committee has not yet acted on the sugestion of conference held in Columbia last week that the capital stock of the proposed corporation be made $200,000,000 instead of $100, 000,000 as adopted by the Memphis meeting. The suggestion of the Souih Carolina conference respecting the in crease of stock will be formally sub mitted to the committee shortly. "This corporation will have power to handle cotton in all its various phases, including exporting, market ing, warehousing and financing; in fact every phase practically that touches cotton. It will largely fill the place in the South, both to the banks and the general business interests of the South that the Federal Reserve Bank fills to to the nation." Regarding the resolution passed at the conference in Columbia asking the banks of the State to increase their capital stock, the statement says: "The Association has transmitted to the" bankers of the State the resolu tion passed at the conference urging that they increase their capital stock 50 per cenf. It is known that the mat ter is being given careful considera ! tion by the bankers of the State and we have reason to hope that many will comply with the request." Ships for South Shipping: Board Favors Plan to Foster Commerce of South ern Ports Washington, April 29.?As the re sult of a conference held here last . week' between Senators Smith of South Carolina, Trammell of Florida and others with Chairman Hurley of the United States shipping board, at which the board was urgently re ? quested to allocate not less than 14 of its ships to South Atlantic and . Gulf Coast trade with Central and . South America and that these ships be sent to Charleston and to North Carolina, Florida and Georgia ports it was learned - today that the matter ; will terminate successfully. When the conference was held at the offices of\ the shipping board offi . cials of the board were informed as to the urgency of this movement and . asked to give the matter immediate ; consideration. This the board mem ' bers promised to do and with the as '_ surance today that two of the three members charged with the duty ol . making an investigation on the mat ter had decided favorably upon it anc chat the third member would alsc most likely do so within the next daj or so, was taken to mean that suc cess is shortly ahead and that as soor as the usual formalities incident tc the situation receive attention, these government ships will iproceed tc ; Charleston and the other ports, read> jfor business with Central and South I American countries. At the present . j time it is announced that only eight or ten of these ships will be thus al i located and details thus far as to hove . j they will be distributed are yet to be . forthcoming. 3 Senator Trammell, who was among j those who pushed the matter and the $ hearing last week, was enthusiastic . today when informed of the present 7 situation. It means ships right at the ? State's own doors at all times to move > their commodities and is one of the P most important after the war prob lems yet solved in a practical way, he x believes. "I 5 j A Tribute to America by An English J Artist. A London. April 2?America's war I - service is the tln-me of a picture just r! completed by one of this country's i j foremost women artists. Miss Marga i ret Lindsay Williams. it is to be t shown at the Royal Academy. > "An Empire's Tribute to the Flag of Stars," is the title of the picture Britannia is depicted with the laurels of honor and victory clinging to h^r shield and her bloodstained sword laid down, kneeling on the eagle of mili tarism which is dead, slain by many powers. She is kissing the Flag of Stars?the symbol of aspiration? j which is being held by a winged and I olive-crowned figure of Peace, which 'has just alighted on the world. I Miss Williams as a pupil of Sar I gent won the Royal Academy's gold medal. English Want Better Work Honrs. Wakefield, Eng., March .10 {Corre spondence)?The women's section of j labor party in Wakefield, Norman ton and Rot.hwell. have adopted a j resolution declaring that no govcrn iment scheme of reconstruction would ! be acceptable to the women unless it recognized the need of lightening the hours of work for women in their homes. Dr. Marion Phillips declared that the government should insist that the hours of wage-earners should be re arranged to conform to normal fam ily life. She demanded the abolition j of night work except for the main-1 tenance of public services. I Details of Johnston's Surrender told by Capt. Buford of Newberry Took Place at the "Bennett House", near Durham, N. C?j April 22, 1865?Capt. Buford! Accompanied Col. Rawlins1 Lowndes with the Message! From Johnston to Sherman. Pisgah. April 2S?While in Colum-j bia .at the soldiers' parade not longj since 1 met Capt. M. M. Buford; of | Xewbrry a gallant soldier of the Con ifederate war and long sheriff of his County. He was telling of Johnston's surrender to many friends and old soldiers and I asked him for his rem iniscences and he sent them to me and I ask that you publish them for 1 have never seen the terms of sur render published. They