For much of the first half of 1864, the regiment served at Winchester, Virginia, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and were defeated in their first significant combat action during the Second Battle of Winchester, being pushed off a wooded ridgeline near Kernstown, Virginia, by elements of the Confederate brigade of John B. Gordon on June 13.
The regiment and brigade served as the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the VI Corps, and participated in numerous battles from the June 27, 1862, Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to the final Union assaults on Confederate positions at Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865.
At the beginning of May 1863, a new Union General, Joseph Hooker led the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River while making a demonstration in front of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The regiment and brigade served as the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the VI Corps, and participated in numerous battles from the June 27, 1862, Battle of Gaines Mill, Virginia, to the final Union assaults on Confederate positions at Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865.
The regiment arrived at Falmouth, Virginia late in November; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg; returned to its camp at Falmouth; was active at Chancellorsville in May, 1863; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss, 192 members out of 365 engaged, Col. Huston being numbered among the dead.
Then he was captured on General Wilson’s raid near Richmond.
Some early 20th-century historians promoted the idea that the early Spanish explorers who made voyages into the Chesapeake Bay between 1565 and 1570 sailed up the Potomac River as far as Occoquan, Virginia, based on the similarity between "Axacan" of the Spanish missionary chronicles and the name of the Indian town and creek on the Potomac.
After passing a New York state examination he was commissioned in December, 1862, assistant surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, and ordered to join his regiment at Falmouth, Virginia.
Dykstra grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia, attended Osbourn Park High School, and played college soccer at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2004 to 2008, redshirting in his first year.
Within a week, after being informed by federal agents, local police officers in Mecklenburg County, Virginia located Juliano on the morning of March 22 and trailed him from an intersection at South Hill before pulling him over and arresting him outside town.
Ashwood, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
The Confederate line broke under the weight of thousands of new troops and they retreated back through Peake's Crossing to Ashland.
Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby Great Bridge.
At Lexington on June 11, Hunter fought with Confederate cavalry under Brig. Gen. John McCausland, who withdrew to Buchanan.
The U.S. Highway 169 corridor travels from the city of Virginia, Minnesota, along the western edge of Mille Lacs Lake, through the western suburbs of Minneapolis and continues south through Belle Plaine, Mankato, and then into Iowa.
The property was initially owned by the Alexander brothers, founders of the city of Alexandria, and was established in 1659 as Caledon Plantation.
Charlebelle was exported in 1926 to B. B. Jones' Audley Stud in Berryville, Virginia.
His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.
At Savage's Station, east of Fair Oaks, they had a large hospital and many military stores.
During his 10 years in the House of Delegates, he represented the 18th district, made up of Warren County and parts of Fauquier and Frederick Counties.
Clover Forest Plantation, located in Goochland, Virginia between Richmond and Charlottesville, is an authentically restored James River estate consisting of terraced landscaped grounds, a private lake, and a Federal-style mansion with portions dating back to pre-revolutionary America.
Development of Currituck's Northern Outer Banks began in 1967 when investors from Sandbridge, Virginia, put together an investment group to purchase undeveloped land.
Nedd serves as the director of the Ecumenical Institute for Health Policy Research at Valley Forge Christian College, Woodbridge, Virginia Campus, and is a fellow in canon law and liturgics at St. Alcuin House, an unaccredited graduate theological school where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion.
Dominick A. "Dom" Flora (born June 12, 1935) is a former American college basketball standout at Washington & Lee University (W&L), located in Lexington, Virginia.
Backer then took post-doctoral positions first at NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia (1971–1973), and then at NASA/GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland (1973–1975).
In July 1755, a small outpost in southwest Virginia, at the present day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee Indian warriors, who killed at least five people including an infant child and captured five more.
Garreau's classic example of an edge city is the information technology center, Tysons Corner, Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. As recently as the end of World War II, it was a country crossroads, but it now has more office space than downtown Atlanta.
Her father's family were Virginians, several trained in Theology at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the family home, the Maupin-Dixon House, is located.
After spending about twelve years in Danville, Virginia, where Alexander spent much of her young life, the family returned to North Carolina, this time the bustling metropolis of Greensboro.
Eubanks is located on Woodgrove Road (VA 719) north of Round Hill and south of the South Fork Catoctin Creek.
The sire of 39 Stake race winners, he was pensioned in 2005 and sent to retirement at Blue Ridge Farm in Middleburg, Virginia.
