The Carolinas Campaign ends: In Durham, North Carolina, Major General Joseph Johnston, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Department of the West, surrenders to Major General Sherman commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi.
NOTE: This was the largest surrender in the War of Federal Aggression, and effectively left the Confederacy without an army.
Postscript: Sherman would later admit that by the conduct he authorized his troops to engage in during the March to the Sea and the Carolina’s Campaign that he was guilty of war crimes punishable by death according what he had been taught at the United States Military Academy (West Point).
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References:
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
Livingston – A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
mises.org/library/moral-accounting-union-and-confederacy
William T. Sherman – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Sherman#Final_campaigns_in_the_Carolinas
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