Posted on 02/04/2025 6:10:21 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, Feb. 2, via BALTIMORE, Friday, Feb. 3.
Messrs. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, R.M.T. HUNTER, and Judge CAMPBELL, the Confederate Peace Commissioners, arrived here this afternoon from City Point, in Lieut.-Gen. GRANT's special dispatch steamer, the Mary Martin.
Secretary SEWARD was on board the steamer River Queen waiting to receive them.
Immediately upon the arrival of the Commissioners both steamers proceeded to an anchorage in the stream, side by side.
At this writing, a quarter past 5 o'clock, as the Louisiana leaves for Baltimore, the steamers are still out in the stream.
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 3.
The extraordinary conference at Fortress Monroe, which for the past two days has fixed the attention of the whole country, has come to a close.
President LINCOLN and Secretary SEWARD are understood to be on their way to Washington, and, doubtless, by this time, Messrs. STEPHENS, HUNTER and CAMPBELL have returned to the rebel capital.
What transpired at this meeting remains, of course, a secret with the participants, and all speculation on the subject is the merest folly. Imagination has in this meeting, its circumstances, and results, ample scope and verge, and conjecture in regard thereto takes here probably much the same diverse directions it does with you. That the conference will result in an immediate cessation of hostilities, is certainly too much to believe; but it would certainly be unwarrantable to predict that it will have proved entirely fruitless.
FROM CITY POINT.
Arrival of So-Called Rebel Peace Commissioners-Their Unexpected Detention at City Point-Escaped Union Prisoners from Columbia, S.C.-Change of Executive Officers in the United States Sanitary Commission-A Deserter Acquitted.
From Our Own Correspondent.
CITY POINT, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1865.
City Point was in a state of unusual excitement yesterday,
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The Peace Conference: Arrival of the Rebel Commissioners at Fortress Monroe – 2
From Savannah: Sherman’s Campaign – 2-3
Important if True: Deflection of Prominent Rebel Generals – 3
News from Washington – 3
Thirty-Eighth Congress-Second Session – 3-4
The Constitutional Amendment – 5
Capture of a Part of Mosby’s Gang – 5
The Sanitary Flour – 5
Indian Depredations – 5
From New-Orleans and Cairo – 5
Editorial: The Peace Conference – 5-6
Editorial: Peace and Slavery – 6
Editorial: Wilmington and Charleston – 6
Railroad Litigation – 6
Serious Explosion – 6
Fire at North Adams, Mass. – 6
Yeah, peace conference a couple of months before the end of the war. Lincoln and Seward met with Confederate Vice President Stephens and others.
Lincoln would not compromise on insisting on reunion. However, was willing to make some compromises on slavery. Lincoln suggested the Confederate states could rejoin the Union and defeat the 13th Amendment. Suggested partial compensation for slaves and/or gradual emancipation.
Davis would not agree to reunion and the peace talks got nowhere.
The soldiers on both sides cheered the peace commissioners, hoping the war would end.
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