Lincoln, Abraham. Hampton Roads Peace Conference] A significant group of letters and other documents relating to the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, a confidential meeting held on board a steam ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 3 February 1865. The United States were represented by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, while the Confederate States were represented by Vice President Alexander Stephens, Secretary of State Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell. The conference was initiated by the Confederacy after Lincoln had written to Francis P. Blair Sr., 18 January 1865, that he could tell Jefferson Davis that Lincoln was ever ready to "to receive any agent who he, or any other influential person now resisting national authority, may informally send to me, with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country." But while both North and South longed for peace, the conference was doomed to failure by Lincoln's refusal to treat with the CSA as a sovereign nation and the Confederacy's refusal to treat with the USA on any other basis. The genesis and result of the conference are described in the archive; the individual items are contained in sleeves in a three-ring binder within a half red cloth slipcase and comprise
Lincoln, Abraham. Hampton Roads Peace Conference] A significant group of letters and other documents relating to the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, a confidential meeting held on board a steam ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 3 February 1865. The United States were represented by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, while the Confederate States were represented by Vice President Alexander Stephens, Secretary of State Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell. The conference was initiated by the Confederacy after Lincoln had written to Francis P. Blair Sr., 18 January 1865, that he could tell Jefferson Davis that Lincoln was ever ready to "to receive any agent who he, or any other influential person now resisting national authority, may informally send to me, with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country." But while both North and South longed for peace, the conference was doomed to failure by Lincoln's refusal to treat with the CSA as a sovereign nation and the Confederacy's refusal to treat with the USA on any other basis. The genesis and result of the conference are described in the archive; the individual items are contained in sleeves in a three-ring binder within a half red cloth slipcase and comprise
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