ew lincoln was at grant's headquarters, general grant's te headquarters at city point, nown hopewell, virginia, there to nd observe the siege and he just happened to be there when the campaign opened and lee retreated and grant followed. when lincoln heard of the fall m he said i want to see richmond. so the admiral in charge of thei gun but on the james ordered the flow tillty to go up the day after the occupation. they had clearly confederate mines. swept the river for mines and got some of them, but didn't get all of them. a bit tense going upriver, and w one by one ships had engine trouble, or ran into obstructions. then when they -- they fell behind one by one and lincoln te moved to progressively smaller ships. then to the confederate barrierh across the river. lincoln insisted on continuing. he ended up, got into an d op admiral's barge, just a hat glorified open rowboat pulled bi 12 horsemen. you can imagine what the s officers of his security detail were thinking as they stood on t the deck of the bigger ship, their guards. watching the president disappean upstream towards ri