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Civil War re-enactors, musicians and authors will gather in Sperryville June 3 and 4 for the second annual Sperryville Civil War Days, a weekend commemorating the historic years of the War Between the States, 1861-65.
The events of the first weekend in June will bring the sights, sounds, and memories of the war years to the historic village, where uniformed Confederate and Union soldiers will erect their tents and living history displays and a few famous generals will stroll along Main Street. Banjos, guitars, fifes and drums will bring the music of the 1860s to the commemoration, and authors of Civil War books will discuss their works.
The events of the weekend are sponsored by the Old Sperryville Bookshop, where authors will discuss and sign their books and musicians will play inside and outside the old former Episcopal church that houses the book store. All the events are free and open to the public.
“Virginia was the very epicenter of the Civil War, which defined what kind of nation the United States would become,” James P. Gannon, owner of the book store and organizer of Sperryville Civil War Days, commented. “While no major battles were fought in Rappahannock County, there were numerous raids and skirmishes, and the county was a crossroads for the passage of large armies. Sperryville in the summer of 1862 was the headquarters of a Union army of nearly 20,000 men, whose camps covered the area like huge tent cities. There were three times as many Union soldiers here then as there are people in the county today.”
It is those events of the war years that are commemorated in story, song and displays during Sperryville Civil War Days. Uniformed men with muskets will again camp in the village and engage in a skirmish—but this time they won’t take over people’s homes, clean out their food pantries or steal their livestock, as the Yankee soldiers did in 1862.
The men in the tents this time will be the Old Dominion Rifles, a Confederate re-enactor unit otherwise know as Company H Of thfe 17UT Virginia Infantry Regiment. The original Old Dominion Rifles company was formed in early 1861 in Alexandria, Va., which is home to sev
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