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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BENNVC_180208_008.JPG: Welcome to Bennett Place The Importance of Transportation to Bennett Place
2. BENNVC_180208_018.JPG: Yeoman Farmers The Bennett Name
3. BENNVC_180208_025.JPG: Holy Bible that belonged to Nancy Bennett
4. BENNVC_180208_030.JPG: The Bennett Family
5. BENNVC_180208_037.JPG: A Call to Arms
6. BENNVC_180208_041.JPG: United States Secession 1860-1861
7. BENNVC_180208_043.JPG: The Hardships of War
8. BENNVC_180208_046.JPG: Troubles for the Confederacy
9. BENNVC_180208_054.JPG: Ruins of rolling mill and cars destroyed by Sherman's troops on evacuation of Atlanta, Ga., 1864
10. BENNVC_180208_057.JPG: Ruins seen from the Circular Church, Charleston, SC, 1865
11. BENNVC_180208_061.JPG: Sherman in North Carolina
12. BENNVC_180208_067.JPG: "The Peacemakers" painting by George P.A. Healy
13. BENNVC_180208_071.JPG: Occupied Raleigh
14. BENNVC_180208_078.JPG: Governors Mansion abandoned after the war
15. BENNVC_180208_085.JPG: Eye of Surrender
16. BENNVC_180208_088.JPG: "Furling the Flag" by Richard Norris Brooke, 1872
17. BENNVC_180208_096.JPG: Campaign Field Desk Used by Capt. Orange Sackett, Jr., quartermaster for the 136th NY State Volunteers, 20th Army Corps, part of the Union forces encamped in Raleigh during the surrender negotiations at Bennett Place. Portable desks were used by both Union and Confederate officers and clerks. The paperwork and contents are original.
18. BENNVC_180208_103.JPG: Model 1850 Foot Officer's Sword with Scabbard Used by Capt. Orange Sackett, Jr., quartermaster for the 130th NY State Volunteers, 20th Army Corps, part of the Union forces involved in the surrender at Bennett Place, inscribed Steel, iron, brass, wood, leather; West Chelmsford, Mass.; 1862.
19. BENNVC_180208_110.JPG: Half-Spanish Style Saddle
20. BENNVC_180208_116.JPG: Lincoln's Assassination
21. BENNVC_180208_122.JPG: Cavalry Frock Coat
22. BENNVC_180208_143.JPG: The First Meeting by Dan Nance, 2010
23. BENNVC_180208_158.JPG: Regimental Flag (reproduction)
24. BENNVC_180208_161.JPG: The First Meeting
25. BENNVC_180208_168.JPG: The Initial Surrender
26. BENNVC_180208_182.JPG: Rejection of Terms
27. BENNVC_180208_187.JPG: The Final Surrender
28. BENNVC_180208_194.JPG: Terms of Surrender
29. BENNVC_180208_204.JPG: The End of War
30. BENNVC_180208_215.JPG: Greensboro in Turmoil
31. BENNVC_180208_223.JPG: The Cost of War
32. BENNVC_180208_229.JPG: Prosthetic leg
33. BENNVC_180208_232.JPG: Reunification?
34. BENNVC_180208_238.JPG: William Deacy, sculptor of the monument stated, "Unity became fixed in my mind as the keynote theme of my design. In order to have unity you must first have division."
35. BENNVC_180208_242.JPG: Dedication of the Unity Monument at Bennett Place, 1923
36. BENNVC_180208_243.JPG: United Confederate Veterans Uniform
37. BENNVC_180208_251.JPG: Top Hat with Grand Army of the Republic Insignia
38. BENNVC_180208_257.JPG: The Birth of Durham
39. BENNVC_180208_266.JPG: Preservation
40. BENNVC_180208_276.JPG: The Cavalry at Bennett Place
41. BENNVC_180208_285.JPG: General Judson Kilpatrick, commander of Sherman's cavalry forces
42. BENNVC_180208_289.JPG: Remembering the War
43. BENNVC_180208_293.JPG: Col. Robert F. Webb Camp UCV, Durham, NC, February 26, 1910
44. BENNVC_180208_296.JPG: North Carolina Confederate Veterans, Gettysburg, PA, 1913
45. BENNVC_180208_302.JPG: The Dawn of Peace
46. BENNVC_180208_322.JPG: Smoking Cap
Wikipedia Description: Bennett Place
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bennett Place, the popular name for the farmhouse in Durham, North Carolina, owned by James and Nancy Bennett (alternatively Bennitt), was the site of the largest surrender of troops during the American Civil War, on April 26, 1865.

History:

After General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, he turned north through the Carolinas for the Carolinas Campaign. Confederate President Jefferson Davis met General Joseph E. Johnston (who had spent the winter in Hillsborough, North Carolina) in Greensboro, North Carolina, while Sherman had stopped in Raleigh. Sherman offered an armistice on April 17 and Johnston, whose army was vastly overmatched and recently defeated at the Battle of Bentonville, agreed to meet to discuss terms of surrender. Johnston traveling east from Hillsborough and Sherman traveling west from Raleigh along the Hillsborough Road, met half-way in Durham three times (April 17th, 18th and 26th) in the farmhouse located seven miles from Durham Station before they agreed upon surrender terms.

Surrender:

The difficulty in reaching an agreement lay in part in Johnston's desire for more than the purely military surrender that Sherman offered. His original terms matched those offered by Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, while Johnston insisted on resolutions of political issues such as the reestablishment of state governments after the war. General Sherman, in keeping with Lincoln's stated wishes for a compassionate and forgiving end to the war, agreed on terms of surrender that included the political issues. However, Union officials in Washington, angered over the recent assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, turned them down in favor of purely military terms. In response, Jefferson Davis ordered Johnston to disband his infantry and escape with his mounted troops, but Johnston disobeyed his orders and agreed to meet General Sherman again at the Bennett Farmhouse on April 26th. There they signed the new surrender terms, which ended the war for 90,000 men in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

Present day:

Currently, Bennett Place is a registered historic site located in Durham, North Carolina. The buildings presently on the site are similar in style and date to the originals and were moved there in the 1960s. The originals burned in 1921, leaving only the original chimney and foundation. The site is also home to a memorial museum, guided tours and a yearly reenactment of the surrender.
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