These leaders attended The Hampton Roads Conference.
The Hampton Roads Conference of February 3, 1865 was attended by President Abraham Lincoln and the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, in an attempt to end the American Civil War. The four-hour meeting aboard the Union steamboat River Queen anchored in Hampton Roads in Virginia, also included Lincoln?s Secretary of State, William H. Seward, Confederate Assistant Secretary of War John Campbell and Senator R.M.T. Hunter. Lincoln?s peace offer required rebel states to return to the Union, accept the freedom of their slaves and to disband their army. Even though military defeat was imminent, the Confederate representatives did not have the authority to accept any peace offer without a guarantee of independence for the Confederacy, therefore, no agreement was reached.
