NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, 1865  

* Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender
* American Civil War ending events 

The top of the front page has: "JOHNSTON'S SURRENDER" "The Time & Place of the Concluding Arrangements" "Number of Men and Guns Handed Over" "Names of Rebel General Officers Surrendered" "Singular Deference to Rebel Sensitiveness".
The front page also has: "News of the Assassination in Europe" "It Excites the Deepest Horror and Sorrow" "The Surrender of Lee - The End of the Great Rebel Army".
Eight pages, printing error at the bottom of the front page causes some text loss to the Johnson report, otherwise in nice condition.

Background: The May 8, 1865, edition of The New York Times captured a defining turning point in American history, featuring front-page headlines like "JOHNSTON'S SURRENDER," "The Time & Place of the Concluding Arrangements," "Number of Men and Guns Handed Over," and "Names of Rebel General Officers Surrendered". While Lee's capitulation at Appomattox holds symbolic fame, General Joseph E. Johnston’s formal capitulation to Major General William T. Sherman at Bennett Place represented the largest troop surrender of the entire American Civil War, officially neutralizing nearly 90,000 Confederate soldiers across four Southern states. By meticulously reporting the precise time and place of these negotiations alongside concrete tallies of men and guns handed over and the specific names of rebel general officers surrendered, the newspaper signaled to a weary nation that organized Confederate resistance was functionally extinguished and the grueling military campaign to preserve the Union had reached its true operational conclusion.