During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States ... the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of the Potomac River, was a refuge for Union and Confederate ...

McPherson provides background on the Union occupation of Alexandria and the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. On May 24, 1861, Union troops crossed the Potomac River and occupied ...

This $615 million project is key to cleaning up the Potomac River ... Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up, communities have been building vast tunnels like this ...

He had been ready in 1858 to launch his war -- he had both the men and the ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited ...