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Collection: Directories and Documents > Nevada County News & Advertisments

1865 (627 pages)

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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT APRIL 29 & 30, 1865 209 inflicted upon the nation by Sherman’s strange action, is much more serious than at first supposed, and will go far to neutralize the advantages of the victories gained by him. It appears that not only Sherman’s army was made powerless, but all the troops throughout the South and West. All the troops throughout the South were ordered to leave off pursuit of the enemy. The Government is fast repairing the injury, but it may be that the rebel chiefs will be enabled to escape, or that Davis can get into Texas and rally an army. Sherman has fallen. He can never again be reinstated in the confidence of the Administration; and when the history of this war is read, those who read will sigh that one so great should fall so low. Washington, 26th—Yesterday a squad of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry traced Booth and Harrold to a barn between Bowling Green and Port Royal, near Fredericksburg, Va. The barn was surrounded and demands made for surrender, which Harrold was in favor of doing, but upon Booth’s calling him a coward he refused to do so. The barn was then set on fire. Upon its getting too hot, Harrold again presented himself and put his hand through the door to be handcuffed. While this was going on Booth fired at him. The ball took effect in the head of Booth, killing him. Harrold was taken alive. Booth’s body was brought to Washington navy yard last night. He declared his intention never to surrender, and said he would fight the whole squad consisting of twenty-eight men, it they would permit him to place himself twenty yards distant. .. . Booth was on a crutch and was lame. SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1865 EASTERN ITEMS.—Grant gave Johnston until 6 o’clock on the 26th to surrender his army. Gen. Johnston replied that if Davis and the leading General officers of the Confederacy were pardoned and permitted to leave the country, he was authorized to accept the terms. A dispatch dated Raleigh, 26th, 10 A.M., from Grant, states that Johnston had surrendered all the troops in Georgia on the basis agreed upon between Grant and Lee for the army of Northern Virginia. Johnston’s surrender includes Beauregard, Bragg, Hardee, Hoke, Hill, Wade Hampton and Wheeler. Al the paroled officers are yet within reach of the Courts.