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09/24/1861 |
At Point of Rocks, Union troops on the Maryland side skirmish with Confederate units across the Potomac |
Battles/Soldiers |
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04/15/1865 |
Fugitive John Wilkes Booth rides into Maryland and reaches the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd at four a.m. |
Crime/Disasters |
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04/25/1865 |
In the Potomac Estuary, scores of soldiers drown after a midnight collision between steamships |
Crime/Disasters |
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04/17/1865 to 04/20/1865 |
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are hiding from their pursuers in a remote Maryland pine thicket |
Crime/Disasters |
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11/11/1861 |
On the Potomac, Thaddeus Lowe launches the first balloon observation flight from a naval craft |
Science/Technology |
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11/10/1861 |
On the Potomac, Thaddeus Lowe's balloon carrier is towed into position off Mattawoman Creek |
Science/Technology |
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10/06/1860 to 10/07/1860 |
Prince Albert makes a brief visit to Richmond, Virginia |
US/the World |
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01/01/1857 |
Robert Brown, a fugitive slave from Virginia, arrives in Philadelphia after crossing Potomac on horseback |
Slavery/Abolition |
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02/05/1867 |
The breaking up of the ice dams on the Potomac carries away Washington, D.C.'s Long Bridge. |
Crime/Disasters |
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07/13/1863 to 07/14/1863 |
The Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania ends when Lee's troops slip away across the Potomac in the night |
Battles/Soldiers |
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07/06/1863 to 07/07/1863 |
The retreating Army of Virginia reaches the Potomac and finds it flooded and impassable |
Battles/Soldiers |
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06/20/1863 to 06/22/1863 |
The Second Corps of the Army of Virginia crosses the Potomac and marches on Pennsylvania |
Battles/Soldiers |
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09/15/1861 |
Union troops push back attacking Virginia units around Harpers Ferry near Pritchard's Mill on the Potomac |
Battles/Soldiers |
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10/11/1861 |
United States Navy raiding party crosses the Potomac and destroys a Confederate schooner in Dumfries Creek |
Battles/Soldiers |
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06/05/1860 |
Virginia Republican arrested for circulating anti-southern literature |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
