Here news was received of the negotiations for the surrender of Johnston's army.
Wilson belonged to the military division commanded by Sherman, and of course was bound by his terms.

This stopped all fighting.
General Richard Taylor had now become the senior Confederate officer still at liberty east of the Mississippi River, and on the 4th of May he surrendered everything within the limits of this extensive command.
General E.Kirby Smith surrendered the trans-Mississippi department on the 26th of May, leaving no other Confederate army at liberty to continue the war.
Wilson's raid resulted in the capture of the fugitive president of the defunct confederacy before he got out of the country.

This occurred at Irwinsville, Georgia, on the 11th of May.

For myself, and I believe Mr.
Lincoln shared the feeling, I would have been very glad to have seen Mr.
Davis succeed in escaping, but for one reason: I feared that if not captured, he might get into the trans-Mississippi region and there set up a more contracted confederacy.

The young men now out of homes and out of employment might have rallied under his standard and protracted the war yet another year.