Tag: Contraband Quarters (City Point VA)

Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point says: The term contraband refers to the slaves who left their masters for the protection of Grant’s Army as it moved into Virginia. In City Point, these ex-slaves performed a variety of functions for which they were given food and shelter.

[W]hat was apparently the main contraband settlement was located just west of City Point Road extending southwest from the engineers’ camping ground to present-day Appomattox Street.

The contraband quarters consisted of ten frame buildings constructed by the government in 1864-65.