Following the tour for The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters left Capitol and Grohl decided to build a home studio in Alexandria, Virginia wanting a production away from studio interference, given the troubled recording of the previous album led to the departure of Goldsmith and Smear.
Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.
Francis MacDonnell is professor of History at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia.
In 1981 Franz and Stahl formed they formed Scream in Alexandria, along with Peter and drummer Kent Stax.
Nelson was born in 1965 to Chief and Mrs. Captain Nelson of Indian Neck, Virginia.
Before high school he spent ages 10–11 studying under Swami Satchidananda at the Yogaville Vidyalayam interfaith school in Buckingham, Virginia.
Lee worked in private practice in Alexandria, Virginia until 1992, when he became a Circuit court judge on the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Fairfax Circuit Court.
5000 acres of the surrounding land was originally owned by James Smalley Bate and named Berry Hill for his former Virginia home.
Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.
Gordon Thomas Whyburn (7 January 1904 Lewisville, Texas – 8 September 1969 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology.
He is a partner at Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, a business law firm in Roanoke, Virginia.
However, they were instead given to Animal Allies, a rescue group, and Hank was adopted by a family in Springfield.
Today the Hanover Tomato is one of the most popular tomatoes in the Greater Richmond Region and in parts of Northern Virginia—a popularity underscored by the annual Hanover Tomato Festival held in Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Harold Clifton Mozingo Jr (born March 29, 1985 in Tappahannock, Virginia) is a former Professional baseball pitcher in the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays organizations.
Harry Ashby deButts (died August 27, 1983 in Upperville, Virginia) was a former president of Southern Railway in the United States.
He is survived by his second wife Ida, and two children: Kenneth of Springfield, Virginia, and Patricia Held of Centreville, Virginia.
With its property actually adjoining the border with Chesterfield County in the Bon Air area, some of the students assigned to Huguenot High School had very long school bus rides from the East End of the city.
Detective Alex Cross is enjoying a birthday party with his family when he receives a call from his bosses informing him that Caroline, the 24-year old only daughter of his late brother Blake, has been found murdered in Virginia.
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His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.
Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives (possibly including about 100 based in Cuba) as well as an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll.
John S. Darling (August 17, 1911 – August 23, 2007), was a prominent Virginia based artist was born in McLean, Virginia.
The Kappa Alpha Order Administrative Office is located at Mulberry Hill, in Lexington, Virginia.
The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) was built under the oversight of William Mahone, young civil engineer from Southampton County, Virginia who had been educated in the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute (VMI).
In the 1990s, the individual LEDETs were consolidated under three Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACELTs): Tactical Law Enforcement Team North (TACLET North) based in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tactical Law Enforcement Team Gulf (TACLET Gulf) based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tactical Law Enforcement Team South (TACLET South), based in Opa-locka, Florida, and the Pacific Area Tactical Law Enforcement Team (PACTACLET) based in San Diego, California.
Riddle began to divide his time between Kingsport and the Carter home in Maces Spring, Virginia.
The Little Calfpasture River passes the village of Augusta Springs and the town of Craigsville along its course.
On November 25, 1863, he was captured and imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois, until March 1865, when he was taken to Richmond and put on probation.
Diagnosed with liver cancer, he died in Lexington, Virginia at the age of 87 and was survived by his wife, Sadie, two sons, Louis and Benjamin, and a grandchild.
In 2007, Fickett moved in with her daughter, Bronwyn Congdon, in Colonial Beach, Virginia, where she remained bedridden.
Delta is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and owns schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Georgia.
A cased commemorative copy of the Murphy Combat knife, with an etched blade, was issued by John Ek Knives out of Richmond, Virginia in the early 1990s but due to the etching is distinguishable from the originals.
North Main BBQ has won many awards, but the pinnacle has been "Best Ribs in the World" at the World Invitational Rib Championship in Richmond, Virginia, which was awarded twice to North Main.
Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota
He then served as the head coach of the Virginia Statesmen of the Eastern Elite Amateur Hockey League and also coached Tier II hockey for the Prince William Panthers Hockey Club in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Ellsworth attended Southampton High School in Courtland, Virginia, where he was a Super Prep All-American as a senior.
The enTourage pocket eDGe is a combined tablet computer and e-book made by enTourage Systems Inc., a small company based out of McLean, Virginia.
Powhite Park is a 100 acre park in the city limits of Richmond, Virginia.
During the summer prior to his senior season, Cook announced that he would be transferring to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.
