Francis Blair's Talk With Jefferson Davis
Francis Blair’s talk with Jefferson Davis did yield a Confederate three-man peace delegate. However, the movie fails to mention a scheme, formulated by Blair during the talk, whereby the Union and Confederacy would declare an armistice and send a joint army to overthrow a French regime in Mexico. When Lincoln and William Seward met with the Confederate delegation at the Hampton Roads conference, the Confederates were under the impression that a deal could be made using the Blair scheme. Instead the movie portrays Lincoln simply telling the delegation to expect the 13th amendment to soon become part of the Constitution completely bypassing any side mentioning the Blair scheme.