North Carolina Delegation

The Peace Conference of 1861

In February 1861, following the inauguration of Lincoln and the secession of seven states from the Union, a convention of 131 politicians from the remaining states met in Washington, D. C., at the Willard Hotel. They aimed to prevent civil war, and the secession of further states, by proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would protect the existence and practice of slavery, within certain parameters, by enshrining them in constitutional law. An amendment was eventually agreed and recommended to Congress, where it was not passed.

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North Carolina Delegation

This is one of the 22 delegations in the convention, accounting for 5 of 138 people who took part.

Members (5):

Name	Visualize	Details	Delegations
Daniel M. Barringer	Visualize	None	North Carolina Delegation (This negotiation)
George Davis	Visualize	None	North Carolina Delegation (This negotiation)
John M. Morehead	Visualize	None	North Carolina Delegation (This negotiation)
David S. Reid	Visualize	None	North Carolina Delegation (This negotiation)
Thomas Ruffin	Visualize	(September 9, 1820 — October 13, 1863) Thomas Ruffin, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Louisburg, Franklin County (formerly a part of Edgecombe County), N.C., September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri 1844-1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the First North Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States of America; mortally wounded in action on October 13, 1863, in Auburn, Va.; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000499]	North Carolina Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , North Carolina Delegation (This negotiation)