During the siege of Petersburg General Grant's headquarters was at City Point, Virginia, eight miles behind Union lines. A small port town at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers, City Point had been connected to Petersburg by railroad prior to the war. Its strategic position next to the railroad bed and the rivers offered Grant easy access to points along the front, as well as good transportation and communications with Fort Monroe, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. When he arrived at City Point on June 15, 1864, Grant established his headquarters in a tent on the east lawn of Dr. Richard Eppes' plantation, known as Appomattox.

Eppes favored preservation of the union providing that southern rights could be protected. At the time of the Civil War he was married, had a family and owned nearly 130 slaves and 2,300 acres. 

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived in this cabin during the siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. The cabin is of the stockade pattern, the logs being inserted perpendicularly in the ground. He was visited here by President Lincoln and other government officials.

Next we went to visit a cemetery

Blandford Cemetery. Blandford Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Petersburg, Virginia, United States. The oldest stone, marking the grave of Richard Yarbrough, reads 1702. Veterans of every American war are buried there, including 30,000 Confederates killed in the Siege of Petersburg (1864–65) during the American Civil War. It is located adjacent to the People's Memorial Cemetery, a historic African-American cemetery.

Sharon noticed that her mother's maden name was listed here.

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