authorization from General Grant or the United States government. The confusion on this issue lasted until April 26, when Johnston agreed to purely military terms and formally surrendered his army and all Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. It was the second significant surrender that month. On April 9, Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House. It was the virtual end for the Confederacy, although some smaller forces held out, particularly in the Trans-Mississippi region, into the summer. Notes References Further reading Bradley, Mark L. Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996. . Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. . Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. . Lucas, Marion B., with Anne S. Rubin. Sherman and the burning of Columbia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021. . Moore, Mark A., with Jessica A. Bandel and Michael Hill. The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, 2015. . Smith, Mark A., and Wade Sokolosky. No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro, March 1865, rev. ed. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017. . First published 2006 by Ironclad Publishing. Taylor, Paul. Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009. . External links Government Official website of the Bennett Place State Historic Site General information Campaign of the Carolinas from the American Battlefield Trust Sherman's March to the Sea New Georgia Encyclopedia entry 1865 in the American Civil War 1865 in North Carolina 1865 in South Carolina January 1865 events February 1865 events March 1865 events April 1865 events William Tecumseh Sherman Campaigns of the Western Theater of the American Civil War Military operations of the American Civil War in North Carolina Military operations of the American Civil War in South Carolina Strategic operations of the Union Army in the American Civil War Union victories of the American Civil War