The Marshall Conferences were a series of three meetings by

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leaders at

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, the capital of the exiled

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, at the suggestion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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

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, appoint a general with commanding jurisdiction over the Trans-Mississippi states, and establish more ammunition depots in the region to alleviate an arms shortage.

Second conference

The second conference taking place in August 1863, brought in leaders from Arkansas, Confederate

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, Louisiana, Confederate Missouri, and

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Third conference

The third and final conference took place in May 1865 and produced unrealistic terms of surrender which the

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rejected.

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