Rappahannock
a river of Virginia, rising in the Blue Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains, Allegheny Mountains, receiving the point it is sometimes called the North Fork), and flowing about 125 miles S. E. to Chesapeake Bay. It is tidal and navigable to Fredthe Rapidan were the scenes of some of the most sanguinary battles of the Civil War, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness.