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Milroy is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
As Confederate Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell moved down the Shenandoah Valley in the direction of Pennsylvania, his corps defeated the Union Army garrison commanded by Major General Robert H. Milroy, capturing Winchester and numerous Union prisoners.
Additionally, in the days following the battle " 2, 700 more turned up in Bloody Run, Pennsylvania " Milroy's command ceased to exist, and the scattered remnants of what was the 2nd Division, VIII Corps were assimilated back into the Middle Department, while Milroy was placed under arrest.
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The Orpington Car, designed by Frank Smith and built by Smith & Milroy Ltd at their works in Wellington Road, was shown at the 1920 Motor Show.
In 1996, after 36 years of performing as Francie and Josie, Fulton and Milroy appeared in their " Final Farewell " at the King's Theatre, Glasgow.
* Milroy ( List of horses of the American Civil War ), horse captured by Confederate Army General John B. Gordon from Union Army General Robert H. Milroy at the Second Winchester battle during the American Civil War
One regiment, the 14th Indiana commanded by Colonel Nathan Kimball, defended Fort Milroy on Cheat Mountain, while the remaining three were at Camp Elkwater near the Tygart Valley River, where Reynolds established his headquarters.
By April, four months into his occupation of Winchester, Milroy's loose grip on Confederate raiding in the lower Shenandoah Valley caused enough concern for the Middle Department commander, Schenck, to directly order Milroy to post one brigade further to the east at Berryville.
Milroy also often recorded many other grand-sounding cavalry incursions supposedly capturing or killing many of Colonel John S. Mosby's rangers in the weeks and months leading up to June ; however, the records of Mosby's Rangers do not corroborate or mention most of these engagements Milroy's farthest outlying videttes to the south were located at or near Parkins Mill Battery at the Opequon Creek crossing, a mere four miles south of Winchester.
Also at 9 p. m., at a formal council of war, Milroy and his officers made the decision to try to " cut their way through " to Harpers Ferry on the old Charles Town Road, the very same road that Confederate Johnson and his division were marching toward to cut off.
Milroy was exonerated and claimed that his brilliant defensive action at Winchester was instrumental in causing the timing of the Battle of Gettysburg, leading to the overall Union victory for the campaign.
The second division, under Robert H. Milroy, suffered heavy casualties during the Second Battle of Winchester on June 13 – 15, 1863, and elements of the corps also took part in the delaying action at Martinsburg a few days later.
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He lobbied the Senate to promote Samuel Milroy, whom he owed a favor, to the position of Indian agent.
Although briefly successful, Smith and Milroy could not compete with mass production, and the last car was commonly believed to have been built in 1925.
It was first called Milroy in honor of Samuel Milroy, one of the commissioners, but a town in Rush County already bore that name.
File: Delphii Indiana Milroy site. JPG | Site of Samuel Milroy's cabin ( 1827 ) founding Delphi, Carrol County, Indiana
* Edwin W. Rawlings ( 1904 – 1997 ) – Born in Milroy, he served in the United States Air Force from 1929 to 1959, rising to the rank of four-star general ; after his retirement from military service, he went on to become president and board chairman of General Mills, based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
' Aperto 86 ' exhibition with works by Lisa Milroy, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Jacqueline Poncelet, Boyd Webb, and Richard Wilson.
He was also known for his appearances as one half of the double act, Francie and Josie, alongside Jack Milroy.
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* Diagram illustrating ( i ) tunnel in glacier before retreat of ice, forming ( ii ) meandering esker in The Ice Melts: Deposition on page 6 of " Pennsylvania and the Ice Age " published 1999 by PA DCNR Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey
Passengers traveling on I-78 eastbound must use this exit to access I-476 ( Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ), and westbound travelers must use exit 53 ( northbound PA 309 ) and then westbound US 22.
In 1728, Conrad Beissel, a Brethren minister at Conestoga ( Lancaster County, PA ) renounced his association with the Brethren and formed his own group at Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
A study released in 2009 by PathWays PA, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, found that 35 % of families in Fayette County were economically distressed, that is, failing to earn a wage that would adequately provide food, shelter, child care, health care, and other basic necessities.
Pennsylvania Route 772 Starts in Gap about 5 blocks west from the intersection of PA 41 and US 30 along Lincoln Highway Route 772 is popular with visitors to view local farms and farm lands.
Forest Lakes Council and Penn Mountains Council merged in 1990 to form the current Northeastern Pennsylvania Council, in Moosic, PA.
1970 also saw the merger of Blair-Bedford Area Council ( Altoona ), William Penn Council ( Indiana, PA ) and Admiral Robert E. Peary Council ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ) into the current Penns Woods Council in Ebensburg.
This Council changed its name in 1995 to Pennsylvania Dutch Council and is headquartered in Lancaster, PA.
The Dingman's Ferry Bridge, one of the last privately owned toll bridge on the Delaware River and one of the last few in the United States, carries two lanes of PA 739 and NJ County Route 560, connecting to Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania.
From November 16, 1896, through June 1936 Whitesville was served by the New York & Pennsylvania Railway ( and predecessors ) as part of its Canisteo NY to Ceres NY ( via Greenwood NY, Genesee PA, Oswayo and Shingle House PA ) main line.
Brown is a political reform activist who has organized and held a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in favor of PA medical marijuana bills HB 1393 and SB 1350.
The Penn Central's ( formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad, or PRR ) Buffalo-Corry ( PA )- Pittsburgh line formerly operated through Silver Creek.
From November 16, 1896, through June 1936 Greenwod was served by the New York & Pennsylvania Railway ( and predecessors ) as part of its Canisteo NY to Ceres NY ( via Greenwood NY, Genesee PA, Oswayo and Shingle House PA ) main line.
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