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wrote to Abby Price as Meade was unable to slow the Confeder at~ advance across Virginia's Rapidan River
picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush ofthese great cities, the unsurpass'd situation, rivers
A young man stands at the Delaware River's edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and
I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers ofAmerica, and along the shores ofthe
JA M E S E .M IL L E R , JR . 197 Earth ofshine and dark mottling the tide ofthe river!
This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.
for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River
These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.
Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal
the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.