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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption: The Surrender of Genl. Joe Johnston near Greensboro, N.C. April 26th, 1865
Additional Description: This 1865 Currier & Ives lithograph of Johnston's Surrender hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“After Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston considered the war to be a lost cause and sought terms of peace with his nemesis-in-blue, General William T. Sherman. This print celebrates the formal surrender of Johnston's army on April 26, 1865, near Greensboro, North Carolina.

After the war, Johnston and Sherman, both West Pointers, became friends. In February 1891, Johnston served as a pallbearer at Sherman's funeral in New York City, where he caught a cold and died of complications from pneumonia the next month.” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: August 30, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p325977
File Size: 2.129 Megabytes

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