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Today in Virginia

On this day in 1862

Union general George B. McClellan is assigned command of the defense of Washington, D.C. more

On this day in 1863

Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside liberates the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, from Confederate control. more

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