Bennett Place
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On April 17, 1865 General Joseph Eggleston Johnston and Major General William Tecumseh Sherman met at the farm of James and Nancy Bennett to begin negotiations the terms of the surrender for all troops still fighting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Their negotiations would continue from April 18th until April 26, 1865. As a result of the peace treaty, 89,270 Confederate soldiers laid down their arms and returned home. This was the largest surrender of the Civil War
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