Johnston escaped and got into Richmond, and caused a larger list of killed and wounded than we had, General Sherman would have been blamed.

Then why not give him the full credit of capturing on the best terms the enemy's last important army and its best general, and putting an end to the rebellion.
It was a finale worthy of Sherman's great march through the swamps and deserts of the South, a march not excelled by any thing we read of in modern military history.
D.D.PORTER, Vice-Admiral.
(Written by the admiral in 1866, at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and mailed to General Sherman at St.Louis, Mo.) As soon as possible, I arranged with General Grant for certain changes in the organization of my army; and the general also undertook to send to North Carolina some tug-boat and barges to carry stores from Newbern up as far as Kinston, whence they could be hauled in wagons to our camps, thus relieving our railroads to that extent.

I undertook to be ready to march north by April 10th, and then embarked on the steamer Bat, Captain Barnes, for North Carolina.

We steamed down James River, and at Old Point Comfort took on board my brother, Senator Sherman, and Mr.Edwin Stanton, son of the Secretary of War, and proceeded at once to our destination.

On our way down the river, Captain Barnes expressed himself extremely obliged to me for taking his vessel, as it had relieved him of a most painful dilemma.