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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 370 km (230 mi) long, of eastern Georgia flowing generally southeast to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Foster and up with Admiral Dahlgren, I realize how admirably adapted are Ossabaw Sound and Ogeechee River to supply an army operating against Savannah.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Ogeechee River, with the Fifteenth Corps, opposite Scarboro '.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Admiral Dahlgren concluded to go toward a vessel (the Sonoma) of his blockading fleet, which lay at anchor near Beaulieu, and I transferred to the Red Legs, and hastened up the Ogeechee River to
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The chief-quartermaster, General Euston, will, after giving the necessary orders touching the transports in Ogeechee River and
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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King's Bridge, a point on Ogeechee River, fourteen and a half miles due west of Savannah, from which point we have roads leading to all our camps.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Leaving our horses behind the stacks of rice-straw, we all got on the roof of a shed attached to the mill, wherefrom I could communicate with the signal-officer above, and at the same time look out toward Ossabaw Sound, and across the Ogeechee River at Fort McAllister.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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We accordingly steamed down the Ogeechee River to Ossabaw Sound, in hopes to meet
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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When Sherman's army reached the vicinity of Savannah the cavalry captured, near the Ogeechee River bridge, the last outgoing train on what was then called the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
War stories and school-day incidents for the children, Berrien McPherson 1912
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William, a lawyer, lived partly in Savannah and partly at "Sans Souci," his plantation on the Ogeechee River.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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The capture of Fort McAllister a week before had opened the Ogeechee River, and Sherman now established a new base of supplies on the sea-coast.
History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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