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.
Alexander H. Stephens
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American politician who served as the only vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882 until his
Hampton Roads Conference
…Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, representing the Union, met with three commissioners from the Confederacy: Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell. The representatives discussed a possible alliance against France, the…
Stephens in 1865
President Davis' first cabinet (1861)
Stephens's house in Richmond
Stephens depicted on an 1862 Confederate States $20 banknote