City Point National Cemetery - Veteran Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

At City Point, on the James and Appomattox Rivers, the Union Army established a great supply depot for the receipt of troops and vast quantities of all kinds of war supplies in preparation for another try for Richmond. General Robert E. Lee's out-numbered Confederates fought and starved behind their slowly crumbling defenses at Petersburg. Just eight miles away at City Point, General Ulysses S. Grant built up one of the largest supply depots of the Civil War, which kept his army the best-fed, best-clothed, and best-munitioned in the field during the ten months of its existence from June 1864 to April 1865.

Grant's objective was to capture Petersburg, a vital communication center, and then to advance upon Richmond from south of the James River. Heavy siege action by the forces of the Union and desperate and stubborn defense tactics by Lee's Army of Northern Virginia characterized the campaign that brought Grant's forces to Petersburg and ultimately into the streets of Richmond.

A large Army general hospital at City Point cared for some of the sick and the wounded. A burial ground was established near the Union hospital at City Point, and many of the soldiers of the 1864-1865 sieges of Petersburg and Richmond are interred near the hospital. Following the cessation of hostilities, this burial ground became a part of the national cemetery. Other remains not originally buried in the national cemetery were recovered from other burial grounds at City Point, from Point of Rocks in Chesterfield County, and from Harrison's Landing in Charles City County.

Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Date cemetery was established: 1866 Visiting hours: Daily from dawn to dusk Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]

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