will be very interesting to old soldiers and the closing scenes of the cause, that we love so dearly. J. E. Du Pre. I have wished for seme time to get a story from Capt. M. M. Buford abott the last days of Johnson's army and its surrender, so thai I could put in print. This wish came i about in this way: He and I were talking about the last days of the retreat bofor<- Sher man in Xorth Carolina over roads deep in mud: with scarcely anything to eat for we had had to abandon our stores when we left the head of the" railroad at Cheraw and crossed over the Pee Dee river for our long hike in the wettest weather, it seems to me. that 1 had ever known. It was during the famous spring freshet of 1865. There were no tents, no ambu buiances for the siek. and only a poor excuse for a wagon train. The in fantryman who broke down by the way had to be loft behind, their offi cers malcing the best arrangements they could with kind citizens for their care. The cavalry fared better. Hut nobody wanted to be left behind to fall into the hands of Sherman's army. An old farmer gave one of the kid soldiers in my company an old mule. The new owner was very kind. an< would let his sick and weary com rades take turns in riding. At Raleigh the remnant of Johnston's army went to pieces, portions going ontJ way and other portions other ways. The kid soldiers were entraining for South Carolina in and on top of long trains of box ears. The mule had come to the end of his journey, for there was no way to carry him further, and his owner was trying to sell him to somebody in the large and motley crowd at the st?tion: Time was near ly up, and the owner was desperate, lowering his price till finally he sang out. "I'll take. $50/ for the mule and throw in the bridle.*' A man in caval ry uniform stepped forward and said. "It's my mule." and-paid the $50 and led the mule away. When I told Capt. Buford this story, he jumped up out of his chair and said excitedly: "I was the man. I didn't want th*> mule, but took a chance I led him up into the heart of the city ?and sold him to a farmer for $1,100." This incident led to reminiscences Noted Prima Donna Here on Third Night of Chautauqua Week Mine. Augusta Lenska, prima donna contralto, has scored notable successes In New York, Chicago and European musical centers. .She is not only a highly esteemed grand opera prima donna, but has received highest praise as a concert and oratorio singer. Mine. Leuska is of Russian birth and tfras reared in Cape Colony, Africa, go MIME. AUGUSTA LENSKA. in? to London to pursue her education. Eier ability as a singer attracted the notice of prominent musicians. Later she studied in Brussels, and before coining to America had appeared in grand oper* in many countries of Eu rope. Eugene Sue's "Mysteries of Paris" can not compare in contemporaneous human interest with the daily eorre-i sponde.nee from that city nowadays.? J New York Sun. h immediately preceding the final] break-up of the army?reminiscences! of the fights at Bentonyille, Averys- j boro and Fayeteville. the narrow <?-? cape of Kilpatrick and his cavalry from capture by Wheeler and his, and so on. The most interesting part of these reminiscences" was Capt. Bu ford's story of .Johnston's surrender; interesting because Capt. Buford had acted as courier and messenger be tween the commanders of the two armies and knew many of the details of the negotiations for an armistice. Some of these I will set down here as told by the young cavalryman, who was an actor in the closing scene-:. I shall not attempt to quote Capt. Bu ford literally, but give the substance of what he says. My remarks, up to this point, are not supposed to he of any special im portance though they are strictly true, and may he of some interest; but what follows from Capt. Buford is of real historical value. For one thing, it locates definitely the actual spot where Johnston's surrender took place. Some histories place the'sur render at Greensboro others at Dur ham; Capt. Buford locates it at the Bennett house, four miles wos* of Durham.? (Edior. The Obsorvor ; The Story of ihe Surrender f "Our last battle was at Denton jvillo". said Capt. Buford. "where two of our company were killed?i"). C. Eison of t'nion, and C. C. Casey of Laurens. 1 belonged to the 5tn South Carolina cavalry. "On March 24th Gen. E. M. Law, now living in Florida, had been put in command of that portion of the caval ry including our regiment. There were Yankee marauders not far away. Gen. Law sent a portion of our regi ment, including my company, to stop ! them. We ran upon about two or I three hundred of them in a wo??y j place. They deployed, and there ? was a little skirmish.. While 1 was [sitting on my horse I saw a Yankee jjumprfrom his horse and take delib erate aim at some one in my diro.