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Who considered the terms of surrender negotiated by Sherman in April 1865 too generous?
U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
President Abraham Lincoln
General Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
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U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton considered the terms of surrender negotiated by Sherman in April 1865 too generous. As a result, General Grant was ordered to modify them.
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