Our One Common Country (67 page)

Senator Robert M. T. Hunter before the war
Library of congress

Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens
Library of congress

The Confederate Executive Mansion
Library of congress

The depot at City Point
National Archives

Grant's City Point office and residence were in the large cabin on the left. The house he assigned to his quartermaster is in the near background on the right.
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Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
National Archives

The City Point waterfront
National Archives

Major Thomas Eckert
Library of congress

Fort Monroe and the adjoining anchorage at Hampton Roads (a contemporary postcard)

The
River Queen
The Steamship Historical Society Archives, www.ssha.org

The ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, after Sherman captured the city
National Archives

A view from the James River of the burned-out district of Richmond, with the pillared Confederate capitol building above it
National Archives