The film, made with a minuscule budget of Rs. 6 lakh ($12000 as per 2012 conversion rate) was the Indian entry for Alexandria Film Festival.
The museum opened in October 2004, in Clintwood, Virginia, close to McClure, Virginia, where Ralph Stanley was born.
He was survived by his wife, Amelia Lyons de Alfaro; three sons, Dr. Victor Ricardo of Washington, Ivan Jose of Lima, Peru, and Rogelio Edwin of Panama City; two daughters, Mrs. Frank H. Weller (née Amelia or Amelita Victoria) of Potomac, Maryland, and Mrs. H. Cabell Maddux (née Yolanda Maria) of McLean, Virginia; and many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, among them the singer Nancy Ames, and attorney and TV personality Elbert Alfaro in Miami Lakes, Florida.
The first Spiders season was in 1881 when they finished 2–0–0, both wins being against Randolph-Macon College of Ashland.
Dennis was once the Liberian National Record holder in the 200 meter (20.58)Fairfax, Virginia in 1998.
In 1971, Lackey was awarded a PhD (Fisheries and Wildlife) and was hired immediately by Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia) as an assistant professor of fisheries.
She died of typhus fever contracted from an infected well and was buried in the city cemetery of Fredericksburg, Virginia beside her husband.
Showing Up spent the first year of his life on Cox's Goochland, Virginia, farm.
In 1754, Stearns and some of his followers moved south to Opequon, Virginia, at that time on the western frontier.
He was elected the first member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Frederick County, having held the seat that would later be occupied by first U.S. President George Washington.
Camp Shenandoah was first established in 1930 near McGaheysville, Virginia and moved to its present site near Swoope, Virginia in 1950.
In the summer of 2007, he ran second in both the grade three Colonial Turf Cup at one mile and three sixteenths (9.5 furlongs) in mid-June and the Virginia Derby at one mile and a quarter (10 furlongs) in Mid-July, both run at Colonial Downs in New Kent County, Virginia on the turf course.
Stumptown refers to several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Young returned to the United States in the 1950s living in Virginia, California, and North Carolina.
Atkinson, who had been fighting a lengthy cancer-related illness, died at his home near Beaverdam, Virginia after several strokes, a few weeks short of his 89th birthday.
Jones graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in 1965, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is a U.S. Department of Transportation facility located in McLean, Virginia.
UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs. Diaz, also referred to as UFC Fight Night 20, was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on January 11, 2010 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia.
Finding nothing, she was ordered to proceed to Cherrystone, Virginia, on 1 May 1865 and warned of the expected arrival of Confederate ram CSS Stonewall from Europe.
Virginia State Bar - an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia responsible for regulation of the legal profession in the Commonwealth.
The first VOP chapter formed in Lee County, and the Lynchburg Chapter also hosted the first three-day Dismantling Racism Workshop, kick-starting workshops all across the state.
Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was Thomas's grandson, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.
In 1994 the Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred just outside of Virginia, killing seventeen people.
Today, Volvo produces class 8 Volvo trucks in its Dublin, Virginia plant and class 8 Mack truck models in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
After the American buyout, the head office was in Reston, Virginia.
The last 20 years have brought improvements and widening to the road, and it could soon lose much traffic to the Coalfields Expressway, a highway that will link the Turnpike to Pineville, Welch, and Buchanan County, Virginia.
William Gilbert was born in Lewinsville, Virginia on July 4, 1847 to Sarah Catherine Ball and John Gilbert.
The station returned to the air from New Rochelle, New York on May 30, 2011 as a K-LOVE affiliate under the WKLV-FM calls (the WKLV calls are currently in use on an AM radio station in Blackstone, Virginia).
WPXW's studios are located in Fairfax Station, Virginia and the transmitter is located in the tower complex near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue, NW and 41st St.
Accordingly, channel 13 moved its transmitter and tower to Evington, Virginia in 1954 in an attempt to better serve Roanoke and the western part of the market.
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His academic studies, preparatory to entering college, were prosecuted principally in the Male Academy, at Lincolnton, N.C., and his collegiate course was taken in Emory and Henry College, Virginia, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B., and which afterward conferred up on him the degree of A.M., not merely "in course," but because of his higher attainments in literature.
Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia.
John Chilembwe (1871 – 1915) was a Baptist minister, who returned to Nyasaland after education at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) in 1900 and founded the Providence Industrial Mission.
