Culpeper, VA (November 1863)

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The village of Culpeper is situated on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, about seventy-five miles from Washington. Sheltered by the Blue Ridge, the surrounding country was very productive, and after the establishment of railroad communication, the place grew rapidly in size and importance. Its first serious injuries were received in Gen. Pope's retreat from the Rapidan, when many of its buildings destroyed, and nearly all stripped of their contents. Both armies alternately occupied it, and calvary repeatedly fought about it, till the village, once the pride of its district, became a ruin, and the fruitful fields an area of desolation.

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War - Plate 48