The bitter animosities that have been engendered during the rebellion will have died out for want of food on which to live, and the very course Grant, Sherman, and others pursued, in granting liberal terms to the defeated rebels, will be applauded.
The fact is, they met an old beggar in the road, whose crutches had broken from under him: they let him have only the broken crutches to get home with! I sent General Sherman back to Newbern, North Carolina, in the steamer Bat.
While he was absent from his command he was losing no time, for he was getting his army fully equipped with stores and clothing; and, when he returned, he had a rested and regenerated army, ready to swallow up Jos.

Johnston and all his ragamuffins.
Johnston was cornered, could not move without leaving every thing behind him, and could not go to Richmond without bringing on a famine in that destitute city.
I was with Mr.Lincoln all the time he was at City Point, and until he left for Washington.

He was more than delighted with the surrender of Lee, and with the terms Grant gave the rebel general; and would have given Jos.

Johnston twice as much, had the latter asked for it, and could he have been certain that the rebel world have surrendered without a fight.

I again repeat that, had Mr.
Lincoln lived, he would have shouldered all the responsibility.
One thing is certain: had Jos.