"looking for Sheppard's Landing VA" Topic

Can anyone help me pinpoint the location of Sheppard's Landing, Virginia? It was somewhere on the north bank of the Mattaponi River, probably downstream from King and Queen Courthouse.

It has nothing to do with an Apollo mission of course?

Only one I'm finding in Virginia is near Alexandria, shown on this link.
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Depending on how desperate you are, you might trace the Sheppard Family in Virginia. They were fairly prominent early on, and that name would surely tie into a family holding.

Sheppard's Landing is also known as Chain Ferry and was about two miles upstream from West Point on the Mattaponi. A ferry connected it by road with West Point as well. According the the Corps of Engineers 1913 Water Terminal and Transfer facilities it had three docks in 1913.

Thanks, Bill N, that's got to be the one I'm looking for! Union infantry (U.S. Colored Troops) disembarked there 9 March 1864, in an attempt to ambush Confederate Cavalry (that had imprudently gone further down the Middle Peninsula) when they turned for home.

Aha! If I had only read a little further in the OR, I'd have seen it described in an order to one of the regimental commanders as "about 1 mile above West Point". That's what I get for only looking for it in reports.