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Battle of Chantilly. The Battle of Chantilly (or Ox Hill, the Confederate name) took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia attempted to cut off the line of retreat of the ...
Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States. Situated on 800 acres (3.2 km 2) along the banks of the Potomac River in northern Fairfax County, the park is a disconnected but integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. [1] The Great Falls of the Potomac River are near the northern boundary ...
The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, located in Plains, Georgia, preserves sites associated with Jimmy Carter (born 1924), 39th president of the United States. These include his residence, boyhood farm, school, and the town railroad depot, which served as his campaign headquarters during the 1976 election. The building which used to be ...
Maj. Rufus R. Dawes, 6th Wisconsin In a few moments our entire line was engaged in a fierce and sanguinary struggle with the enemy. As one line was repulsed another took its place and pressed forward as if determined by force of numbers and fury of assault to drive us from our positions. Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson The 2nd Wisconsin, under the command of Col. Edgar O'Connor, advanced obliquely ...
Area code. +995 436. Website. tskaltubo.gov.ge. Hotel Shakhtiori in the 1950s. Tskaltubo or Tsqaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბო) is a spa resort in west-central Georgia. [2] It is the main town of the Tsqaltubo Municipality of the Imereti province. It is known for its radon - carbonate mineral springs, whose natural temperature of 33 ...
Brasstown Valley Resort. Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa is a 134 room resort on 503-acre (2.04 km 2) just north of Young Harris, Georgia, [ 1] surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains at 2,150-foot (660 m) elevation. The resort was built and opened in April 1995. [ 2] It was a $27 million project which is privately operated on state-owned land.
The Awakening (sculpture) The Awakening. (sculpture) Coordinates: 38°47′6″N 77°1′1″W. The statue at its current location on a man-made beach along the Potomac River at National Harbor, Maryland. The Awakening (1980) is a 72-foot (22 m) statue by J. Seward Johnson, Jr. that depicts a giant embedded in the earth, struggling to free himself.
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88.5-acre (358,000 m 2) island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. [2][3] During the Civil War, it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops. The island was given to the federal government by the Theodore Roosevelt Association in memory of the 26th ...