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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCY7_city-point_Hopewell-VA.html
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. How…
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"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 most libera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWU_taverns_Hopewell-VA.html
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 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWT_housing-several-thousand-federal-troops_Hopewell-VA.html
"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 villages...…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWS_city-point_Hopewell-VA.html
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 conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWR_the-waterfront_Hopewell-VA.html
"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 laborers-man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWQ_a-busy-port_Hopewell-VA.html
"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, negroes drivin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWP_historic-city-point_Hopewell-VA.html
"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. Prior to the Civil War,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWO_women-at-city-point_Hopewell-VA.html
"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 many different reasons as men…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWN_appomattox-manor_Hopewell-VA.html
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.