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and saving our country from further devastation, and our peo- ple from ruin.

(Signed) J. E. Johnston, Oilicia], General.

KiNLocH Falconer,

Major & A. A. G. Lt. Col. A. P. Mason,

A. A. Gen'l.

Head Quarters, Mil. Div. of the Miss.

"In the Field," Raleigh, N. C., April 27, 1865. Special Field Orders, No. 65.

The General Commanding announces a further suspension of hostilities and a final agreement with General Johnston, which terminate the war as to the Armies under his command and the country east of the Chattahoochee.

Copies of the terms of convention will be furnished Maj. Gen'ls Schofield, Gillmore, and Wilson, who are specially charged with the execution of its details in the Dept. of N. C, Dept. of the South, and at Macon and Western, Ga.

Capt. Jasper Myers, Ordnance Dept., U. S. A., is hereby designated to receive arms &c., at Greensboro, and any Com- manding Officer of a Post may receive the arms of any detach- ment and see that they are properly stored and accounted for.

General Schofield will procure at once the necessary blanks, and supply the Army Commanders, that uniformity may prevail and great care must be taken that the terms and stipulations on our part be fulfilled with the most scrupulous fidelity, whilst those imposed on our hitherto enemies be received in a spirit becoming a brave and generous army.

Army Commanders may at once loan to the inhabitants such of the captured mules, horses, wagons, and vehicles as can be