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  • If the Chickahominy is intended by Lee as the last line of defence, the position has been well chosen.

    Foreign and Colonial News 1864

  • This breezy run was the last I took; for, on the morrow, came rain and wind: and confinement soon proved a powerful reinforcement to the enemy, who was quietly preparing to spring a mine, and blow me five hundred miles from the position I had taken in what I called my Chickahominy Swamp.

    Hospital Sketches 1863

  • The country between the James and the Chickahominy is a very flat, swampy county, grown up in great forests, with now and then a cultivated field.

    History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

  • Give me two men and one of the ship's boats and I will set off to the northward, up that river the Indians call the Chickahominy and,

    The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904

  • It seemed thus absolutely necessary to discover some other point of assault; and, as the Federal right beyond the Chickahominy was the only point left, it was determined to attack, if possible, in that quarter.

    A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876

  • November he set out in the barge to explore the Chickahominy, which is described as emptying into the James at Paspahegh, eight miles above the fort.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • November he set out in the barge to explore the Chickahominy, which is described as emptying into the James at Paspahegh, eight miles above the fort.

    Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • a muddy river called the Chickahominy (and it was very far from either of those two good things) was forsaken, and the host began to be moved toward the James.

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • Keller was sent by General Butler to Ship Island for two years for exhibiting in his shop-window a human skeleton labelled "Chickahominy," claiming it to be the bones of some gallant soldier of the Union, army who had fallen in one of the disastrous battles in Virginia.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • I did find out while checking regs on the Virginia department of game web sight I don't think I can hunt with my rifles on Hog island or Chickahominy anymore.

    i watched a guy on tv last night harvest a deer with his bow and he shot the deer at 60 yards.now if he harvest a deer at 60 yar 2009

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