City Point

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

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 ...

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 ...

Quartermaster Repair Shops

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 Edward J. Strang was in charge of the repair ...

Pulaski Legion Memorial

Little Egg Harbor Massacre

This tablet erected by the Society of Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey to commemorate the massacre of a portion of the legion commanded by Brigadier General the Count Casimir Pulaski of the Continental Army in ...

Porter House

“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 upon which ...

On This Spot

On This Spot.

On September 18, 1781,

Adam Poe and Andrew

Poe while freeing

white captives,

engaged in combat

with a war party of

the Wyandott tribe

and killed the sons of

the Wyandott Chief.

Marker is at the intersection of West Virginia Route 2 and Ferndale Road (County Route ...

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 ...

Dr. Peter Eppes House

"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 ...

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 ...

Capture of the "Ohio" and "Somers"

Prise des Goelettes "Ohio" et "Somers"

On the night of 12 August 1814, as a prelude to a British attack on Fort Erie, an expedition was mounted against three armed American schooners anchored off the fort. Captain Alexander Dobbs, R.N., embarked ...