Civil War City Point: 1864-1865 Period of Significance Landscape Documentation
2009. Civil War City Point: 1864-1865 Period of Significance Landscape Documentation. National Park Service
The purpose of this research and analysis is to compile historic documentation (i.e. maps, photographs, painting, contemporary accounts, and diary entries) that pertains to the 1864-65 cultural landscape of Grant’s Headquarters at City Point in order to understand the appearance of the landscape at that time. This compilation of data from the park unit’s Period of Significance also includes any evidence of physical features that existed on the landscape prior to May 1864 that would have survived General Grant’s occupation at City Point. The GIS base data were created utilizing all currently known relevant historical documents and additional information from archeological and geophysical fieldwork (this includes the use of ground penetrating radar) to position missing structures, circulation patterns, and vegetation on the landscape, in order to depict in map format how Grant’s Headquarters at City Point appeared from June 1864 through April 1865. This historic landscape mapping effort is the work of three combined park disciplines: history, archeology, and geographic information systems, as well as other park personnel site knowledge.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 2009-07
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , PETE
- Keywords
- City Point, Civil War, Confederates, corps, ehistory, Features, History, Jerusalem Plank, Landscape, Maps, Military, Park, Petersburg, Purpose, Railroad, Robert E. Lee, union