Image ID: ABFZ

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1864.06-07
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Locations & Lines:	City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); James River; Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:	Building 34 (City Point VA); Building 65 (City Point VA)
Transports:	barge W. R. Platt; freight wagon; schooner; USMRR floating pile driver (a)
Sources:	J. Paul Getty Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection
Equipment:	pile driver

Early view of City Point wharves. Sometimes misidentified as Belle Plain.

G. Frank Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point, p83: City Point from south, 1864.

G. Frank Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point, p122: Riverfront at City Point from south, 1864.

The larger of the two USMRR floating pile-drivers can be seen just right of center.

Etched onto negative: No. 2, New No. 281 [both crossed out]. 344. 9561.

Seeing the Civil War