The Eighth Minnesota Regiment, which had joined Sherman on his second
march, was with him when Johnston's surrender wrote "Finis" to the last
chapter of the war, April 26, 1865. In Bennett's little farmhouse, near
Durham's Station, N. C., were begun the negotiations between Johnston and
Sherman which finally led to that event. The two generals met there on
April 17th; it was a highly dramatic moment, for Sherman had in his pocket
the cipher message just received telling of the assassination of Lincoln.
[Illustration: THE END OF THE MARCH--BENNETT'S FARMHOUSE