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Rappahannock River   /rˌæpəhˈænək rˈɪvər/   Listen
Rappahannock River

noun
1.
A river that flows across eastern Virginia into the Tidewater region.  Synonym: Rappahannock.






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"Rappahannock River" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his recent correspondence, an instance of the barbarity of some of the Yankee soldiers in the Abolition Army of the Potomac. They thrust into the Rappahannock River a poor old negro man, whom they had taken from his master, because he had the small-pox; and he would have been drowned had he not been rescued by our pickets. It is surmised that this dreadful disease prevails to an alarming extent in the Yankee army, and probably embarrasses their operations. ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... born on a plantation (or large estate cultivated by slaves) on Bridges Creek, a small stream emptying into the Potomac. See map in paragraph 127. Not long after George's birth (February 22, 1732), his father moved to an estate on the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. See map in paragraph 127 for ...
— The Beginner's American History • D. H. Montgomery

... at Fredericksburg. Burnsides, the courtly, polished gentleman, crossed the Rappahannock River and charged the hills on which Lee's grim, gray men had entrenched. His magnificent army marched into a death trap. Lee's batteries had been trained to rake the field from ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon



Words linked to "Rappahannock River" :   Old Dominion, Virginia, Old Dominion State, VA, river, Rappahannock



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