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Hampton Roads Conference
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Hampton Roads Conference
The
Hampton Roads Conference
was a peace conference held between the
United States
and the
Confederate States
on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat
River Queen
in
Hampton Roads
,
Virginia
, to discuss terms to end the
American Civil War
. President
Abraham Lincoln
and Secretary of State
William H. Seward
, representing the Union, met with three commissioners from the Confederacy: Vice President
Alexander H. Stephens
, Senator
Robert M. T. Hunter
, and Assistant Secretary of War
John A. Campbell
.
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