evacuation of the fire was mayo's bridge, as it le was burning, and as the last confederate united nations wecon fed rconfederate unions. i if any crossed after we did they need have no fear of the other world because they surely were firefroof. even though, i think, some of in these stories i think are quite dramatic, the winner for the t most dramatic has to be se lincoln's run, because just thel think of this. just think about what would happen to the secret service if they let the president do this today?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 troub