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Susquehanna River

noun

A river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay. Synonym: Susquehanna.

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... condition of affairs, however, existed until the 25th—and to General Benjamin F. Butler is due the chief credit of putting an end to it. It seems he had reached the Susquehanna river at Perryville, with his Eighth Massachusetts Regiment on the 20th—the day after the Sixth Massachusetts had been mobbed at Baltimore—and, finding his further progress to Washington via Baltimore, barred by the destruction ...

— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... re-opened by General Butler, who, finding that the bridges between the Susquehanna River and the city of Baltimore had been burned, went on the steam ferry-boat from Havre de Grace around to Annapolis at the head of the Massachusetts Eighth. On their arrival at Annapolis it was found that the sympathizers with secession had partially destroyed the railroad leading to Washington, ...

— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

Words linked to "Susquehanna River" : NY, river, Maryland, Old Line State, Empire State, pa, New York State, New York, md, Pennsylvania, free state, Keystone State