MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR BY JACOB DOLSON COX,
A.M., LL.D. Formerly Major-General commanding Twenty-Third Army
Corps_ NOVEMBER 1863-JUNE 1865 Sherman's earlier views of the
slavery question--Opinions in 1864--War rights vs. statesmanship
--Correspondence with Savannah--Letter to General Robert
Anderson--Conference with City Point--First effect of the
assassination of the President--Situation on the Confederate
side--Davis at Danville--Cut off from Lee--Goes to Greensborough
--Calls Johnston to conference--Lee's surrender--The
Greensborough meeting--Approach of Stoneman's cavalry raid--
Vance's deputation to Sherman--Davis orders their arrest--Vance
asserts his loyalty--Attempts to concentrate Confederate forces
on the Greensborough-Charlotte line--Cabinet meeting--Overthrow
of the Confederacy acknowledged--Davis still hopeful--Yields to
the cabinet--Dictates Johnston's letter to Sherman--Sherman's
reply--Meeting arranged--Sherman sends preliminary
correspondence to Washington--The Durham meeting--T