-*. I ticaa. He fired, and I heard the bul ' let strike with a dull thud close to ! me. and turned to see that Lieut. Ber ry Richards, my nearest comrade, who was in command of my company had been hit. He turned deathly sick; told me he was mortally wounded, and asked me to carry him to his brother, Jn.o. C. Richards and to ask his brother to carry his body back home xor burial. I put my arm around him and held / him on his j horse. We had go e a short distance I when we met his brother. The wound j ed man died three days later, or 'March 27th, and his brother carried his body home as requested. "After leaving Raleigh, my com I mand fell back toward Greensboro, tired and hungary and depending oi their own exertions to get something to eat. As an illustration of the straits to which we were put for food, I will relate this little incident: While out foraging a great big husky felloAV and I were chasing the same cl xken and caught it at the same time. I weighed only about 120, but was holding on to the chicken with all my might, when he said?and he meant it too?'If you don't let it go, id?n you, I'll kill you' and I let it ;go and went hungry. J It was about the middle of April [that the correspondence began be tween Gen. Jos. E. Johnston and Gen. J TV. T. Sherman in regard to an arm j istice. Johnston sent a communica j tion to Sherman about that date. jWhen Sherman's messenger cons;s: i ing of a Iieutentant and some potty I officers with a flag of truce, wer? J on the way to Johnson's headquar ters they came to the place where Joe Hargrove and I had been posted; one was to stay there, and the other was to conduct Sherman's messengers to Johnston's headquarters, somewhere between Durham and rlillsboro. Joe had slipped away on a foraging ex pedition, and I had to escort the I messengers. I noticed that one of ? the Yanks was riding a very fine bay i horse that he had captured from j Charley Barnett of our company only a few days before. I wanted very much to take the horse from him. but of course I couldn't. On the 17th of April Generals John - ston and Sherman, with their staffs j met in a plain little farm house, j known as the "Bennett House", with two or three rooms in it. 10 discuss ; term's of an armistice. This house | was just four miles west of Durham. They did not complete the negotia j tions that day, and met at the same place the next day, the 18th. Gen. i Johnston's escort was the 5th South 'Carolina cavalry and with him were i Gen. Wade Hampton of South Caro lina, den. J. C. Breckenridge ?>f Ken tucky and Gen. .1. H. Reagen <>f Texas, as I remember. With Gen. Sherman were Gen. Kilpatrick of the Yankee cavalry and others. While the conference w.-is going on the re spective escorts on the outside fra ternized ami cracked jokes. The Yanks were in resplendent and hand some uniforms of blue, the "Johnny! Rebs" in torn and sodden suits of grey. "The terms were agreed upon that day, the lSth. Gen. Sherman had to submit them to the government at Washington. President Lincoln had been assassinated by John Wilkes | Booth, the night of the 14 of April, and Vice President Andrew Johnson had succeeded him. He refused to accept th" terms and returned them to Gen. Sherman. "O'i tin- morning of the 25th of April. Gen. Sherman not hi.Mi Gen. Johnston that the terms ha<i been re jeeted and demanded surrender. That I night at one o'clock Gen. Johnston sent a dispatch under a Hag of truce to Gen. Sherman. This dispatch] was entrusted to Col. Rawlins Lowntles of Gen. Hamilton's Staff. Asked if he wanted an escort of cavalry. Gen. Lowndes said, 'Xo. one good man will do: I'll take Buford. On our way to Sherman's headquar ters, we came to the Yankee picket line. The videlte on the p<>si could not speak English nor understand it. He seemed at a loss what, to do. The vidette on (he next post called out to him. 'Damn it, make them dismount.' We dismounted and awaited the ap pearance of the officer who had been called to escort us. When the officer arrived we remounted and I accompanied the escort io headquar I ters. As indicating the discipline in jlhe Federal army, the vidette was i arrested and punished for'permitting Jus to get so close to him before .he i halted us. j When wo reached Gen. Sherman's ; headquarters we were treated very nicely. Soldiers were sent out to j hold our horses.-Col. Lowndes went in and I stayed out and held my own j horse. When Col. Lowndes had de livered his message and we had start - I ed back to our headquarters he said to me. 'Buford, why didn't you let that j soldier hold your horse? My reply was. *J don't let no dam Yankee hold ! my horse.' I "We had eomr- now to the end of ! things; the war was over: the cause lhad been lost, and the Confederate soldiers, conquered by overwhelming numbers turned their thoughts home ward, and many turned their faces thither also. On the 26th of April I left the almost deserted camp foi home, riding my cavalry horse, which was a very good one. With me were I recall. Witherspoon of Sumter am' Sanford Welborn of Union?perhap: others whom 1 cannot now recall. W< met up with Gen. Wrade Hampton a; jwe rode out of Charlotte.