Photo of the Day

No. 545

a Lincoln story from Gen. U.S. Grant’s autobiography

Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia, during the nine-month seige of Petersburg, 1864-'65. The encampment was built on the front lawn of a prominent local doctor. Left: Grant, center, with his advisors.

“On the last of January, 1865, peace commissioners from the so-called Confederate States presented themselves on our lines around Petersburg, and were immediately conducted to my headquarters at City Point.”

“They proved to be Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy [and another].”

Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. He is seated on the right in this image of the Confederate cabinet.

“It …