DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A state historical site in Durham is marking 150 years since the largest surrender of the Civil War, an event overshadowed by the earlier capitulation at Appomattox and President Lincoln’s assassination.
Bennett Place on Saturday and Sunday marks the surrender negotiations that took place at the former family farm. The event features historical re-enactors playing the roles of Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston and Union Gen. William Sherman, along with other troops from both sides.
The commemoration marks the Confederate surrender of nearly 90,000 soldiers in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida that effectively ended the Civil War.
Johnston’s decision on April 26, 1865, not to continue fighting against Sherman’s larger army ended the war for three times more Southern soldiers than Robert E. Lee’s surrender about two weeks earlier Appomattox, Virginia.
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