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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

But little remains to be said of the engagements at Frayser’s Farm and Malvern Hill.

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

He was with his regiment at the battles of Bull Run, Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

Later on we came to know that it was Malvern Hill, where a great battle was soon to be fought.

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

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 Edmonds, S. Emma E.

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