City Point supply depot
Supply base, Hopewell (City Point), Virginia.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- Hopewell (City Point), Virginia
- Years
- 1864-1865
- Today
- Museum
CITY POINT SUPPLY DEPOT
Grant's headquarters and principal Union logistical base for the siege of Petersburg. The U.S. Military Railroad supplied more than 100,000 troops from the James River docks. A Confederate time bomb exploded an ammunition barge at the wharf on August 9, 1864; the depot was running again in nine days.
Then
Grant's headquarters and the principal Union logistical base for the Virginia theater during the siege of Petersburg. The U.S. Military Railroad rebuilt 9 miles of the City Point and Petersburg line and added 21 miles of track behind the Union lines, supplying more than 100,000 troops and more than 65,000 horses and mules from the James River docks.
A Confederate time bomb exploded an ammunition barge at the wharf on August 9, 1864. The depot was back in full operation in nine days.
Now
Museum
Grant's Headquarters at City Point, at Appomattox Manor, is a unit of Petersburg National Battlefield managed by the National Park Service. The surrounding City Point Historic District is a National Historic Landmark.
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX run through Hopewell (City Point) today.
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