APRIL 21ST, 1865: Major General Gilmore wrote Rear Admiral Dahlgren that he had received dispatches from general Sherman that a convention had been entered into with General Johnston, CSA, on the 18th whereby all Confederate armies will be disbanded and a general suspension of hostilities would prevail until terms of surrender were agreed upon in Washington.
ALSO APRIL 21ST, 1865: USS Cornubia captured blockade running British schooner Chaos off Galveston with cargo of cotton.
--Old B-Runner
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