Many people said they were impressed by how normal and personable the mysterious northern leader was, after years of denigrating propaganda in the south.
But it was swiftly rejected by northern leaders as "nothing new."
But northern leaders repeated demands made at the beginning of the conflict for southern leaders to surrender.
The report came as northern leaders rejected a seven-point ceasefire plan put forward by their southern counterparts.
Although the south has appealed for the Arab League to stop the fighting, northern leaders have ruled out any foreign intervention.
By 1827 he had emerged as the principal northern leader for Andrew Jackson.
How he would succeed in transforming himself from a regional northern leader to a national leader is difficult to say.
He was the only northern leader to support William, however.
The changing alliances of the northern revolutionary leaders may appear chaotic, but the choices of these men made sense to them.
Popular feeling, too, has shifted against the northern leaders.