Synonyms:
Rappahannock, Rappahannock_River
Meaning: a river that flows across eastern Virginia into the Tidewater region
Usage examples
The yellow torrent of the Rappahannock was now his only sure guide and he stuck to it.
Dick went down into a little creek, emptying into the Rappahannock, and bathed his face and hands.
He meant to keep close to the banks of the Rappahannock, and if he persisted he would surely come in time to Pope's army.
Jackson with his forces was marching up his side of the Rappahannock and the great brain under the old slouch hat was working hard.
There had been a long drought, and at some points the Rappahannock could be forded, but not in the face of such a defence as the North here offered.
The colonel obtained leave to go up the Rappahannock until nightfall, but only his own regiment, now reduced to less than four hundred men, was allotted to him.
The Southern vanguard could not assail such a powerful force, and before the night was over the whole Union army passed to the Northern side of the Rappahannock.
He was resolved to get back to the army with the news that a heavy Southern force was across the Rappahannock. Others might get there first with the fact, but one never knew.
As night came the thudding of cannon added to the tumult, and then the three boys saw the Rappahannock, a deep and wide stream flowing between high banks crested with timber.
Earlier in the day Stuart, full of enterprise, and almost insensible to fatigue, had crossed the Rappahannock much higher up and at the head of a formidable body of his horsemen, unseen by scouts and spies, was riding around the Union right.