April 1865: The Tumultuous History of the Confederacys Last Month Audiobook Libro.fm

By the close of 1864 Abraham Lincoln had been reelected the Union army had taken Nashville from General Hood and Sherman had concluded his total war slashandburn march of destruction to Savannah Georgia offering it as a Christmas present to LincolnNevertheless with everything seemingly falling to pieces the South still held out hope of some sort of miracle and Davis even attempted to send a peace delegation to meet with Lincoln in the early months of 1865 On January 28 1865 as Union General Ulysses S Grant was continuing to lay siege to Lees army at Petersburg Virginia Davis sent three commissioners headed by VicePresident Stephens to initiate informal peace talks with LincolnBy February 3 however the talks known as the Hampton Roads Conference came to a stalemate as Lincoln would accept nothing less than total union while Davis would only accept Southern independence