Section Xxi.--surrender Of The Confederate Armies--incidents Attending The Close Of The Last Campaign

■ At the opening of tbe spring campaign in 1H6!, the four mam armies of ilie Gonfederates Army of Northern Virginia, under General Kobert K. Jee, occupied in tlie defense or ttlcbraond and Pe,tersburg; Army of the Tenuessee, uuiier General Joaepti E. Jolinston, coiifrontinsc Sherinnn tu ttio Carolina.": Ariny of ihe Tracis Misissippi, under General K. Kirby 8Fmth, willi tiendquarters at Slirevcport, m-, uil Arrny -jf Alaliaiua, umier General Ru-.hard Taylor, principally at Mobilo. Ala. The Army of Northern Virginia surrenrteredAprüa to GeDeral raiit al Appomalto. the Army of the Tefinesee surrendered to General Sheruian April 26. Tlia Army of tha 'JVnns-MissisRippi. üavinK bad pretly miich lts own way tn 'Jï:is and Wimtórn Louisiaoa sinee BankV Ked-river Rampajjra, ne ycai belore, was exceedingly lotti u yield to tüe Government oí the Uaited Bta'.e. aod upin the 21st of April it comuiandnr issue'l au actdress to his soldiers cuntainiog iheso words: " Witb. you rest the hopes oí our Natiou (Ihe Confederacy). and upua your actioa depends tbe fate of our pnople. Btand by your colors- maintaia your discipline - be the iieans ol cbecking Ihe triumph of our encmy. and securuig the final tnumph of our cause 1" But later, when all th Confedérate torce ea.it of tbe Mississippi bad capitulated. General E Kirby Smith surrendered te General K R 8. Canbv. Meantime, his warlike uidress liail i-aused the United State aulhorines to set on foot largo expedition undr General P. H. jberidan. tor the overthrow of all enemiei lti Texas m1 Western Loiusiana. But Oeneral Sinitb flnally concJuded further resistance foUy, anrt capitulated as stated. i After tbe fall of Mobile. April 9. General Richard Taylor withdrew the creater part of the troops composing the Army of Alabama tuward the interior, but flnally, at CitroDelle, Ala., May 4, turned over to General K. R t. Canby all munitions of war, public property of a military charac)ter, and urrendared his army. At the 'saine time and place Commodore Tarrand, ol the Confedérate navy, surrendered the naval forces on the Tombigbee river. A part of these, with tome transporta, made up tbe Heet that the writer came upon sp junexpectedly as spoken of in last number. 1 a few days arrangements were made for all tbe Union troops to go to Mobile upon tbe capturcd transport. One of these was the "Southern Republic," a large Tbree "decker." It bad been the property of two brothers al Mobile, who, grew rich in Ititi A frican slave irada. A bout Mobile nvere some natives oí África who, after beiDg kidnapped, bad been brought over to this country and sold into slavery. Upou Ihe transporta were a few Confedérales dressed in ther conventional gray. Mosi of these were offlcer, and some of tliem were from Lee 's army and had got tbus far on their journey bumewarü. At last all were aboard and started down the rivcr for Mobile. The last hostile movement having beca wade agalnst the enemy, and with no more in prospect, carne a new sensatioti- the long, cruel war had at last ended. 'i'hose who have reached mature age since wartime can have do adequate realizatioa of the long days of bloody batte, anxiety and anguish, that lengthened out into weeks, months and years, from April, 1S61, tiU April, 1865. The trip to Mobile was quickly made. The river was full and the current swift; the banks were for the most part covered with uiibroken forest, some of the larger trees overhaniring the water's edge. AU the trees of the forest were covered with long gray moss that dropped from the boughs and feil over thefoliage in a graceful manuer,light,airy and beautiful as lacework. After reaching Mobile the división went into camp about tbree niles from the city upon Ui . hills. The writer's company was encamped ín the yard of one of the brothers- name forgotten- before referred to as one oí the owners of the "Southern Republic," and vvho had grown rich before the war in the African slave trade. Ths house was a large, square, plain struoture, but pleasant and home-like. Whileall active military services was at au end there were yet formal camp services to perform; umong these was guard duty. However, in this all soon grew lax, and the wrlter more than once about this period remembers waking from sound sleep the party whom he was to relieve. Two hours in the muidle of night at some lone spot drags along very slowly. When on guard under such circumstances the writer more than once resorted to counting. After learning by trial how many could be counted in a given time, it was readily ascertained, by approximation, of course, the number that would be counted In two hours; then upon mounting guard the counting of this number was resolutely entered upon and kept at til! accomplished, at about which time the approach of the relief gave cotice that the two hours had expired. This simple expedient, by fixing the mind upon the accomplishment of a certain object, served to hasten the flight of time. Some of these lonenights when on guard the only living thing seemed to be the Southern mocking-bird. Sometimes the singer would make ais presence known in some thick bush iiear by in a burst of song that in succession mimicked every bird of the forest While encamped at this place papen wer receíved con tainiig a ftll account of the capture of Jefferson Davis. Tlüs oo curred May 10, 1865, at Irwinsville, Ga. The captor were a body of men under Colonel Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan cavalry. The capture of the President of the Southern Confederacy at the time of its occurrence occasioned muchrejoicing, and removed the last vestige of Southern resistance. One day in June the writer, with two or three companions, went black-berrying in a heavily-timbered section, two or three miles from camp, situated in a low región of country in which were several swamps and havfma (To be Continued.)