Hampton Roads Conference
Campbell was one of the three Confederate Peace Commissioners (along with Alexander H. Stephens and Robert M. T. Hunter), who met with Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward at the Hampton Roads Conference (1865) in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the Civil War.
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