but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did.

Upon receiving the news, Northern writers, editors, and clergymen heaped accusations of murder on the Southern states, particularly Virginia.

Because neither of them really wanted their marriage to break up, Mr. and Mrs. Black agreed to a series of interviews at Family Service of Northern Virginia, the agency nearest them.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

His first combat assignment was to lead the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps of the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia ( 26, 765 troops ) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

The Northern Bobwhite, Virginia Quail or ( in its home range ) Bobwhite Quail ( Colinus virginianus ) is a ground-dwelling bird native to the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.

With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.

One of the largest and oldest summer leagues in the United States is found in the Northern Virginia area where teams from 47 pools compete against each other every summer.

* Northern Virginia Swimming League – Diving

* The Leesburg Assembly is an English Country Dance community centered in Northern Virginia, USA.

HP ES operates in 60 countries, centered in the metropolitan areas of Dallas-Fort Worth ; Detroit ; Des Moines and Clarion, Iowa ; Salt Lake City ; Indianapolis ; Winchester, Kentucky ; Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Boise, Idaho ; and Northern Virginia in the United States.

The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution in January 1956, establishing a branch college of the University of Virginia in Northern Virginia.

He had nearly finalized a deal to sell the team to businessman William Collins, who planned to move them to Northern Virginia.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.

Early in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Stuart was promoted to major general on July 25, 1862, and his command was upgraded to the Cavalry Division.

* 1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5 – 7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Although the government had a comfortable majority and seemed set for a full term in office, a resumption of IRA activity in Northern Ireland and Britain caused internal strains ( see Border Campaign ).

This was led by groups like Campaign for Social Justice ( CSJ ), which became the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ).

On June 28, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign, the replacement covered bridge was burned by Columbia residents and the Pennsylvania state militia to prevent Confederate soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia from entering Lancaster County.

Intertwining his religious and political views, " Save Ulster from Sodomy " was a campaign launched by Paisley in 1977, in opposition to the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform ( Northern Ireland ), established in 1974.

McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862 ended in failure, with retreats from attacks by General Robert E. Lee's smaller Army of Northern Virginia and an unfulfilled plan to seize the Confederate capital of Richmond.

The Civil War Battle of Funkstown took place July 10, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign as Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia retreated toward Virginia in the week following the Battle of Gettysburg.

During the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfield played an important role in securing the Fairfield pass and the Hagerstown Road, enabling Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to retreat through Fairfield towards the Potomac River.

In the summer of 1863, the war touched close to home when Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia invaded lower Pennsylvania in what later became known as the Gettysburg Campaign.

From the PRR station during the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War, Union scout Stephen W. Pomeroy telegraphed the vital news to Governor Andrew Curtin that Robert E. Lee was concentrating the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.

He received a commission as a brigadier general on July 19, 1861, and served first as a brigade commander in the ( Confederate ) Army of the Potomac, and then in David R. Jones's division of the Army of Northern Virginia through the Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles, Northern Virginia Campaign, and Maryland Campaign.

He partially recovered his strength in time for the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run, in which he led his brigade, then assigned to Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell's corps of the Army of Virginia.

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

* Northern Luzon Campaign

On June 24, 1889, he was ordered to the Philippine Islands and during the Philippine-American War he participated in the Northern Campaign, and in battles at Arayat, Cabiao, San Isidro, Santa Rosa, and Talavera.

Refusing this opportunity — because of his loyalty to McClellan and because he understood his own lack of military experience — he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

In response to escalating levels of violence across Northern Ireland, internment without trial was introduced on 9 August 1971.

As the 2012 Northern Hemisphere Summer started to draw to a close, NOAA stated that El Niño conditions are likely to develop in August or September.

In the Southern Hemisphere, February is the seasonal equivalent of August in the Northern Hemisphere.

In some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day ( Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, " loaf-mass "), the festival of the wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year.

On 30 August, Ribbentrop and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano issued the Second Vienna Award giving Northern Transylvania to Hungary.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

In August 1940, Northern Transylvania was awarded to Hungary by Germany and Italy through the Second Vienna Award.

This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere.

* August 6 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman

* August 12 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

* August 14 – British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland following the 3-day Battle of the Bogside.

* August 28 – September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication.

* August 15 – Omagh bombing, A terrorist bombing carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real IRA.

* August 29 – The Northern Rugby Football Union ( now Rugby Football League ) is formed at a meeting of 21 rugby clubs in the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.

* August 2 – Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer

* August 5 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer

* August 9 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist ( b. 1810 )

* August 2 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by Ricimer ( magister militum ) as puppet emperor.

In August 1969, Northern Ireland cities like Belfast and Derry erupted in major rioting and British troops were called in at the request of the Government of Northern Ireland ( see 1969 Northern Ireland Riots ).

In August 1971, internment was reintroduced to Northern Ireland under the Special Powers Act 1922.

* On 13 August 1989, two hot air balloons collided at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia killing 13 people.

Charles John, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at Bornhöved in December.