February 5 1865 Lincoln wants to offer $400,000,000 to lay down their arms.

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Lincoln presented his 400 million dollars plan to get to get the Confederacy to lay down their arms by April 1 1865, to his cabinet. The cabinet seems uninterested. If this deal was offered to the Confederacy was there any chance they would have agreed? By late March of 1865 some members of the Confederate government must have felt that they would probably not win the war and they might have considered the offer.

Still Richmond had not fallen by April 1st so perhaps Confederate government officials still believed the war was winnable. I doubt President Davis would have supported taking the money.
 
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