The Waterfront

At City Point, cannons, food, munitions, forage, and even coffins passed through a half mile of wharves in a vast and efficiently organized supply operation. Gangs of laborers, many of them former slaves, worked constantly unloading three million pounds of materiel each day. While Confederates in Petersburg suffered severe shortages, Union warehouses at City Point held enough food to feed the Union army at Petersburg for thirty days.

Hopewell, Virginia · United States