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By James P. Gannon
Rappahannock News Writer
In the second summer of the Civil War, Harper’s Weekly carried a news article datelined “Sperryville, July 18, 1862,” which reported the arrival of the Union Army of Virginia in and around the Rappahannock County village that was to become its camp and headquarters for several weeks.
The newspaper reported that the Army Corps of Mayor General Franz Sigel, nearly 12,000 men strong, had marched into Sperryville a week before. General Sigel had made his headquarters “in a house and the grounds about it, on a hill near the village.” The newspaper included a page of artists’ sketches of the Union troops moving through Thornton Gap and the village of Sperryville itself.
On Saturday, June 2 Civil War reenactors and members of the Blue Ridge Civil War Round Table will dedicate a new Virginia highway marker recently erected at the foot of the hill where General Sigel made his headquarters 139 years ago. The ceremony - will formally open Sperryville Civil War Days, the twoday commemoration of the 1861-65 war that had such profound impact on all of Virginia, including Rappahannock County.
The third annual Civil War Days weekend will be centered in the historic village, where re-enactors will set up tent camps and conduct drills, demonstrations and a skirmish.
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