Chickahom'iny, a river of Virginia, which flows within 5 miles of Richmond, and enters the
James, after a south-easterly course of 90 miles. Four battles were fought near its banks in June 1862.
Chickahom'iny
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 174
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