[rustbucket]

Wow, what a stretch - I never claimed Baldwin was present. Attending the meeting were William Cabell Rives [former minister to France, US Senator], Judge Somers of Virginia, Gen. Donovan of Missouri, James Gutherie [former Secretary of the Treasury), and Gov. Charles S. Morehead of Kentucky.

Neither Col. Baldwin, nor John Minor Botts attended this meeting.

Apparently they met separately with Lincoln. Botts reports on his separate meeting with President Lincoln where the subject of recalling the fleet and Baldwin's earlier rejection of Lincoln's proposition were discussed.

Botts' account can be found in: "The great rebellion: its secret history, rise, progress, and disastrous failure." By John Minor Botts. Pages 194-196. Source

[rustbucket]

Botts book can also be found here in one of those Google books. http://books.google.com/books?id=Vy4OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=%22jb+baldwin%22+confederate+virginia&source=web&ots=SBKu2wFkJz&sig=LWhQD237kMp2suHRRmMlBp6orH8

[4CJ]

Apparently they met separately with Lincoln. Botts reports on his separate meeting with President Lincoln where the subject of recalling the fleet and Baldwin's earlier rejection of Lincoln's proposition were discussed.

If memory serves, Baldwin was one of those that Lincoln made his 'what about my revenues' statements - separate from the Rev. Fuller's delegation.