American History Series: The Final Surrender
General Robert E. Lee accepted defeat in early April 1865. Other Confederate armies were too small and too weak to continue the fight. Transcript of radio broadcast:
14 January 2010
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.
President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy. A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.
By that time, however, the American Civil War really was over.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered in early April, bringing an end to four years of fighting. Several other Confederate armies were still in the field. But they were too small and too weak to continue the fight.
This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Leo Scully tell the story of the final surrender of the Confederate armies.
VOICE ONE:
General William T. ShermanOne army was in North Carolina, commanded by General Joe Johnston. Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.
Sherman met with Johnston a few days later. He offered him the same surrender terms that General Lee had accepted. He said the Confederates must give up their weapons and promise to fight no more. Then they would be free to return to their homes.
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