Terms sometimes used to refer to Washington D.C.

Usage examples of potomac.

These booked no tours to Manhattan or Deecee parks, signed up for none of the nature walks in the Appalachians, reserved no evening dinner cruises up the Potomac.

A short while later, after crossing the Potomac on the Wilson Bridge, he exited onto Indian Head Highway.

At the Gamebird Project, on the banks of the Potomac River, as at all the other projects run by the government, the resident workers were, though comparatively lavishly provided for and kept in luxury, sequestered, not allowed to leave the complex and grounds save in supervised groups for very necessary field trips or visits to their superiors elsewhere.

Potomac, was much otherwise, and the mortality among the labourers on the canal was frightful.

Lincoln is too busy with McClellan and the Army of the Potomac, and with the Trent affair and war with England, to yet apprise himself of a Tennessee River plan.

The gardens had their own plantsmen, a young couple from Potomac who apparently made a very nice living tending gardens around town.

Lee hampered with such a body of prisoners, since it was very doubtful if he could get his beaten army back across the Potomac, let alone his prisoners.

Many of the prisoners that came in from the Army of the Potomac repaid robbing equally well.

Some five thousand or six thousand new prisoners had come in since the first of the month, and it was claimed that the Raiders had received large reinforcements from those,--a claim rendered probable by most of the new-comers being from the Army of the Potomac.

Most of the prisoners from the Army of the Potomac were well dressed, and as very many died within a month or six weeks after their entrance, they left their clothes in pretty good condition for those who constituted themselves their heirs, administrators and assigns.

They were silent for a while, watching the Potomac and the rowers and listening to the sounds of the traffic high up on the bridge above them.

It righted itself as it slalomed into the parking lot and then crunched partially through the low stone wall overlooking a sheer cliff that fell all the way to the Potomac.

Here in Washington, the Army of the Potomac is now marching up and down, looking spiffier every day, and the Tycoon is beginning to get abuse for the Jacobins here and Greeley in the Tribune in New York for appointing a procrastinator as General-in-Chief.

The disparity between the number coming in from the Army of the Potomac and Western armies was so great, that we Westerners began to take some advantage of it.

Lee had retreated across the Potomac after Antietam with less than forty thousand men.