...e. This is also, in my opinion, a great mistake. As is well known, President Lincoln and Secretary Seward, on the morning of the 3d of February, 1865, met on board a steamer at Fortress Monroe, Messrs. Alexander H. Stephens , R. M. T. Hunter and John A. Campbell, who had been appointed commissioners by President Davis. The object of the conference was to ascertain upon what terms and in what way the war could be termin...