The Festival takes place each summer at Camp Washington-Carver, in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
Bold Alligator 2012 was held ashore and afloat, in and off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, and it culminated in three large-scale operations - an amphibious assault at Camp Lejeune; an aerial assault from the sea into Fort Pickett; and an amphibious raid on Joint Expeditionary Base East.
In 1992, while the two were attending different high schools in Virginia Beach (Hugo at Kempsville High School), Williams was paid to write a verse to the 1992 single "Rump Shaker", by Wreckx-n-Effect.
Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.
City Point, Virginia, an extinct town (now a portion of Hopewell, Virginia)
On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
He also competes for the Hermie Sadler-owned UWF Live organization, based primarily in the Carolinas and Virginia.
Their next stores were then opened in Chesterfield, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Williamsburg, Virginia.
The ornamental border on both sides of the seal consists of sprigs of Parthenocissus quinquefolia, or commonly, Virginia Creeper.
Frank S. Blair (1839–1899), Virginia lawyer and Attorney General of Virginia
Frank Cignetti, Sr. (born 1937), American football player and coach, head coach at West Virginia University (1976–1979) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1986–2005)
His work on Stephen Crane repeatedly evoked threats of lawsuits from Fredson Bowers for exposing sloppiness in both theory and practice in the Virginia Edition.
1990s: Columbia Gas Transmission of West Virginia construct a gas line under the former rail bed, and the surface rights for the former High Bridge Branch line are transferred to the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation and Morris County Parks and Recreation for use as a recreational trail, known as Columbia Trail.
After returning to the United States, he performed with the Barter Theatre in Virginia, together with Gregory Peck.
James Harvey Carson (1808–1884), Virginia politician and militia general (Confederate)
James Q. Miller MD (1926 – May 15, 2005) was an American neurologist and educator in neurology based at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Virginia "Jean" Giambrone (May 6, 1921 – January 21, 2013) was an American sports writer, who became the first woman to be awarded full press credentials at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
In 1936 He married Virginia Hanlon (1909-1997) and had two children: J. Thomas McCarthy (born 1937) and Maureen C. McCarthy (born 1953).
She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960-65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966-69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969-78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977-82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.
Significantly the Virginia delegation was led by Thomas Walker and Andrew Lewis, who led the Greenbrier Company.
While working on his Ph.D. research in the 1970s, Lund utilized the resources of Virginia Tech's computer lab.
Gillars served her sentence at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, West Virginia.
Mother Jones' Prison, formerly a National Historic Landmark in West Virginia
Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Henry Phelps Perkins, Jr., and his wife, Helen Virginia (née Anthony).
In 2005, Halmos and his wife Virginia funded the Euler Book Prize, an annual award given by the Mathematical Association of America for a book that is likely to improve the view of mathematics among the public.
In a petition Francisco wrote 11 November 1820 to the Virginia Legislature in his own words, he said that at Camden, he had shot a grenadier who had tried to shoot his Colonel (Mayo); he escaped by bayoneting one of Banastre Tarleton's cavalrymen and fled on the horse making cries to make the British think he was a Loyalist, and gave the horse to Mayo.
Pigg River, river in south-central Virginia in the United States
As Claudio in Montero's Virginia, and roles in L'amico Fritz, Carmen, Aida, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, and Bastien und Bastienne had become part of Iriarte’s wide music repertoire full of success.
Rocket Center, West Virginia is the site of a government installation known as Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, part of the Naval Sea Systems Command which is currently operated by Alliant Techsystems.
After serving as principal for seven years, he resigned to become the Virginia agent for the American Colonization Society.
Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.
12 Candidates were invited to "The Farm," a remote former Virginia plantation that has been converted into an executive retreat.
Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.
ECA also owns Virginia College Online, which offers distance education academic programs via the Internet; Golf Academy of America; Culinard, the Culinary Institute of Virginia College, offering degrees in the culinary arts; and Ecotech Institute, offering degrees in fields of renewable energy, sustainable design, and energy efficiency.
Virginia Muise (Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 27 or 28, 1893 – Haverhill, New Hampshire, November 2, 2004) was at her death probably the oldest living New Englander.
WCYB-TV, NBC affiliate television station licensed to Bristol, Virginia, United States
He is married to the writer Helena Cobban, has one daughter and two stepchildren, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.
This work enabled him to marry Francesca (Fanny) Theodora Bland Pryor, daughter of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and Roger Atkinson Pryor of Virginia and New York.
WPXR-TV, a television station (channel 36 digital/38 virtual) licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States