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from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river. Paul Hamilton Hayne, Beyond the Potomac, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations...

and its leadership. Located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the building was designed by American architect...

at a time when I was living on a sailboat in a quiet creek off the Potomac River right after college graduation. He seemed to view faith as a romantic...

War poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight". All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush of the river, While soft falls the dew on...

heirs the concession of a vast stretch of land to the north of the Potomac River, the future state of Maryland.  He died, however, on 15/25 April 1632...

1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. As permitted by the U.S. Constitution,...

The grant was carved out of Virginia territory and extended from the Potomac River north to the fortieth parallel, including (but rather larger than) the...

but in "imminent danger." Relying on our numbers, our forts, and the Potomac River, I am confident in the opposite opinion; and considering the stream...

your poor"; That's because it's in New York Bay. If she were in the Potomac River, Lady Liberty would read, "Give me your wealthy, your gifted, your privileged"...

1863] Let us cross over the river...and rest under the shade of the trees. [at Fredericksburg, as the Army of the Potomac crosses the Rappahanock] In...

to James C. Conkling (26 August 1863) I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed...

telegram dated 9 April 1862 addressed to the Commander of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan Shiloh had the same number of casualties as Waterloo...

to see if the peace-pipe could not be smoked on the big waters of the Potomac. The appearance on the balcony of the hotel of the whole party, watching...

Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the...

Lee" from the album Johnny 99 (1983). Opposing Grant and the Army of the Potomac was Robert E. Lee, the last great knight of battle. He was a god to his...

(2021), New York: Simon & Schuster, hardcover, p. 107-108 Across the Potomac River at Quarters 6, inside his second-floor, top secret Sensitive Compartmented...

prefigured more horrors to come. At the end of the battle, the Army of the Potomac had 18,000 casualties, and it looked like another defeat in Virginia. But...

commander of the Union Army of the Potomac. The U.S. attacks against high ground south of the Rappahannock River, strongly held by the Confederates,...

Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding, slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North. It is an army of 70,000 men. They move...

at Washington could manage the social relations of the people from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. But the answer to Mayor Macbeth is that he and his companions...