Grant’s cabin at City Point: it is seriously small, leaving no doubt of Mr. and Mrs. Grant’s genuine love and physical affection for each other.…
As the NPS ranger described Dr. Richard Eppes, plantation owner at City Point, Virginia — that he inhabited the very upper echelons of wealth, that his 2300-acre…
City Point National Cemetery was established 1866, according to the US VA. “Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds near the hospitals, and later they…
At Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, I had the fortune to meet F. Lee Hart, III, of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Mr. Hart shared a…
The bare, sweeping vista from the crest of Malvern Hill, and the quiet, undecorated landscape evoke poignantly the presence of those who struggled and died…
Far down below I hear the river rush, / And standing in this city of the dead, / The voice of waters seems a human cry…. The…