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"The swamps of Santee" may refer to the fighting that took place near the Santee River in South Carolina
For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing
Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West
It was a cheerful sight, that river.
gradual reduction of duties until the year 1842, when they were to be 20 percent, or under" (Blair and River
Though we do not expect to set the North river on fire, we are free to confess, without vanity, that
One is the drying up of a clear transparent brooklet; and one the quenching of a river, more extensive
kindness and philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers
few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river
Upon the banks of a pleasant river stood a cottage, the residence of an ancient man whose limbs were
up from opposite directions, and stood together at a tomb built on a hill by the borders of a fair river
A boy again, and in the confiding heart of a boy, I walk with Eva by the river's banks.
conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river
I lay upon the ground, on a pier jutting out into the river.
I raised myself on my hands and knees, and my first thought was to throw myself over into the river,
Starting at one of the eastern wharves, is a street running up from the river—a narrow, dirty street,
My walk skirted the banks of the river.