A Letter From General Sherman

A letter írom General Sherman t Johnston, concerning the surrcnder has been unearthed, and is as follows ' Headquarters, Military Divisio OF THE MlSSISSIPPI IN THE FlEl.D, Raí eiqii, N. J., April 27, 1865.- Geuera Johuston, Coiniuanding Confedérate Ar inies,&o., Greensboro' - General: Ihere with endose 3011 copies of my Fiek Ordors No. 65, which give Genera Schofield lull and ampie povvers to carry into effect our couvention, aud I hope at your perHonal interview with Genera Schofield, you satisfied your miud of hi ability aad kind disposition towards th iuhabitants oí' North Carolina. In iddition to the points made at ou interview yesterday, I have further in struoted General Sehofield - to facilítate what you aud I and all good men de sire, the return to their homes of the offioers and men composing your army - to let you have of hie stores ten days rations for twenty-five thousand men We havo abundance oí provisions a Morehead City, and ií you send traius here they may go down with our train and return to Greensboro' with the ra tious speoiüed. Colonel Wright did ia teud to sead his construction train up today, but did not get up his carpen ters ID timo. The train, with square timbor anc carpenters, will go up in the morning o the 29th, your traius could ruu down on the road and fall in with ours of the SOth. I can hardly estímate how many animáis fit for farm purposes will be " loaned" to the farmers, but enough, ] hope, to insure a erop. I can hardly comnjit myself how far commerce will be Iree, but I tbink the cotton still in the country, and the crude turpentiue, will make money with which to procure supplies. General Schofield in a few days will be able to arraDge all such matters. I wish you would send the enclosed parcel for General Wilson, as it contaius the Orders G5 and 66, and instructions to release all his prisoners oa the conditions of our convention. Now that tiie war is over, I am willing to risk my person and reputatiou, as heretoforo, to heal the wounds made by the past war; aud I think niy feeliug is shartsd by the whole army. I also think a similar feeling actuates the mass of your army; but there are some unthinking young men, who have no sense or experience, that, unless controlled, may embroil their neighbors. If we are forced to deal with them, it must be with severity ; butl hope they will be managed by the people of the South. I am, with respect, Your obedient servant, (Signed) Wm, T. Siibrman. The last lines of this letter are but one more evidence of the far seeing sagacity of Sherman. The "unthinkiüg young mon, who havo no sense nor experieuce" have already managed to "embroil tfaeir neighbors," and the time has alinost come when we will "be forced to deal with them." and " it must be with Eeverity."