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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.
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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 for the supply o…
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"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 bread." - Gen…
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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 Patriot News …
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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 Edwar…
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"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 City Point is locat…
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"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 the hellis…
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"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 had …
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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.1…
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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 stat…
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