A mile north, on the site of an important Appamatuck Indian village, Sir Thomas Dale established Bermuda Hundred in 1613. The hundred was a traditional English jurisdiction of one hundred families. Dale, the deputy governor and marshal of Virginia, . . . — — Map (db m11662) HM
Point of Rocks is located two miles south on the Appomattox River. In 1608, Captain John Smith wrote abut this high rock cliff which projected out to the channel of the river. Known to all as Point of Rocks, it was severely damaged during a battle . . . — — Map (db m11844) HM
Port Walthall, which stood on the banks of the Appomattox River several miles to the south, was a major shipping and passenger embarkation point prior to the Civil War. The railroad tracks leading to the port were melted down to manufacture . . . — — Map (db m11847) HM
The mural (oil on canvas) was painted in 1939 as part of the Section of Fine Arts, Federal Works Agency, Public Building Administration. On January 31, 1939, the artwork was unveiled in the Hopewell Post Office lobby. According to tradition, the . . . — — Map (db m149564) HM
5 ► Virginia, Hopewell — A Busy Port — Petersburg National Battlefield — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
“Beyond the masts and rigging and the smoke stacks and steam of the water craft, were groups of tents, long ranges of whitewashed barracks, log huts, and shanties of every shape.....these were moving uniformed soldiers and officers, . . . — — Map (db m19620) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m185512) HM
City Point’s location at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers made it an ideal hub for the movement of men and material.
From City Point, supplies and men traveled by road and rail to the Petersburg front. Troops or equipment . . . — — Map (db m6545) HM
Patented 1635 by Captain Francis Eppes, who came by tradition in the Hopewell. Owned by the same family probably longer than any land in U.S. Shelled by British during American Revolution. — — Map (db m19616) HM
Ordered to take Petersburg, Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith directed Gen. Edward W. Hinks’ division of African American soldiers to move from City Point toward the Cockade City. Hinks encountered unexpected Confederate resistance at Baylor’s Farm in . . . — — Map (db m86247) HM
By 1860, Richard Eppes owned 2,300 acres divided into four farms on all sides of the confluence of these two rivers and held 113 people as slaves ranging in an age from a few months old to 79 years old. He hired two men as overseers and one free . . . — — Map (db m149562) HM
12 ► Virginia, Hopewell — City Point — Petersburg National Battlefield — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed
For nine months in 1864 and 1865, City Point was the nerve center of the Union war effort and one of the busiest ports in the world.
“The depot (at City Point) is the most perfect and commodious of any ever established anywhere . . . — — Map (db m19614) HM
First settled as Bermuda Cittie by Sir Thomas Dale 1613. Important colonial port. Peter Francisco put ashore 1765 was Washington's “one man army.” Incorporated 1826. Annexed Hopewell 1923. — — Map (db m19615) HM
City Point had been a port for more than 250 years before the Union army arrived. On June 15, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters at City Point just eight miles behind the front lines at Petersburg. Located at the . . . — — Map (db m19622) HM
15 ► Virginia, Hopewell — City Point — One of the World's Busiest Seaports — Four Centuries: City Point, Virginia, 1613 A.D. —
City Point had been a port for more than 250 years before the Union army arrived. On June 15, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters at City Point just eight miles behind the front lines at Petersburg. Located at the . . . — — Map (db m149552) HM
Just east of the shallow bay where the Appomattox River empties into the James, City Point juts into the water. Upon first spying the easily defensible peninsula, Capt. Christopher Newport determined to deposit his boatload of colonists there. . . . — — Map (db m19679) HM
The fort behind you is all that remains of the inner defense line built by the Union army in 1864 to protect its base headquarters at City point. With a powerful fleet of ironclads and gunboats controlling the James River and a numerically superior . . . — — Map (db m3791) HM
"The busiest place in Dixie" City Point, Virginia, played a significant role in the final year of the Civil War. General-in-Chief of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters here on June 15, 1864. Union ships sailed . . . — — Map (db m131786) HM WM
8000 — B.C. Indian occupancy.