- He wai l going in the same direction and w< jrode three or foyr miles together :when he turned off into another roa< 'saying he was going to cross Yadkir I river in a bateau and his horse woul< iswim across. We. three promised hin I that we would meet him at Due Wes five weeks from that day and go witl ! him to join Gen. Kirby Smith's arm: beyond the Mississippi?the only rem nant of the Confederate armies tha had not surrendered. But before th time appointed rolled around every ! thing had gone to pieces. Kirb; j Smith's army included, and of course jwe did not go to Due West. Gen !Hampton had not surrendered: neith j or had f. Some time in the summe : j of 1865 I went down to Columbia am i took the oath of allegiance. Ger ; Hampton must have .taken the oatl j some time or other or he could no j have taken the seat in the LTn:te< ? States Senate to which he was electee ? by the South Carolina Legislature am ? which he held many years, nor th i office of national railroad com mis sinner, to which he was afterward , appointed by President Grover Cleve < land. ? When we reached the ferry ove ' Yadkin river the ferryman informo< us that the charge for carrying a mai ! on horseback across was $25 or ; ? plug of tobacco. I had a plug or s< of tobacco because I had drawn m; share along with the others, though did not chew; so I gave him a pluj of tobacco and my comrades. Wither I spoon and Welbourn paid him $2 apiece. My plug of tobacco, howeve was worth more than the fifty dol lars in Connferate money. "I reached home the 4th day o j May. Forty-five years after that was going out to Raleigh on the Rail road. When we approached Durhan I asked so all in the coach could hea: if there was anyone on board wh< could point out. the 'Bennett House. An old man stood up and replied tha he could, and when we were passim; the place he pointed out the house t< me. It looked just about as it did 4; years before except that the well sweep in the front yard was gone. "In talking with Gen. Julian S Carr of Durham. X. C, at the con federate reunion at Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, he told me he own: landn around the 'Bennett House' bu I was the only person he had eve: seen who was present at the meeting there between Gens. Johnston am Sherman. He further said tha it became necessary to cover th< house completely with corrugated iron in order to keep it from beinf carried off by piecemeal as souvenirs Gen. Carr urged me to write out m3 recollections of the Johnston surren der. I promised him I would if 1 could ever find time; so I hope you will send him a copy of your papei if you publish what I am saying. 1 might add that Gen. Carr appointee me on his staff as assistant quarter master general with rank of lieuten ant colonel, when he was first elect ed commander of the United Con federate Veterans. Gen. Brown who defeated Gen. Carr at the reunion in Birmington in 1916 honord me with the same appointment as Gen. Carr did again when he defeated Gen. Brown at Washington in 1917. So you see. l am entitled to be called colonel. The title 'captain' with which my friends have honored me^ for several years past grew on me gradually. I I was not a captain of the army' as j 'Caps Jenks' was?the highest posi 1 tion I ever reached was high private. I appreciate very highly the honor conferred on ire by Gen. Carr and Gen. Drown; but I am proudest of all of having been selected by Col. Raw lins Lowndes as his courier and escort on his visit to headquarters of Gen. W. T. Sherman the night of the 25th of April ISO") when I was hardly more than a lad. "Col. Lowndes is still living in Charleston?the same elegant gentle man. wh<nn everybody honors. 1 had never seen him after thru historic ride until I met him in Columbia 37 ! years afterwards at Gen. Hampton's funeral?the 13th day of April. 1902." Memorandum, or Basis of Agreement Made thi* 18th Day of April A. D. 1865, Xear Durham's Station, in the State of Xorth Carolina, by and Be tween General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding the Confederate Army and Major General William T. Sherman. Commanding the Army Of the United States in Xorth Caro \ lina?Doth present. 1. The contending armies now in the field to maintain the status quo until notice is given by the command ing general of any one to its oppo nent, and reasonable time?say forty eight <4S) hours?allowed. 2. The Confederate armies, now in existence to be disbanded and con ducted to 'their several state capitals there to deposit their arms and pub tie property in the state arsenal: and each otiicer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war. and to abide the action of tho state and federal authority. The num ber of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the chief of ordnance at Washington city, subject to the fu ture action of the congress of the ? *>. *?- - ""*'?'>? United States and in the meantime to be used solely to maintain peace and order within the borders of *the states respectively. 3. The recognition, by the execu tive of the United States of the sev eral state governments, on their;-om cers and legislatures taking the oaths ! prescribed by the constitution of the (United States, and where conflicting ! state governments have resulted from the war; the legitimacy of all shall be submitted to the;-Supreme ! court of the United States. .. " < 4. The establishment of all the Federal courts in the several states, with powers as defined by the con js?tution and laws of congress. 