The Army of Potomac trying to take Richmond, end this damned war, and the Army of Northern Virginia offering a brilliant and brutal defense.

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Lee surrendered what remained of his Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

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It is no minor thing to be tapped as the revered Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, and Dave struggled with the role early on, even before he put on the uniform.

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Over 5, 200 dead and 23, 800 wounded in one week as General George McClellan attacked then retreated, somehow finding his superior numbers inadequate, utterly incapable of admitting that he was being out-smarted by the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E.

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The very fact that the daughter of an Army officer from Richmond, Virginia -- the very fact that I can represent the president of the United States on the floor of the Senate of the United States is powerful proof that the American dream lives.

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When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

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Soon after George Washington, a Virginia slaveholder, took command of the Continental army in 1775, blacks were forbidden to serve.

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"This was not something we thought was going to happen to her at all, " said Nikki Johnson, one of Shoshana's younger sisters and an Army captain stationed in Virginia.

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"When you have someone like you or me who doesn't intend to attack a flight, whether we have a Swiss Army knife in our pocket or not doesn't make any difference, " said Ron, president of Virginia-based New Age Security Solutions and former head of security of Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel.

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