The Confederate Peace Resolutions and Negotiations of 1864 – 1865

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A PDF for reference purposes. Useful for anyone studying the CSA attempts at peace in the latter part of the war.

The Confederate Peace Resolutions and Negotiations of 1864 – 1865

As the American Civil War of 1861 – 1865 ground on into 1864 there was continuing
pressure within both the North and the South to negotiate some kind of peace settlement.
There were factions within both governments that were adamant that peace negotiations
should be pursued at any cost. There were peace overtures and the “Peace Commission” of
1861 which obviously failed. Alexander Stephens mentioned in his post-war account that
there was a proposed peace conference in 1863, which did not occur. Critics on both sides
maintained that the enemy did not want peace. This was obviously not true. But on the
Confederate side, the majority of representatives in the Congress and Senate maintained that
they were fighting for their independence and that independence would not be compromised.
Nevertheless, the peace resolutions made public by the Confederate House of Representatives
show that the Confederacy did desire peace.
What has been put together here are documents from two sources: one is the set of six
peace resolutions printed by the Confederate House of Representatives that are part of the Confederate imprints in the Rosanna Blake Collection at Marshall University. (Parrish & Willingham numbers: 745, 746, 747, 750, 788 and 817) The other source consists of excerpts from the published volumes entitled: “Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865” published by the Government Printing Office under order of the U.S. Senate in 1905. (catalog#: JK 9803 .A4)
What we have assembled here is the chronological progression as recorded in the
“Journal” with links to the images of the six peace resolutions that are the Confederate
imprints.
 
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