1. What movement did General Johnston attempt after the surrender of General Lee? What men met General Sherman's army in behalf of the city of Raleigh? 2. When did Sherman's army reach Raleigh? What event is mentioned? 3. What was done by Johnston after learning of Lee's surrender? What occurred at Washington City? 4. What is said of President Andrew Johnson? How did he act concerning Johnston's surrender? 5. When and where did General Johnston surrender? 6. Who became military Governor of North Carolina? What was his first official act? What is said of the freedom of the slaves? 7. How is the question of slavery further considered? 8. How had the slaves acted during the war? How did they receive the news of freedom? 9. What befell Governor Vance? To what office was W. W. Holden appointed? What was the condition of civil affairs in North Carolina? 10. What is said of Governor Holden? 11. Can you tell something of his life? 12. How should Governor Holden have viewed the situation? 13. What would have been the proper course to pursue towards North Carolina? CHAPTER LXIV. REFITTING THE WRECK. A. D. 1865 TO 1867. 1. When the bulk of the vast armies that had effected the overthrow of the Confederacy was marched northward and disbanded, the full extent of the ruin that had been wrought was at last realized. So many Federal troops had been collected in North Carolina that their subsistence and depredations had consumed nearly all the food in the State, and the utmost scarcity was disclosed in broad districts contiguous to the line of march and occupation by General Sherman's great armies. 2. Grief for the ruined South, the desolated homes and slain kinsmen was further supplemented by the pangs of want and hunger. Famishing men and women were forced to solicit rations of the Federal officers. Aid was given generally to needy applicants, upon their taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. 3. In the liberation of the slaves ruin was brought upon the banks and other fiscal corporations of the State, and, as a consequence, the endowments of the University and the colleges were, to a great extent, forever lost. Even the large Literary Fund, by which the whole system of common schools was sustained, being invested in similar securities, also disappeared in the general bankruptcy. 4. When the Provisional Governor had entered upon the discharge of his official duties, North Carolina was reduced to a small supply of cotton as the sum of her available means to discharge the current expenses of the new government, and even that was seized by the agents of the United States, and to Governor Holden's appeals for its release, the Secretary of the Treasury and President Johnson proved deaf and inexorable.