City Point, Va.

Scene of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair with his arm resting on a table. He is wearing a top hat.The president traveled from Washington to General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Armies headquarters in City Point, Virginia, at the end of March 1865. (This city is now known as Hopewell.) Lincoln waited there for news from General Grant that he had taken Petersburg and defeated the Confederate armies led by General Robert E. Lee. During this tense time, Lincoln was aboard the River Queen, a ship docked outside City Point. While on the ship, he had a dream. He dreamt that he was in the White House and walked in on a group of mourners. When he asked a soldier who had died, the soldier replied, "the President.