Tag: Provost Marshal’s Office (City Point VA)

Built by the US Military Railroads Construction Corps in 1864.

Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point says: Brigadier General Marsena Rudolph Patrich, Provost Marshal General, Army of the Potomac, was the man charged with final resposibility for protecting the security of the City Point Depot. A total of six buildings were assigned to him. The Provost Marshal’s Offices were in two small buildings standing on a bluff overlooking Wharf Four. These buildings, which cost $575 and $650, respectively, measured fifteen by twenty-three feet and fifteen by twenty-six feet. Both were framed, one-story buildings built by the government in 1864-1865.

These two buildings were not, it appears, used by General Patricki, but rather by a subordinate.