Singleton Peace Plan
SINGLETON PEACE PLAN
SINGLETON PEACE PLAN. In the winter and spring of 1865, James Washington Singleton, a native of Virginia, was the bearer of confidential messages between President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate authorities. These messages dealt at first with the achievement of peace and later with respect to the return of the South to the Union. Singleton's mission was ended by Lincoln's death. The Confederate government's unwillingness to accept any terms other than complete Southern independence, and the Lincoln administration's demand of national reunion and slave emancipation, doomed all efforts at a peaceful resolution of the Civil War. The collapse of the Confederacy in April 1865 made such efforts un-necessary in any event.
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See alsoConfederate States of America ; Hampton Roads Conference ; Peace Movement of 1864 .