Before the war ended, "Santiago de Cuba" was the steamship that took Captain Robert Anderson (Civil War) and John George Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln, down to Cuba and then to Charleston, SC for the ceremonial re-raising of the flag at Ft Sumter on Friday, April 14, 1865. This ceremony was intended to celebrate the ending of the civil war and be the event that would be remembered at the conclusion of the American Civil War. It is Lincoln's assassination on that date that history remembers.