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The references were to the so-called "Peace Commission" organized by Governor Letcher of Virginia and which met from February 6th until around the 1st of March. This is quite different from the men Davis sent to Lincoln to deliver his ultimatum. Nobody during that period ever referred to them as a "Peace Commission". The Judge Brockenborough mentioned in your post was not one of the men Davis sent. In fact, those men didn't even reach Washington until March 12th. You've managed to confuse the two.

.What a pants load.

It certainly was, but on your part alone.

Nothing was confused.

Don't bother to read the posts, do you?

To your comment: “The title ‘Peace Commission’ is a bit of post-rebellion Southron revisionism, circa late 20th century.”....

You were given the following to show that even before Lincoln's invasion of Charleston, that the term was already in use, not the late “20th century” misrepresentation that you tried to make.

“Well, it seems that everyone was calling duly appointed Confederate officials desiring to obtain peace by that title “Peace Commissioners”, beginning with the newspapers. Here from the Staunton (Va) Vindicator are two uses of the term in March of 1861 regarding the Virginia Peace conference"....

Proof of your effort at prevarication.

And that is the term that was used then, and at that time, regarding the mission of those men.

No confusion, just an attempt at obfuscation by you.

Now you exert all this energy at misdirection to run away from the most damaging evidence to your truth less assertions, the following.........

Report of the Committee on Federal Relations, with the Report of the Peace Commissioners appointed to wait on Presidents Lincoln and Davis by the General Assembly. Document H Maryland State Senate ISBN: NA Price: $269.16 Publisher: Frederick: Beale H. Richardson, printer Date Published: 1861

And Here Again is another document for sale on the Internet:

Leslie's Illustrated News. 4/13/61. Front cover has the CSA Peace Commissioners to avoid a Civil War

You might want to look up this last one. It is an excellent rendition of Messrs. Crawford, Forsythe, and Roman, all waiting to negotiate peace with the new President Lincoln's government.