Hampton Roads Conference
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The Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River
The Conference took place on the River Queen, near Union-controlled Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.
CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens had been trying to end the war since 1863.
John A. Campbell had already attempted once to broker peace between Confederates and the Lincoln administration.
Francis Preston Blair traveled back and forth between Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, relaying messages between Davis and Lincoln.
Reconstruction era
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The Reconstruction era, often simply called Reconstruction, was a period in United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges
The distribution of wealth per capita in 1872, illustrating the disparity between North and South in that period
The Southern economy had been ruined by the war. Charleston, South Carolina: Broad Street, 1865
A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union". The caption reads (Johnson): "Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closer than ever." (Lincoln): "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended."
Monument in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic, organized after the war