Siege of Petersburg, Virginia Page30
Photos this page courtesy of Richard Edling, PA
   

(4-2004) Close-up Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
 
Original front door of Grant's Cabin

   

(4-2004) Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
 
Appomattox Manor

      

(4-2004) Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
 
Appomattox Manor
 
In 1861 Appomattox Plantation was owned by Dr. Richard Eppes. Though he owned a plantation and nearly 130 slaves, Dr. Eppes was not a strong secessionist. Yet when Virginia cast her lot with the South he took up arms by joining a local cavalry unit. He soon left the army to become a contract surgeon at a Confederate hospital in Petersburg. The Eppes family remained at their home until 1862 when the arrival of Union gunboats on the James River forced them to flee their home for the safety of Petersburg. Soon thereafter nearly all of their slaves left with those Union forces. When the war came to Petersburg two years later Mrs. Eppes and the children fled again, this time to her mother's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 
Appomattox Plantation was used as the offices of U.S. Quartermaster Rufus Ingalls and his staff during the siege. When Dr. Eppes returned he found his house in near ruin and his plantation nearly destroyed. Not until March 1866 with the last Union regiments gone and the property back in his name did his wife and children return home to pick up the pieces and start anew

 

(4-2004) Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
  
Appomattox Manor

     
 

(4-2004) Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
 
Appomattox Manor Parlor

 

(4-2004) Petersburg National Battlefield: Grant's Headquarters at City Point
 
Appomattox Manor Library

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