3710017 The fall of Richmond, Virginia on the night of April 2nd 1865 (colour lithograph) by Currier, N. (1813-88) and Ives, J.M. (1824-95); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Confederacy??? capital resisted many Union assaults but when Ulysses S. Grant took Petersburg, President Jefferson Davis evacuated Richmond and ordered Confederate soldiers to set fire as they left. Soldiers and residents cross Mayo Bridge over the James River, as storehouses burn and munitions explode in front of the columned portico of the Confederate Capitol. The following week, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant and Lincoln was assassinated. ).