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Malvern Hill

American  
[mal-vern] / ˈmæl vərn /

noun

  1. a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.


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The Battle of Malvern Hill is the nearest approach to melodrama.

From Time Magazine Archive

G. Odell were discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability, and Brigham Buswell was discharged on account of disability resulting from the wound received at Malvern Hill.

From Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters by Ripley, William Y. W.

General McClellan had fought some hard battles in Virginia—Fair Oaks, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, and others—with varying success, losing thousands of men in the Chickahominy swamps, and after the battle of Antietam, Sept.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.

C was with the regiment, just returned from hospital partially recovered from a wound received at Malvern Hill.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus

Our wounded, left in Malvern Hill hospital, had to foot their way to Harrison Landing in the best manner they could.

From Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Reichardt, Theodore

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