Walk in Lincoln's Final Footsteps: Point of Rocks
President Lincoln would visit the area of Chesterfield County on the banks of the Appomattox River known as Point of Rocks three times during the Civil War. Two of those visits were in March 1865 when the area strategically located between Richmond and Petersburg was serving as a Union hospital site.
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