PRESIDENT DAVIS APPOINTS STEPHENS TO REPRESENT SOUTH JANUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH IN EIGHTEEN SIXTY-FIVE The call for peace negotiations had been in progress since the beginning of the War for Southern Independence. Yet for years it was overlooked as having no possibility. As the year of 1864 draws to an end, and 1865 was before them, the glimmer of a hope would be revived. On the 28th of January in 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis will appoint his second in command to represent the Confederacy in a peace conference with Lincoln. Joining Vice President Alexander Stephens was Robert M T Hunter who was now the president pro tempore of their Senate and the Confederate Assistant Secretary of War, John A Campbell. These men would do their best to represent the Confederate States of America. The negotiations were very tense and lasted for only a few hours. The men representing the Confederacy left these meetings realizing that their options were extremely limited. They would immediately give a report to Davis who was in Richmond awaiting their opinions. REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF OUR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE Please add any comments about this fact to the list you are on. Should you have some additional comments or historical material, please send those to the list you are a member of. This has been posted to generate list activity. LIST OWNER AND MODERATOR : glenn