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Shenandoah Valley

noun

A large valley between the Allegheny Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Virginia; site of numerous battles during the American Civil War.

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... Bull Run Campaign, July, 1861.—Northern soldiers crossed the Potomac into Virginia and found the Confederates posted at Bull Run near Manassas Junction. Other Northern soldiers pressed into the Shenandoah Valley from Harper's Ferry. They, too, found a Confederate army in front of them. The plan of the Union campaign is now clear: General McDowell was to attack the Confederates at Bull Run, while General Patterson attacked the Confederates in ...

— A Short History of the United States • Edward Channing

... Hillsborough, Ohio, Samuel Linn, and Robert Herron, and others of the same vicinity, could 'make both the ears of every one who heareth them tingle' with the accounts which they can give of slave-driving by professors of religion in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

Words linked to "Shenandoah Valley" : vale, Old Dominion, VA, Virginia, valley, Old Dominion State