Video: 'Ken Burns - The Civil War: Episode 8 - War Is All Hell (1865) | Ken Burns Documentary' (Apr. 4, 1865, 42:44)

(Tuesday, April 4, 1865; during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by his son Tad, arrived in Richmond today and was cheered by crowds of Union soldiers and former slaves as he toured the former Confederate capital after traveling up the James River from City Point, Virginia.