Cabin interior at Bennett Place, also known as Bennett Farm, a North Carolina Historic Site in Durham County

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This is unlike other, similar rural farms in the area as it was the site of the largest surrender of Confederate soldiers ending the U.S. Civil War, on April 26, 1865. The agreement disbanded all active Confederate forces in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, totaling 89,270 soldiers.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7).

Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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