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Bennett Place the last surrender of the Civil War

Outside Durham, North Carolina is a farm where a unique event took place.  On April 17, 1865 General Joseph Eggleston Johnston and Major General William Tecumseh Sherman met to negotiate terms of surrender. 

Not long before, on April 9th, Lee and Grant had met at Appomattox and that I thought was the end of the war. I was surprised to learn that the fleeing Jefferson Davis, after the fall of…