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Our Home
... Oct 14, 2005 The front porch I live in a small, rural town about 20 miles west of Washington DC. Those people who know the Washington area may ask, how is that ...
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Work
... 1999, I spent my time at Manassas National Battlefield Park, in Northern Virginia, about 25 miles west of Washington DC. Manassas is the site of two major American Civil War Battles. The ...
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Weather
... Weather Clifton Virginia Last update May 2, 2005 Where is Clifton? We are about 25 miles west of the US Capitol building. Map This information is updated about 2 minutes after each ...
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First Battle of Manassas
... . The first day's march covered only eight kilometers (5 miles) as many stayed back to pick blackberries or fill canteens. ... Orange and Alexandria Railroad met the Manassas Gap Railroad, which led west to the Shenandoah Valley. If McDowell could seize this junction, ... s capital. On July 18th McDowell's Army reached Centreville. Five miles ahead a small meandering stream named Bull Run crossed the ...
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Silent Sentinel
... the Warrenton Turnpike) was designed to run a total of 28 ½ miles, from the Little River Turnpike at Germantown (outside Fairfax Court House ... Six toll gates were located along the route, each approximately five miles apart. However the contract for the construction of the road ... his widow, Judith Carter Henry, and her four children. To the west of the Matthews lived John D. Dogan, his wife Anne, and ...
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Too Few Trains, By Charles T. Harrell
... toward Winchester on July 15th that stalled at Bunker Hill, nine miles north of the city. Again it was the cavalry that ... in the lead. The distance to Manassas Junction was nearly sixty miles and would take an average army four or five days forced ... in the Blue Ridge seventeen miles distant of Winchester. The remaining brigades under personal command of Johnston remained west of the gap and camped ...
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Where It All Began
... by population growth and trade interests. The cutting of 967 square miles from old Prince William County occurred in 1742, again shifting the ... of the tobacco went, not to Great Britain, but to the West Indies and some to France. The interests of the ... emergence of the Carter family. The Northern Neck, 100 miles long and approximately 20 miles wide lies between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers, ...
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The Civil War Years
... new Confederacy, continued to glare at one another across a hundred miles of rolling Virginia countryside. Civilians on both sides grew impatient. ... move toward Richmond. By May 20th, they were just nine miles from the Confederate capitol. Again McClellan stalled believing that ... Pope, another Union general with a successful record in the west, was given command of a newly formed "Army of Virginia" ...
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