General Stoneman--Outrages--Cold-blooded Murders--General Gillam--Progress through Lenoir, Wilkes, Surry, and Stokes--Stoneman's Detour into Virginia--The Defense of Salisbury--The Fight in the Streets of Salisbury--General Polk's Family--Temporary Occupancy of Salisbury--Continuous Raiding, 192 CHAPTER XV. Iredell County--General Palmer's Courtesy to Mrs. Vance--Subsequent Treatment of this Lady by Federal Soldiers--Major Hambright's Cruelty in Lenoir--Case of Dr. Ballew and Others--General Gillam--His Outrages at Mrs. Hagler's--Dr. Boone Clark--Terrible Treatment of his Family--Lieutenants Rice and Mallobry--Mrs. General Vaughan--Morganton, 213 CHAPTER XVI. Plundering of Colonel Carson--Of Rev. Mr. Paxton--General Martin repulses Kirby--Gillam plunders during the Armistice--Occupation of Asheville--Wholesale Plunder--Dispatch from General Palmer, 225 CHAPTER XVII. Surrender of General Lee--Why North-Carolina could not have taken Measures to send Commissioners--Review--The Coal-fields Railway--Difficulties of Transportation--Provisions--The Last Call--Recreants--Privations--The Condition of the Press, 235 CHAPTER XVIII. The University--Its Early History--Its Continued Growth--The Ardor of the Young Men--Application for Relief from Conscription--Governor Swain to President Davis--Another Draft on the Boys--A Dozen Boys in College when Sherman comes; and the Bells ring on--"Commencement" in 1865--One Graduate--He pronounces the Valedictory--Conclusion, 251 APPENDIX. I.--UNIVERSITY RECORD, 267 II.--GENERAL JAMES JOHNSTON PETTIGREW, 278 THE LAST NINETY DAYS OF THE WAR IN NORTH-CAROLINA. CHAPTER I. DIFFICULTIES OF THE HISTORY--THE POSITION OF NORTH-CAROLINA--THE PEACE CONVENTION--THE MONTGOMERY CONVENTION--GOVERNOR VANCE--THE SALISBURY PRISON--TESTIMONY ON THE TRIAL. It will be long before the history of the late war can be soberly and impartially written. The passions that have been evoked by it will not soon slumber, and it is perhaps expecting too much of human nature, to believe that a fair and candid statement of facts on either side will soon be made. There is as yet too much to be forgotten--too much to be forgiven.