The Hampton Roads Conference, held between the United States and the Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss terms to end the American Civil War. Seen here President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, representing the Union, meet the three commissioners from the Confederacy: Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell. From The History of our Country, published1900.