Battle of Aquia Creek Battle of Aquia Creek The Battle of Aquia Creek was an exchange of cannon fire between Union Navy gunboats and Confederate shore batteries on the Potomac River at its confluence with Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Virginia. The battle took place from May 29, 1861 to June 1, 1861 during the early days of the American Civil War. The Confederates set up several shore batteries to block Union military and commercial vessels from moving in the Chesapeake Bay and along the lower Potomac River as well as for defensive purposes. The battery at Aquia also was intended to protect the
Battle Creek Sanitarium Battle Creek Sanitarium The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, founded 1866 and originally based on the health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Following the disfellowshipping of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (the owner of the sanitarium) in 1907, Kellogg said that he and his employees were "independents" who "did not belong to any church" and the Sanitarium promoted Kellogg's theory of "biologic living" based on Adventist principles. The complex was purchased by the U.S. Army during World War II and converted into the Percy Jones Army Hospital. The facility later became