Who during the US Civil War allowed the surrender of Confederate armies in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas?

The Union general who during the US Civil War allowed the surrender of Confederate troops in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas was William T. Sherman. He lived for 71 years after having been born in February 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He died in the month of February 1891 in New York, New York. Sherman was an American Civil War general who was called a major architect of modern warfare. He led Union forces in crushing campaigns through the South, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864–65.

General Sherman got the blame for burning Atlanta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina, for destroying the Fayetteville, North Carolina Arsenal, and for leaving a path of destruction on his march through the South during the Civil War.

Most American Civil War historians point out, "Sherman's vision of hard war brought the Confederacy to its knees, but forestalled thousands of battlefield and civilian deaths. Sherman practiced destructive war, but he did not do it out of any personal cruelty." Sherman remained in the US Army after the Civil War. When Ulysses S. Grant became president in 1869, Sherman assumed command of all US Army forces.