Women At City Point

“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 as ...

Appomattox Manor

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.

Marker is at the intersection of Cedar Lane and Pecan ...

Village of Great Bridge

A Vital Link

The village of Great Bridge was located at a strategic crossing of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. This canal, along with the Dismal Swamp Canal, was recognized as being a strategically important corridor by both the Union and ...

Seven Patriot Heroes

Homes and Last Resting Places

Nearby were the homes of three Afro-Virginians who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Sgt. March Corprew, Co. I, 2nd USCT Cavalry, and his brother Pvt. Daniel Corprew, Co. D, ...

Watering Trough & Fountain

Watering Trough & Fountain

Circa Early 1900s

Memorial by Catlin Family Descendants

The carved stone drinking fountain and horse watering trough provided gravity-fed spring water during the early twentieth century, whenhorses and oxen pulled the heavy loads, people walked dusty ...

City Point’s Rails And Waterways

Tools of War for General Grant

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 ...

Old Indian Reservation

Just to the north was the

Nottoway Indian Reservation.

William Byrd, while running

the boundry line between

Virginia and North Carolina,

visited these Indians April

7, 1729. Indians were living

here as late as 1825.

Marker is on Meherrin Road (VA 35) (Business U.S. 58), on the ...

Operation Dixie

Black leaf house workers in eastern N.C.

unionized in 1946. First pro-union vote,

at tobacco factory 1 block W., precursor

to civil rights movement.

Marker is at the intersection of Franklin Street (U.S. 301 S.) and McDonald Street, on the right ...

Civil War Occupations

Threatened by Union forces to the west, CSA, who had occupied city five months and fortified hills, planned to evacuate Feb. 14, 1862. Other Federals came from north and bombarded from across the river. CSA set fire to depot and ...

Schultz's Battery

In Memoriam

Zum Andenken der Deutsch

Amerikanishe Freiwilligen

Schultz's Battery

Civil War 1861 - 1865

Battery M, First Ohio

Volunteer Light Artillery

Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio.

Erected in 1938 by

George Hemm Jr.

in memory of

his parents and the pioneer

immigrant German settlers,

soldiers and sailors of the

United States.

Their magnificent support of

President ...