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Events will include Civil War music, discussions of Civil War books by their authors, and a street fair with vendors and displays on Main Street.
The new Virginia historic marker, a black-and-silver cast-metal sign, now stands at the edge of Route 522 in a grassy lot adjacent to the Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church, which graciously agreed to provide a place for the marker in its historically appropriate site.
General Sigel, in 1862, took over the home “Oak Hill” that stood atop the slope overlooking the new marker.
The new historic marker is headlined “Pope’s Army of Virginia,” referring to the Union Army organized in 1862 under Mqjor General John, Pope. It explains that Pope’s command brought together the three corps commanded by Generals Sigel, Nathaniel P. Banks and Irvin McDowell. General Pope selected Rappahannock County as the place to organize and drill this new army before heading into the campaign of Second Manassas, which ended in a severe defeat for the Union army and the removal of General Pope from' command.
Sperryville was literally surrounded and engulfed by Pope’s blueclad soldiers, who brought tneir hundreds of wagons, cannons, horses, tents and equipment to the county.
General Sigel’s three divisions occupied Sperryville and vicinity,
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