INT. GRANT'S TELEGRAPH ROOM AT CITY POINT - AFTERNOON

Grant stands with Robert at the balcony rail, waiting.

           SERGEANT

James Brooks...nay.

On a nearby board, a large map has been tacked backwards; on its reverse side, the count is being scrawled by an officer,who marks off the votes in quintiles in columns marked YEA and NAY.

SERGEANT AT ARMS Josiah Grinnell...yea. Meyer Straus...