Belle Plain landing
Port, Stafford County (Belle Plain), Virginia.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Stafford County (Belle Plain), Virginia
- Years
- 1862-1864
BELLE PLAIN LANDING
Steamboat landing on Potomac Creek that served the Army of the Potomac as an alternate supply point to Aquia Landing and a lead supply point in the Overland Campaign of 1864. Union wounded and Confederate prisoners passed through its wharves in May 1864.
Then
A steamboat landing on Potomac Creek off the Potomac, Belle Plain served the Army of the Potomac as an alternate supply point to Aquia Landing and became a lead supply point during the Overland Campaign of 1864. In May 1864 Union wounded and Confederate prisoners from the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House passed through its wharves.
Late in May 1864 the army moved its depots from Belle Plain and Fredericksburg to Port Royal, and in mid-June Grant shifted his logistics base to City Point.
Now
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 4 miles away.
Nearby
- 4 miHaupt rebuilds the Potomac Creek bridge in nine working daysMay 1862, Potomac Creek, Stafford County, Virginia
- 5 miAquia LandingUnion · Port, Stafford County, Virginia
- 14 miPort Royal depotUnion · Depot, Port Royal, Virginia
- 18 miCatharine FurnaceConfederate · Ironworks, Spotsylvania County (Chancellorsville), Virginia
- 18 miConfederate batteries close the lower Potomac to shippingOctober 1861, Freestone Point, Virginia
- 27 miStuart raids Pope's supply depot at Catlett's StationAugust 22, 1862, Catlett, Virginia