By 1829 this area of Hancock County had grown Expansion sufficiently so that a post office was needed , and in 1832 the town , now called Name_conferral `` Venus '' , was one of the contenders for the new county seat .

During the night of August 13–14 , a force under the command Control of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock crossed Motion_directional the James River at Deep Bottom to threaten Warning Richmond and attract Confederate forces away from the Petersburg , Virginia , trenches and the Shenandoah Valley .