U.S. STEAMER CAMBRIDGE, RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER, Nov. 9, 1861 ... to proceed in the United States steamer Rescue to the Cunitomen Creek and capture a schooner reported to me to be loaded with firewood ...

English explorers wrote that Powhatan controlled a domain spanning much of what is now Virginia, from the state ... s 1608 map of the Chesapeake Bay shows (circled) the Rappahannock River ...