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General Schofield's policy when left in command Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in force Davis's line of flight from Charlotte, N.C. Wade Hampton's course of conduct Fate of the cabinet officers Bragg, Wheeler, and Cooper Issuing paroles to Johnston and his army Greensborough in my district Going there with Schofield Hardee meets and accompanies us Comparing memories We reach Johnston's headquarters Condition of his army Our personal interview with him The numbers of his troops His opinion of Sherman's army Of the murder of Lincoln Governor Morehead's home The men in gray march homeward Incident of a flag The Salisbury prison site Treatment of prisoners of war Local government in the interim Union men Elements of new strife The negroes Household service Wise dealing with the labor question No money Death of manufactures Necessity the mother of invention Uses of adversity Peace welcomed Visit to Greene's battlefield at Guilford-Old-Court-House.
The Confederate troops were mostly concentrated about Greensborough upon the railroad from Richmond through Danville and Charlotte to Columbia in South Carolina, and the line of railroad we had followed from Goldsborough to Raleigh continued westward to Greensborough.
Three days later he was starting by rail for Greensborough when word came to him from the telegraph operator that an important message was upon the wire. He went to the telegraph box and heard it.
If he retreats on Danville to make junction with Lee, I will do the same, though I may take a course round him, bending toward Greensborough for the purpose of turning him north.... I wish you could have waited a few days or that I could have been here a week sooner; but it is not too late yet, and you may rely with absolute certainty that I will be after Johnston with about 80,000 men, provided for twenty full days which will last me forty.
The direction in which Johnston would now fall back lay inland up the Neuse Valley, also along a railway, towards Greensborough, some 150 miles south-west of Petersburg; Greensborough was connected by another railway with Petersburg and Richmond, and along this line Lee might attempt to retire and join him.
Davis was in the midst of Johnston's whole army, most of which was halted by the truce at Greensborough. Stoneman, on a brilliant cavalry raid, passed rapidly from the North near Greensborough a week before, had struck Salisbury on the 13th, and immediately marched northwest, on his return to East Tennessee, whence he had started.
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