Volume 2 / Part 4 — CHAPTER LIV.
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Invitation of General Johnston to a Conference.—Its Object.—Its Result.—Provisions on the Line of Retreat.—Notice of President Lincoln's Assassination.—Correspondence between Johnston and Sherman.—Terms of the Convention.—Approved by the Confederate Government.—Rejected by the United States Government.— Instructions to General Johnston.—Disobeyed.—Statements of General Johnston.—His Surrender.—Movements of the President South.—His Plans.—Order of General E. E. Smith to his Soldiers.— Surrender.—Numbers paroled.—The President overtakes his Family.— His Capture.—Taken to Hampton Roads, and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe.