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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lx. (search)
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The famous peace conference, on board the River Queen, in Hampton Roads, between President Lincoln and Secretary Seward, and the Rebel commissioners Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, took place the 3d of February, 1865.
A few days afterward
My six months proper, at the White House, terminated, as will be seen, the last week in July, 1864. February and a part of March following I passed in Washington, and was privileged with a renewal of my previous intercourse with Mr. Lincoln. I asked the President if it was true, as reported by the New York Herald, that he told a little story on that occasion?--Why, said he, has it leaked out?
I was in hopes nothing would be said about that, lest some oversensitive people should imagine there was a degree of levity in the intercourse between us.
He then went on to relate the circumstances which called it out. You see, said he, we had reached and were discussing the slavery question.
Mr. Hunter said, substantially, that the slaves, alw
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxviii. (search)