Grant's Cabin

From November 1864 through March 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived in a modest cabin at City Point. From there he directed Union armies in the climactic final campaigns of the war and hosted President and Mrs. Lincoln, Major General William T. Sherman, Secretary of State William Seward, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The cabin was one of 22 that stood on the Eppes property. After the war, it was moved to Philadelphia, where it remained on display for 116 years. In 1981, the National Park Service returned it to City Point and reassembled it on its original site. About ten percent of the structure is original, and it is one of the few vestiges of the Union occupation of City Point.

Hopewell, Virginia · United States