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#OnThisDay | February 3, 1865 160th Anniversary The Hampton Roads Conference brought the United States and the Confederate States together aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in a final attempt to negotiate an end to the American Civil War. Representing the Union were President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, who met with Confederate commissioners Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War J