First post, longtime lurker.
According to https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/about-jefferson-davis/chronology/civil-war, that in mid-August 1864, while touring Petersburg, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was nearly led into Federal lines. What if he was captured then? What would Stephens do? How would this affect the Election? Would the war have ended several months earlier, preventing further "useless effusion of blood"?
According to https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/about-jefferson-davis/chronology/civil-war, that in mid-August 1864, while touring Petersburg, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was nearly led into Federal lines. What if he was captured then? What would Stephens do? How would this affect the Election? Would the war have ended several months earlier, preventing further "useless effusion of blood"?