National Park Service

Petersburg National Battlefield 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.