Description On a rainy evening during the Civil War\'s second May, President Abraham Lincoln and two of his cabinet secretaries boarded a treasury department ship to sail to Union-held Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
This little-known slice of the war and its effect on t.
The trip resulted in the first and only time in the country\'s history that a sitting president took direct control of military forces, both army and navy, to wage a Campaign with wide-ranging consequences.
Description On a rainy evening during the Civil War\'s second May, President Abraham Lincoln and two of his cabinet secretaries boarded a treasury department ship to sail to Union-held Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia