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How Did Lincoln End The Civil War?
On February 3, 1865 a peace conference was held on a steamboat called river queen in Hampton roads Virginia. The U.S. and confederate states held this conference to discuss how to end the American civil war. Abraham Lincoln meets with confederate officials to possibly come up with a peace agreement but refuses to grant any positions and ends the meeting within hours. The topics talked about during the conference are the following: be alliances with France in Mexico, slavery involved with war, surrendering, and about the south and property. Both Lincoln and seaward agreed on the issue of slavery. The only propositions that was discussed and agreed on is the issue of prisoner’s exchange. An abolitionist and an editor Horace Greely attended the conference with Francis Blair a …show more content…
Lincoln allowed Blair to meet with confederate president Jefferson Blair in January 1865 to suggest ideas that he had. Blair proposed that an armistice be forged to remove the regime of Maximillian in Mexico. He believed that this plan would solve the problem between the north and south by having the same enemy. The men who participated in the Hamptons road conference were president Abraham Lincoln, from the south secretary of state William H. Seaward, and 3 spokesmen with him representing the union from the confederacy vice president Alexander H. Stephens, senator Robert M.T. Hunter, and assistant secretary of war John A. Campbell. Also Francis Preston Blair spoke for Horace Greely and Jefferson Davis. The conference was held to discuss about a possible peace agreement. Vice president Stephens discussed the topic about military alliance against France in Mexico but Lincoln didn’t agree and cut him off from talking to ask about sovereignty. Lincoln said the south would
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