The Confederate prisoners on the balcony seem to be taking their situation
very placidly. They have evidently been doing some family laundry, and
have hung the results out to dry. The sentries lounging beneath the
colonnade below, and the two languid individuals leaning up against the
porch and tree, add to the peacefulness of the scene. At the battle of
Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1861, the above with other Confederates were
captured and temporarily confined in this county town of Culpeper. Like
several other Virginia towns, it does not boast a name of its own, but is
universally known as Culpeper Court House. A settlement had grown up in
the neighborhood of the courthouse, and the scene was enlivened during the
sessions of court by visitors from miles around.