Chapter Xviii. Transfer of the Twenty-Third Corps to North Carolina

--Sherman's Plan of Marching to the Rear of Lee--The Surrender of J. E. Johnston's Army--Authorship of the Approved Terms of Surrender --Political Reconstruction--Sherman's Genius--Contrast Between Grant and Sherman--Halleck's Characteristics--His Attempt to Supplant Grant--Personal Feeling in Battle--The Scars of War.