Rappahannock

Rappahannock, a river of Virginia, rises in the Blue Ridge of the Alleghany Mountains, receives the Rapidan (above this point it is sometimes called the North Fork), and flows about 125 miles south-east to Chesapeake Bay. It is tidal and navigable to Fredericksburg. The Rappahannock and the Rapidan were the scenes of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness.