Lincoln instead went to Grant’s headquarters and asked to visit the Fort Stedman battlefield. Stanton: “Robert just now tells me there was a little rumpus up the line this morning, ending about where it began.”Īlthough the fight was an easy Federal victory, Robert informed his father that the military review scheduled for that morning had to be postponed.
They could hear the fight at Fort Stedman taking place just eight miles away, and after Robert explained what was happening, Lincoln telegraphed Secretary of War Edwin M. Their son Robert, who was serving on Grant’s staff, came aboard to have breakfast with his parents on the morning of the 25th. Lincoln were quartered on the steamboat River Queen near the headquarters of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Ma– An ugly incident occurred at a military review as President Abraham Lincoln continued his visit with the Federal armies besieging Richmond and Petersburg.
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