Sherman has gotten himself into political hot…

Sherman has gotten himself into political hot water by offering terms of surrender to Johnston that encompass political issues as well as military, without authorization from General Grant or the United States government.

The confusion on this issue lasts until April 26, when Johnston agrees to purely military terms and formally surrenders his thirty-seven thousand-man army and all Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

It is the second significant surrender this month and the virtual end for the Confederacy, although some smaller forces will hold out, particularly in the Trans-Mississippi region, into the summer.