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.