PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: The Correspondence on the Subject; The Letters of Mr. Greeley and the Rebel Emissaries (7/22/1864)

DEAR SIR: I am authorized to say that Hon. CLEMENT C. CLAY, of Alabama, Prof. JAMES P. HOLCOMBE, of Virginia, and GEORGE N. SANDERS, of Dixie, are ready and willing to go at once to Washington, upon complete and unqualified protection being given, either by the President or Secretary of War. Let the permission include the three names and one other. Very respectfully,

GENTLEMEN: I am informed that you are duly accredited from Richmond as the bearers of propositions looking to the establishment of peace, that you desire to visit Washington in the fulfillment of your mission, and that you further desire that Mr. GEORGE N. SANDERS shall accompany you. If my information be thus far substantially correct, I am authorized by the President of the United States to tender you his safe conduct on the journey proposed, and to accompany you at the earliest time that will be agreeable to you.

To Messrs. CLEMENT C. CLAY, JACOB THOMPSON, JAMES P. HOLCOMBE, Clifton House, C.W.

SIR: We have the honor to acknowledge your favor of the 17th inst., which would have been answered on yesterday, but for the absence of Mr. CLAY. The safe conduct of the President of the United States has been tendered us, we regret to state, under some misapprehension of facts. We have not been accredited to him from Richmond as the bearers

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Peace Negotiations: The Correspondence on the Subject – 2-3
Defeat of Early: A Battle Near Winchester– 3-5
Gen. Sherman’s Army: Three Assaults upon His Lines – 5-6
From Fort Monroe-By Mail – 6
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad – 6
Army of the Potomac: The Rain in Grant’s Army – 6-7
Indian Troubles – 7
The Rebels in Kentucky – 7
Department of the South: The Rebel Officers Under Fire – 7-8
The Rebels in Missouri – 8
The Rebels in Missouri: Measures Taken for Their Expulsion – 8
The Disaster on the Erie Road: Arrival of the Remnant of the Rebel Prisoners at Elmira – 8
The Prisoners in the South: A Letter from Macon Ga. – 8
Southern News: Troubles in North Carolina – 8-10
News from Washington – 10-11
Editorial: The Democratic Dilemma – The New Peace Movement – 11
The New Peace Movement and Its End – 11-12
Editorial: The Inevitable Bragg – 12
Editorial: The Enemy’s Concealment of His Strength – 12
Editorial: Gen. Johnston’s Career – 12
Gen. Wallace on Future Incursions – 12-13
Editorial: The New Call for Troops – Futility of the Effort to Obtain Blacks – 13
The Peace Movement in North Carolina – 13
The City Clerks – 13
Ritchie’s Series of Union Portraits – 13
Amusements this Evening – 13

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