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I mean. Even presuming that Lincoln and Davis were in favour of it (and Davis wasn't), by that same account Lincoln's entire cabinet refused it, which makes sense when you consider that neither side's war aims were achieved by it. The South wanted independence; they'd fought for four bloody...

By 1865 the war had definitively turned from a mundane political conflict into the latter-day equivalent of a Crusade and the South had no real position from which to negotiate. I don't see this peace proposal being accepted at all. IMO the only option the Confed. has for surviving is an...