3. The people ahd inhabitants of all I the states to be guaranteed, so far as the executive can, their . political I rights and franchises, as well as their i rights of person and property, -as } denned by the const-ituton , of the j United States and of the states J*e- 9 j spectively. ' . j 6. The executive authority of--the ' government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by rea ?json of the late war, so long as they live in peace and quiet, abstain from acts of armed hostility and obey the laws in existence at the place of their residence. ? ' ?' ' ' ',s? 7. In general terms?the war to 1 cease; a general amnesty, so far as l the executive of the United: States 1 can command, on condition of the l! disbandmcnt of the Confederate t armies, the distribution of the arms i and the resumption of peaceful p?r v suits by the officers and men hither to composing said armies. Not being fully empowered by our respective e i principals to fulfill these terms, we individually and officially pledge our y! selves to promptly obtain the neces sary authority and to carry out" the above program. ? ? W. T. Sherman. Major General Commanding Arnry of United States in North Carolina. J. E. Johnston, General commanding Confederate States Army in North Carolina. The Second Agreement; Made April 26, 1885 1 Terms of a Military Convention en tered "into his twenty-sixth .. (,3.6th) day of April 1865 at Bennett's House near Durham's station, North. Caro r|lina, between General Josephs E. j Johnston, commannding the< Confed erate army and Major General W/T. Sherman, commanding the. United States army in North Carolina: 1. All acts of war on the part of the troops under General Johnston's command to cease from this date. 2. All arms and public property to be deposited at Greensboro; artdJ de livered to an ordnance officer of the United States army. "j 3. Rolls of?all officers and men.to fibe made in duplicate; one copy to be j retained by the commander of the troops ahd the other to be given to ~ an officer to be designated by General ! Sherman, each officer and man to j give his individual obligation, in-wrh> . 1 tog not to take up arms against .f he government of the United States'until properly released from ? this obliga tion. .. ? : ;3( 4. The side arms of officers, and 4heir private horses and baggage ..to be retained by them. 5. This being done all the 6jfl?.cer? land men will be permitted to return to their homes, not to be disturbed "by the United States authorities so' long as tjhey observe their obligation' and the laws in force where they may re side. . '? ? ? * ? W. T. Sherman Major General Commanding Uniied States Forces in North Carolina. J. E. Johnston. \ General Commanding Confederate States Forces in North Carolina. Supplemental Terms Military Coiirfn-"*. tion of April 20, 1865 1. The field transportation to :be loaned to the troops for their march to their homes and for subsequentjuse in their industrial pursuits. Artillery horses may be used in field transpor tation, if necessary. - 2. Each brigade or separate body to retain a number of arms equal to one ? seventh o? its effective ^strength which.. when the troops reach ^h^-jss^dt&Fs of their states will be'"disposed off as the general commanding the depart ment may direct. . 3. Private horses and other private property of both officers and men to be retained by them. 1 '?? 4. The commanding general of the military division of West Mississippi Major General Canby, will be re quested to give transporation by wa- ' ter from Mobile or New Orleans! to' troops from Arkansas and Texas. 5. The obligations of officers and" soldiers to be signed by their iriitoe- ': diate commanders. t>. Naval forces within the limits of " General Johnston's command to be included in the terms of this conven tion. 1 ? ' '? J. M. Schofield. ' Major General Commanding United ! States Forces in North Carolina. J. E. Johnston, j General Commanding Confederate States Forces in North Carolina. ' ! General Joseph E. Johnston's Fare* ' well Address to His Soldiers i General Order No. 22 C-mrades: In terminatng our offi cial relations. I earnestly exhort you to observe faithfully the terms of pacification agreed upon, and to dis charge the obligations of good and - peaceful citizens as well as you have- -, performed the duties of thorough sol diers in the field. But such a course you will best secure the comfort of your families and kindred, and re store tranquility to our country. . ? You will return to your homes with; the admiration of our people, won Oy - the courage and noble devotion you have displayed in this long war. 1 ? shall always remember with pride the -: loyal support and generous conti-.; dence you have given me. ?? I now part with you with deep re gret and bid you farewell with feel^ .;. ings of cordial friendship, and with earnest wishes that you may have hereafter all the prosperity and hap pinesss to be found in the world. Signed: J. E. Johnston. Officially Signed: General Kinlock Falconer, A. A. G.