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Jessie Gap is one of several gaps in the mountain range running from west to east in the Alice Springs region. Northern Territory, Australia.
Australian gap year participants and Israeli participants from the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hevruta Gap program participating in a 1 day seminar surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring narratives, how to create productive dialogue, and more.
Photos by Amy Albertson
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Thoroughfare Gap Battlefield is a historic American Civil War battlefield located at Thoroughfare Gap, Broad Run, Prince William County, Virginia. It was the site of the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap on August 28, 1862. The property includes a number of resources present at the time of the battle including the separately listed Beverley Mill, a five-story, coursed-rubble stone building set into the north side of Thoroughfare Gap. Meadowlands, the Chapman's house and the second Upper Mill are clearly visible on the landscape, as well as an important ice pit and a walled cemetery associated with the Chapman family.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 109 acres of the battlefield. The battlefield is accessible from a walking trail adjacent to the ruins of Chapman's Mill, located north of Interstate 66 on Beverly Mill Drive. Sharpshooters used the mill's upper floor windows to defend the pass. Historic and wayside markers are placed along Virginia Route 55 just south of the mill.
In the water, a crab trap that has taken a beating -- it's got gaps and won't hold the crabs. Above the water, a pier with gaps that can't be traversed on foot. The pelicans love the exclusivity of it -- the end of the pier is theirs alone. Theirs and some gulls, if the pelicans allow them. Dsc05772.Jpg
Thoroughfare Gap is a small water gap in the Bull Run Mountains and the location of the 1759 Beverley Mill. In 1862, it was an important objective, dividing the Virginia Piedmont from the mountain valleys further West. On August 26, 1862 Confederate Maj Gen Thomas Jackson led his corps of the Army of Northern Virginia through the gap to seize the Union supply depot at the Manassas Junction. In response, Union Maj Gen Irwin McDowell moved North to confront Jackson, leaving the Brig Gen James Ricketts's brigade and the 1st New Jersey Cavalry under Sir Percy Wyndham to plug the gap. While Wyndham seized the gap, Ricketts troops stopped for the night 9km to the West. On August 28, while cutting down trees to block the gap, Wyndham's cavalry were driven back by the Confederates of Maj Gen James' Longstreet's Corps, the remainder of Gen Robert Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Ricketts troops were hurried forward, but they were unable to take the gap before Longstreet's troops did. Ricketts settled immediately East of the Gap, plugging the way.
As he retained the high ground Longstreet sent his troops scrambling up the ridges on either side of Rickett's position. The 2nd and 20th Georgia of Col Henry Benning's brigade ran up the slopes on the west against the 13th Massachusetts, winning the race and driving down the 13th. Col Evander Law's brigade then began the same on the North, temporarily stymied by the 84th New York. However heavily pressured on both sides, and with Brig Gen Cadmus Wilcox moving through the undefended Hopewell Gap to the North, Ricketts broke contact and withdrew.
The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap was minor for all involved, with less than 100 casualties total, but it had major consequences in the Northern Virginia Campaign: Lee was now able to unite the two halves of his army, leading to a massive Union defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Harmarket, Virginia