Marshall Conferences

The Marshall Conferences were a series of three meetings by Confederate leaders at Marshall, Texas, the capital of the exiled Confederate government of Missouri, at the suggestion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.^[1]

First conference

The first conference took place in June 1862, and was between Texas governor Francis R. Lubbock and Confederate Missouri governor Claiborne F. Jackson. The two governors produced three recommendations for Jefferson that were later endorsed by the governors of Arkansas and Louisiana, who did not attend the meeting. The recommendations were as follows: establish a branch of the Confederate treasury located west of the Mississippi River, appoint a general with commanding jurisdiction over the Trans-Mississippi states, and establish more ammunition depots in the region to alleviate an arms shortage.^[2]

Second conference

The second conference taking place in August 1863, brought in leaders from Arkansas, Confederate Indian Territory, Louisiana, Confederate Missouri, and Texas.

Third conference

The third and final conference took place in May 1865 and produced unrealistic terms of surrender which the Union rejected.^[3]

References

1. Holladay, Florence Elizareth (1918). "The Powers of the Commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, 1863-1865, II". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 21 (4): 333–359. ISSN 0038-478X. JSTOR 30234760.
2. "Kirby Smith's Confederacy". University of Alabama Press. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
3. Association, Texas State Historical. "Marshall Conferences". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-05-06.