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Gateway
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Street, storm drains on the north side of Main Street, and the reconfiguration of the street to eliminate its crown and direct drainage to the north.
He also discussed sidewalk and lighting improvements,
Gannon
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Washington, and General Robert Milroy’s brigade of 2,700 men occupied Woodville. McDowell posted a division of about 9,000 soldiers on the Rappahannock River near Waterloo bridge, completing the Union occupation of the county.
The Harper’s Weekly article reported that the Sperryville troops engaged in “constant drill” for a weelc, culminating in a “grand review” on July 17.
About three weeks later, Pope’s army marched south into Culpeper County to engage the Confederate forces under Major General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, a
Rrelude to the grand clash at lanassas in late August.
General Pope was enthusiastic in his view of Rappahannock County.
In his memoirs, he wrote that he caught his first glimpse of the Blue Ridge from Warrenton, where he stopped for the night after riding from Washington, DC, to join his army. “The moon was nearly full that night, the air came soft and cool from the not-distant hills and there was a deep silence and quiet upon the whole scene,” Pope wrote. “A more lovely landscape or a more charming country the eye of man has not looked upon....”
During his stay in the
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