75 minutes City Point tells the story of America before, during, and after the Civil War. A tour of the kitchen building, Appomattox Manor, and Grant's cabin provides an insight into the experiences of a slave, a plantation owner, and a war general, respectively, and how the Civil War connected and forever altered their lives. Students actively participate in a living map activity, where they learn about troop movements around the city and the significance of Petersburg as a supply depot.
Students then explore the grounds where the fighting first began at Petersburg.
This tour of Battery Five provides students a visual understanding of how soldiers fought behind trenches and earthworks. Students examine the reasons that the Union soldiers, including the United States Colored Troops, and the Confederate soldiers were fighting here. Students then explore three stations of props and flags representing each soldier, which provide clues of the lifestyle of these soldiers prior to and during the Civil War. This program explores how soldiers spent their days in the trenches where they fought, slept, ate and passed the time away. Students will role-play a battle, being assigned as a Union or Confederate soldier, wounded or unwounded.