5.  The obligations of officers and soldiers to be signed by their immediate commanders.

6.  Naval forces within the limits of General Johnston’s command to be included in the terms of this convention.

J. M. Schofield, Major-General,
Commanding United States Forces in North Carolina.

J. E. Johnston, General,
Commanding Confederate States Forces in North Carolina.

The total number of prisoners of war parolled by
General Schofield, at Greensboro’, North Carolina,
as afterward officially reported, amounted to ........ 38,817

And the total number who surrendered in Georgia and Florida, as reported by General J. H. Wilson, was .................................................. 52,458

Aggregate surrendered under the capitulation of
General J. E. Johnston ............................... 89,270

On the morning of the 5th I also received from General Schofield this dispatch: 

Raleigh, north Carolina, May 5, 1866.

To Major-General W:  T. Sherman, Morehead City: 

When General Grant was here, as you doubtless recollect, he said the lines (for trade and intercourse) had been extended to embrace this and other States south.  The order, it seems, has been modified so as to include only Virginia and Tennessee.  I think it would be an act of wisdom to open this State to trade at once.

I hope the Government will make known its policy as to the organs of State government without delay.  Affairs must necessarily be in a very unsettled state until that is done.  The people are now in a mood to accept almost anything which promises a definite settlement.  “What is to be done with the freedmen?” is the question of all, and it is the all important question.  It requires prompt and wise notion to prevent the negroes from becoming a huge elephant on our hands.  If I am to govern this State, it is important for me to know it at once.  If another is to be sent here, it cannot be done too soon, for he probably will undo the most that I shall have done.  I shall be glad to hear from you fully, when you have time to write.  I will send your message to General Wilson at once.

J. M. Schofield, Major-General.

I was utterly without instructions from any source on the points of General Schofield’s inquiry, and under the existing state of facts could not even advise him, for by this time I was in possession of the second bulletin of Mr. Stanton, published in all the Northern papers, with comments that assumed that I was a common traitor and a public enemy; and high officials had even instructed my own subordinates to disobey my lawful orders.  General Halleck, who had so long been in Washington as the chief of staff, had been sent on the 21st of April to Richmond, to command the armies of the Potomac and James, in place of General Grant, who had transferred his headquarters to the national capital, and he (General Halleck) was therefore in supreme command in Virginia, while my command over North Carolina had never been revoked or modified.