1613 Sir Thomas Dale establishes area as “Bermuda Cittie.”
1619 — Name changes to Charles City Point.
1621 — Rev. Patrick Copeland plans to build free public school, financed by the East India Company.
1622 — . . . — — Map (db m19605) HM
8000 B.C.
Indian occupancy.
1613
Sir Thomas Dale establishes area as "Bermuda Cittie".
1619
Name changes to Charles City Point.
1621
Rev. Patrick Copeland plans to build free public school, financed by the . . . — — Map (db m149556) HM
City Point…tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert Black, The Harrisburg . . . — — Map (db m19612) HM
The Yankee Soldier met Miss Wiseman at the town well – and married her after the war.
The Wiseman family had settled in City Point many years before Mary Catherine Wiseman married Frederick Belch in 1865. He was a Yankee soldier bivouacked . . . — — Map (db m41498) HM
City Point...tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert Black, The Harrisburg PA . . . — — Map (db m149553) HM
The Yankee Soldier met Miss Wiseman at the town well – and married her after the war.
The Wiseman family had settled in City Point many years before Mary Catherine Wiseman married Frederick Belch in 1865. He was a Yankee soldier . . . — — Map (db m149546) HM
The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 22nd regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT) seized this point on May 5, 1864, in advance of Union Gen. Benjamin Butler's force sailing up the James River. As the USCTs landed here, . . . — — Map (db m149551) HM
(shaft)
Dedicated to the glory of God in memory of our Confederate soldiers who fought in the War Between the States 1861-1865
Erected by the City Point Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy 1949
(base)
Standing . . . — — Map (db m25011) HM
In loving memory
Cpl Philip R Smith
Wood Co Williamstown W VA
Enlisted Aug 28 1862
Co E 11th Regiment Vol Inf
Wounded Mar 31 1865 Hatcher's Run VA
Died in Pt of Rocks Hosp MD May 17 1865 — — Map (db m149566) WM
“I think this is a very good place with the exception of too many lice.” - Stephen P. Chase, 86th New York Volunteers. Lice may have been the only problem the staff of the Depot Field Hospital could not handle. The largest of . . . — — Map (db m14597) HM
"At first we lived in tents, but later, when my husband became commander of the post, I lived most comfortably in a house...." - Septima M. Collis
The house Septima Collis lived "most comfortably" in during the last months of the . . . — — Map (db m19607) HM
"At first we lived in tents, but later, when my husband became commander of the post, I lived most comfortably in a house...." - Septima M. Collis
The house Septima Collis lived "most comfortably" in during the last months of the . . . — — Map (db m149563) HM
General Grant’s headquarters at Appomattox Manor 1864-65 during the siege of Petersburg and Richmond. President Lincoln spent 3 weeks in City Point during April, 1865. — — Map (db m3797) HM
Welcome
You are about to enter the area where General Ulysses S. Grant had his headquarters throughout the final nine months of the American Civil War. You will also be walking on the same grounds as President Abraham Lincoln when he . . . — — Map (db m149558) HM
From November 1864 through March 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived in this modest cabin. From here he directed Union armies in the climactic final campaigns of the war and hosted some of the notable figures of the era: President and Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m3798) HM
“It must once have been a quite pretty place, and consisted of a large number of scattered private houses, several of them very good ones.” Col. Theodore Lyman, USA, June 16, 1864
The village of City Point dates to 1613. . . . — — Map (db m19619) HM
“To a civilian, a camp is always a sad-looking sight – men living on the ground like animals, in the mud, under the rain which penetrates the tents, surrounded by thick and acrid smoke of burning wood. Army camps are wild and primitive . . . — — Map (db m19623) HM
"To a civilian, a camp is always a sad-looking sight — men living on the ground like animals, in the mud, under the rain which penetrates the tents, surrounded by the thick and acrid smoke of burning wood. Army camps are wild and primitive . . . — — Map (db m149547) HM
