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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

We passed our intrenchments, and, it was said, we marched in the direction of 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 Charles Augustus Fuller

He posted McCall’s division in front of Charles City cross-roads; his divisions under Morell and Sykes at Malvern Hill, and Warren’s brigade, near the Fourth Corps, on the river routes from Richmond.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet

The battle of Malvern Hill presented, by far, the most sublime spectacle I ever witnessed.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds

Harrison Landing is only six miles from Malvern Hill.

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

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