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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
he Union. To do this, a letter was addressed July 5, 1864. to Horace Greeley, of New York, from the Clifton House, Canada, by George N. Sandtection should be guarantied to them. This letter was sent by Mr. Greeley to the President, together with a Plan of adjustment This plng to seem heedless of any proposition for peace, and he deputed Mr. Greeley to bring to him any person or persons professing to have any pro for him or them, each way. Considerable correspondence ensued. Mr. Greeley went to Niagara Falls. Then there was, on the part of Davis's aan end to the unofficial negotiations by sending instructions to Mr. Greeley, explicitly prescribing what kind of a proposition he would recely resolved never to accept voluntarily; At about the time of Mr. Greeley's unofficial mission to Niagara, two other citizens were on a seher places in the most incendiary and revolutionary language. Mr. Greeley, in his American Conflict, II. 667, gives specimens of speeches
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
der of Richmond to the National troops, 549. the Repossesion of the Confederate capital, 550. rejoicings at Washington, and among the loyal people, 551. At the opening of the spring of 1865, the Rebellion was so shorn of its inherent strength and props that it was ready to fall. The last effort to win peace by other means than by conquering it, had been tried in vain. That effort was a notable one, as the outline here given will show. We have seen how futile were the missions of Mr. Greeley to Niagara, and of Messrs. Jaques and Gillmore to Richmond, the previous summer, in the interest of peace. See page 446, and note 2, page 447. A few months later, Francis P. Blair, senior, a venerable politician of Maryland, who had given his support to the administration, and who was personally acquainted with the principal actors in the rebellion, then in Richmond, conceived the idea that he might bring about reconciliation and peace by means of his private influence. So he asked th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
hiloh, 2.261-2.283; operations of against Vicksburg, 2.583-2.591, 608-614; 615-628; appointed to the Military Division of the Mississippi, 3.144; at Chattanooga, 3.151; operations of from Chattanooga till the battle of Ringgold, III, 159-170; appointed general-in-chief of all the National armies, 3.234. Great Britain, relations with in 1861, 1.567; sympathy with the conspirators in, 2.152; Mason sent as ambassador to, 2.153. Greble, Lieut. J. T., death of at Big Bethel, 1. 508. Greeley, Horace, unofficial negotiations of with conspirators in Canada, 3.446. Green River, Morgan repulsed at by Col. Moore, 3.92. Grierson, Col. B. H., raid of from La Grange to Baton Rouge, 2.601; expedition of from Memphis, 3.415. Grover, Gen., at the siege of Port Hudson, 2.631. Groveton, battle of, 2.456. Guerrillas in Missouri, II. 63. Gun Town, battle near, 3.247. Guthrie, Mr., amendments to the Constitution proposed by, 1.238; his report to the Washington Peace Congress,