Hurricane Isabel caused a storm surge at City Point on September 18, 2003. Due to a combination of tropical storm winds and reversing high tides, river levels at City Point rose to 13 feet 10 inches above flood stage resulting in the total . . . — — Map (db m19757) HM
In honor of those who gave the Ultimate Sacrifice in service to the United States of America and the families they left behind. The sacrifice will not be forgotten. — — Map (db m149565) WM
of Roanoke. Great American stateman and orator, born 1773 at "Cawson's", nearby on Appomattox River, home of his maternal grandfather Theodoric Bland St. — — Map (db m30243) HM
"Oh! father, it would make your blood run cold to see the fights...War is awful." - James Nugent, City Point, April 27, 1865
In the closing months of the Civil War, a young Wisconsin college student was drafted and soon saw combat in . . . — — Map (db m19609) HM
"Oh! father, it would make your blood run cold to see the fights... War is awful." – James Nugent, City Point, April 27, 1865
In the closing months of the Civil War, a young Wisconsin college student was drafted and soon saw . . . — — Map (db m149549) HM
Abandoned on the wharf at City
Point, now Hopewell, in 1765, he was
taken as a small boy to Buckingham
County, where he grew to gigantic
size. Enlisting at 16 he served
under Washington with distinction
in the North. Later in the South . . . — — Map (db m32808) HM
“I’ve noticed that that band always begins its noise just about the time I am sitting down to dinner and want to talk.” – General U.S. Grant, City Point, Virginia
Earthworks had been thrown across the neck of land . . . — — Map (db m19610) HM
Confederate Army Co. C, 1st Regt. Ark Cav.
Born Germany 1829, a yr. in POW Camp Douglas
Released May 1865, death date unknown
Pvt. Jacob Smith
Union Army, Co. G., 1st Regt. W. VA. Cav.
Born Williamston, W. VA. Wood Co. June 1, 1843 . . . — — Map (db m149567) HM WM
The Quartermaster Department was responsible for the transportation of the Army, storage and transportation of supplies, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, horses, forage, fuel, maintenance of buildings and repair of equipment.
Captain . . . — — Map (db m19611) HM
The Quartermaster Department was responsible for the transportation of the Army, storage and transportation of supplies, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, horses, forage, fuel, maintenance of buildings and repair of equipment.
Captain . . . — — Map (db m149550) HM
Prior to the Civil War, Dr. Eppes commanded his slaves to not get drunk, steal, commit adultery, damage property, nor attack him, the overseers, or each other. The enslaved people resisted by stealing, feigning illness, breaking tools, and at . . . — — Map (db m149560) HM
During the Civil War this church served as a signal station for both the Confederacy and the Union. On May 5, 1864 Col. Samuel A. Duncan’s brigade of United States Colored Troops (4th, 5th, and 6th U.S.C.T.) occupied City Point and the signal . . . — — Map (db m19604) HM
During the Civil War this church served as a signal station for both the Confederacy and the Union. On May 5, 1864 Col. Samuel A. Duncan's brigade of United States Colored Troops (4th, 5th, and 6th U.S.C.T.) occupied City Point and this signal . . . — — Map (db m149544) HM
This bell originally hung on a heavy oak frame in the church yard for many years. It was purchased for $84 on November 30, 1843 with money received from a fair the women of St. John's held on July 26, 1843. — — Map (db m149530) HM
The structure before you was one of three taverns which existed in City Point at the time of the Civil War. It was probably constructed in the eighteenth century. On June 15, 1864 the United States Christian Commission established its offices in . . . — — Map (db m19624) HM
The structure before you was one of three taverns which existed in City Point at the time of the Civil War. It was probably constructed in the eighteenth century. On June 15, 1864 the United States Christian Commission established its offices in . . . — — Map (db m149548) HM
(north face)
Sacred
to the
Lamented Dead
of
The Army
of the James.
