The surrender of Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at the Bennett farm outside Durham, N.C., on April 26, 1865, is remembered for terms that prompted a negative reaction by officials in Washington and an intervention by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. In the initial meeting on April 17 that lead to the rejected surrender terms, Sherman told Johnston that Lincoln had been assassinated. Here's how the two men described the moment in their respective memoirs.

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