Potomac River

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