﻿History 
  of 
  Durham. 
  

  

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  CHAPTER 
  I. 
  

  

  GLEANINGS 
  FROM 
  EARLY 
  SETTLERS 
  — 
  ORIGIN 
  OF 
  DURHAM 
  AND 
  

   DURHAM 
  bMOKING 
  TOBACCO 
  — 
  INCORPORATION 
  AND 
  ORGANI- 
  

   ZATION 
  OF 
  THE 
  TOWN 
  AND 
  COUNTY 
  OF 
  DURHAMi 
  — 
  THE 
  GRA- 
  

   DED 
  SCHOOL 
  — 
  THE 
  COLORED 
  RACE, 
  ETC. 
  

  

  The 
  last 
  act 
  in 
  the 
  tragic 
  drama 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  civil 
  war 
  

   transpired 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Durham. 
  It 
  was 
  here 
  that 
  

   "grimvissaged 
  war 
  smoothed 
  its 
  wrinkled 
  front." 
  Gen. 
  R. 
  

   E. 
  Lee, 
  the 
  great 
  southern 
  soldier 
  and 
  christian, 
  having 
  

   capitulated 
  at 
  Appomattox, 
  Gen. 
  Sherman, 
  on 
  his 
  famous 
  

   "march 
  to 
  the 
  sea," 
  had 
  demonstrated 
  to 
  Gen. 
  Jos. 
  E. 
  John- 
  

   ston, 
  l)y 
  greatly 
  superior 
  numerical 
  strength 
  and 
  facilities, 
  

   tliat 
  further 
  resistance 
  was 
  useless. 
  In 
  April, 
  1SG5, 
  Sher- 
  

   man 
  encamped 
  at 
  Raleigh, 
  while 
  Johnson, 
  with 
  his 
  remnant 
  

   of 
  heroic 
  troops, 
  rested 
  at 
  Greensboro. 
  From 
  Raleigh 
  to 
  

   Greensboro, 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  about 
  seventy-five 
  miles, 
  both 
  

   armies 
  roamed 
  indiscriminately. 
  Gen. 
  Johnston 
  intima- 
  

   ted 
  to 
  Gen. 
  Sherman 
  his 
  desire 
  for 
  a 
  conference, 
  and 
  an 
  

   armistice 
  of 
  ten 
  days 
  was 
  declared. 
  These 
  two 
  great 
  chief- 
  

   tains 
  met 
  in 
  consultation, 
  in 
  a 
  little 
  house 
  near 
  Durham, 
  

   which 
  was 
  then 
  an 
  insignificant 
  railroad 
  station, 
  with 
  

   only 
  about 
  200 
  inhabitants. 
  This 
  station 
  was 
  declared 
  neu- 
  

   tral 
  ground. 
  Here 
  "the 
  boys 
  in 
  blue 
  and 
  gray" 
  met 
  in 
  

   friendly 
  intercourse 
  — 
  swapped 
  horses, 
  ran 
  foot 
  races, 
  shot 
  at 
  

   targets, 
  and, 
  around 
  the 
  same 
  camp-fires, 
  told 
  hairbreadth 
  

   escapes, 
  spun 
  camp 
  yarns, 
  and 
  had 
  a 
  "good 
  time" 
  generally. 
  

   About 
  one 
  hundred 
  yards 
  from 
  the 
  railway 
  station 
  stood 
  a 
  

   two-story 
  frame 
  tobacco 
  factory, 
  owned 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  John 
  R. 
  

   Green. 
  During 
  the 
  war 
  xMr. 
  Green 
  had 
  manufactured 
  smok- 
  

   ing 
  tobacco 
  for 
  the 
  " 
  boys 
  in 
  gray," 
  but 
  now 
  Otliello 
  had 
  

   seemingly 
  lost 
  his 
  occu[)ation. 
  Stored 
  in 
  this 
  factory 
  were 
  

   large 
  quantities 
  of 
  smoking 
  tobacco, 
  ready 
  for 
  shipment, 
  

   and 
  during 
  the 
  armistice 
  the 
  building 
  was 
  completely 
  sacked, 
  

  

  