sentences:  Although the citizens of Alamance County were not directly affected throughout much of the war, in April 1865, they witnessed firsthand their sons and fathers marching through the county just days before the war ended with the surrender at Bennett Place near Durham.At Company Shops, General Joseph E. Johnston stopped to say farewell to his soldiers for the last time.By the end of the war, 236 people from Alamance County had been killed in the course of the war, more than any other war since the county's founding.