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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ellsringing at midnight of that Sabbath ! Men wept andshouted for joy even before the dawn of the morning.Then came the marches of glad processions, with musicand banners, and the crowded sanctuaries with prayer andpraise. Never, perhaps, before did such a tide of grateful,jubilant gladness sweep over a nation, half of whose fami-lies were in mourning for the slain heroes. A ChristianRepublic was exultant, but giving God the glory ! Mean-while, the peerless Sherman, after a brief rest in hisSouthern marches, April 10th, the day after General Leessurrender, started after his old antagonist, Johnston. Kil-patrick, on that day, moved his cavalry out on the road toRaleigh, and next day, the 11th, the infantry started invery light marching order. The march was, however, quitedeliberate and easy, as the railroad, broken up by theenemy between Raleigh and Goldsboro, was to be re-paired. On the 13th, Raleigh was reached, and occupiedwith only a slight skirmish on the outskirts, Johnston fall-
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GENERAL GRANT HASTENS TO WASHINGTON. 551 ing back toward Hillsboro. The enemy had destroyedhis small navy-yard at Halifax, on the Roanoke, in conse-quence of the surrender of Lee. A ram and a gunboat,partially completed, were burned. On the 15th, news cameto the same place that Governor Vance was captured byour cavalry between Hillsboro and Raleigh, on the 13thinstant. After the terms of the surrender were arranged, GeneralGrant immediately left the army for Washington, withoutstopping to visit the fallen Capital, or pausing longer bythe way than was requisite for refreshment. On the 13thof April, 1865, he reached Washington, established hishead-quarters, and went to the War Department, wherehe met the President and Secretary Stanton. He assuredthem that the rebellion was virtually at an end, and thatthe Government might at once cut down its expenses.That evening the Secretary telegraphed the following im-portant dispatch northward, the first that bore to the nationthe welcome news th

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