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 ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...