Grant's Crossing - Charles City VA
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 19.919 W 077° 06.448
18S E 313292 N 4133783
Marker is near Charles City, Virginia, in Charles City County. Marker is on John Tyler Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 5). The Marker was erected in 1993 by the Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number V-9.)
Waymark Code: WM18HFA
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2023
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Grant's Crossing
In mid-June 1864, Grant abandoned his works at Cold Harbor and marched to Petersburg, a vital rail center. A mile south of here, at Wilcox Wharf (now Lawrence Lewis Jr. Park), steamboats ferried the troops and wagons of two corps across the James River on 14-15 June. Three miles downstream, at Weyanoke Point, Union engineers built a 700-yard-long pontoon bridge in seven hours on 14 June. For three days parts of two corps, as well as supply, ammunition, and ambulance wagons, crossed the bridge in a column 50 miles long. Engineers then dismantled the bridge. Grant's attack on the Confederate lines at Petersburg failed, and the armies settled into a ten-month siege.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1993
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Department of Historic Resources
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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