Port Royal depot
Depot, Port Royal, Virginia.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Port Royal, Virginia
- Years
- 1864
PORT ROYAL DEPOT
Union Army supply depot on the Rappahannock from May 25 to 30, 1864, as Grant and Meade moved from Spotsylvania Court House toward the North Anna and Cold Harbor. The Army of the Potomac considered it the last place on the river it could bridge with pontoons.
Then
From May 25 to 30, 1864, the Union Army made Port Royal on the Rappahannock its supply depot as Grant and Meade moved from Spotsylvania Court House toward the North Anna and Cold Harbor, shifting the depots from Belle Plain and Fredericksburg to Port Royal and then to White House. The river narrows at Port Royal, and the Army of the Potomac considered it the last place on the Rappahannock it could bridge with pontoons.
The Union navy kept patrolling and raiding the river at Port Royal into early 1865.
Now
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 9 miles from the center of Port Royal.
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