On December 30th, Francis Preston Blair, Sr. --a native of Abingdon, one of the founders of the Republican Party, and supporter of Lincoln, received permission from the president to travel to Richmond for a visit with Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Blair suggested his hopes of submitting "...to your consideration ideas which...may turn to good & possibly bring practical results that may not only repair all the ruin the war has brought upon the Nation but contribute to...the welfare of other nations that have suffered from it."
As the year ended, Blair was awaiting a reply from Davis.
It is too bad that the South didn't surrender then as the war was already lost by now. Sherman's march had clearly shown he Confederacy as being unable to defend itself any longer.
--Old Secesh
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