(south face)
Erected
by the direction of
Maj. Genl. B.F. Butler.
George Suckley.
Surg. U.S. Vol.
Colonel and Medical Director
H.B. . . . — — Map (db m24826) WM
“It was a pen of filth and vermin.” – William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent
The Bull Ring was the Union provost Marshal’s prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged with desertion, . . . — — Map (db m19602) HM
"It was a pen of filth and vermin."
– William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent
The Bull Ring was the Union Provost Marshal's prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged with . . . — — Map (db m149543) HM
Across the cove from you, on the site of the modern hospital, stood the largest of the Union hospitals at City Point. The Depot Field Hospital covered 200 acres and could take care for as many as 10,000 patients. When Abraham Lincoln visited the . . . — — Map (db m6546) HM
“Let them surrender and go home, they will not take up arms again. Let them all go, officers and all, let them have their horses to plow with, and, if you like, their guns to shoot crows. Treat them liberally . . . I say, give them the . . . — — Map (db m19658) HM
“Let them surrender and go home, they will not take up arms again. Let them all go, officers and all, let them have their horses to plow with, and, if you like, their guns to shoot crows. Treat them liberally...I say, give them the . . . — — Map (db m149554) HM
60 ► Virginia, Hopewell — The Waterfront — Petersburg National Battlefield — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed
“Everything is as perfectly arranged as in Boston.” - Pvt. R.G. Carter 22nd Massachusetts Infantry
Cannons, food, munitions, forage, even coffins-the list of goods that passed onto the waterfront before you seemed endless. Gangs of . . . — — Map (db m19621) HM
“After breakfast I mounted and rode...to look at the Bake House just completed. It will turn out 100,000 rations in 24 hours. Every thing is on a grand scale and of the most convenient & Economical character. They make most excellent . . . — — Map (db m19613) HM
"After breakfast I mounted and rode...to look at the Bake House just completed. It will turn out 100,000 rations in 24 hours. Every thing is on a grand scale and of the most convenient & economical character." – General Marsena Patrick, . . . — — Map (db m149529) HM
This peninsula separated two chiefdoms subject to Powhatan, the Weyanock and the Appomattuck. John Smith's map shows the Appomattuck people, whom Christopher Newport described as initially unfriendly, living in this vicinity. He told of a . . . — — Map (db m19680) HM
On Memorial Day 1921, Hopewell American Legion Post 80 dedicated the Commonwealth of Virginia’s first tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice during World War I. The monument now honors Hopewell’s fallen heroes from succeeding wars and . . . — — Map (db m17643) HM
“… a very pretty, large white house situated on a hill that sloped to the river; with pretty fruit and shade trees scattered over the lawn.” - Emma Wood Richardson Weston Manor provided a safe haven for young Emma Wood and her family during . . . — — Map (db m14586) HM
“It was a nervous place for a woman; but I endured it, rahter feeling a kind of enthusiasm in the nearness to danger and death.” - Sarah Palmer, Ninth Corps Hospital Nurse
Women decided to come to City Point for . . . — — Map (db m19618) HM
"It was a nervous place for a woman; but I endured it, rather feeling a kind of enthusiasm in the nearness to danger and death."
– Sarah Palmer, Ninth Corps Hospital Nurse
Women decided to come to City . . . — — Map (db m149545) HM
This well-known colonial church's architectural form and detail is typical of early and mid-18th-century Virginia churches. Located half a mile south, the building has Flemish-bond brickwork, modillion cornice, and a gracefully splayed gable roof. . . . — — Map (db m30241) HM
Richard Bland (1710-1776), statesman and son of Richard and Elizabeth Randolph Bland of Jordan's Point, represented Prince George County in the House of Burgesses from 1742 to 1776. Between the 1750s and 1774, Bland played a leading role through . . . — — Map (db m18748) HM
Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New World's . . . — — Map (db m18749) HM
