Culpeper

One comes to mind on the House side where you had Doug Ollivant, who is the Republican running in Virginia's seventh congressional House race.

That's Prince William County, just south of Fairfax, into Fredericksburg, out toward Culpeper, wanting to debate.

And the incumbent Democrat, Eugene Vindman, not wanting to debate at all, never agreeing to anything.

So it's like the Democrats don't want to appear on stage and take any questions or be held accountable by their voters.

So I grew up in that area, went to high school down there, and then kind of bounced around all of Virginia.

I've been in the northern Virginia area and like the Fredericksburg area and Orange out west towards the Culpeper region.

And then we moved back here in June of last year, back to the Richmond area.

I went to VCU, got my bachelor's there in psychology, and then I got my master's online at Capella University.

working at an assisted living facility for adults that experienced schizophrenia and all different types of kind of mental health conditions.

And then after that, I think I moved, I worked in a, uh, oh my gosh, just going down the resume here.

What did I do after that? I got a job in Culpeper and I was a psychosocial rehab I think I did that.

And I was there for about eight years.

You used – a couple times you used the word overwhelm.

And I know that going into Culpeper on Route 3, there's – right before you get to 29, there's a data center there.

And it will overwhelm – you look at that.

And in talking to people in Culpeper, they have said to me, yeah, that's one of – there's three more of those going in.

And you can see where all of a sudden – Buildings

of that size can overwhelm.

As the rebel commissariat found great difficulty in keeping more than four days' rations on hand at a time, Stoneman's raid would almost necessarily force Lee to fall back on his depots and give up Fredericksburg.

One column under Averell was to attack Culpeper and Gordonsville, the other under Buford to move to Louisa Courthouse and thence to the Fredericksburg Railroad.

Both columns were to unite behind the Pamunkey, and in case our army was successful, Stoneman was directed to plant his force behind some river in an advantageous position on Lee's line of retreat, where he could detain the rebel army until Hooker could again assail it and compel it to surrender.

A brave program.

On the 27th, the storm having abated, Meade's corps, the 5th, Howard's corps, the 11th, and Slocum's corps, the 12th, the whole being under the command of General Slocum, left camp for Kelly's Ford, each accompanied by three batteries.

A detachment was thrown over in boats on the evening of the 28th, which dispersed the picket guard, and by the next morning the entire force was across the river and on their way to the Rapidan, the 5th Corps taking the direction of Ellie's Ford, and the 11th and 12th Corps that of Germania Ford.

Stoneman's cavalry crossed at the same time with the others and moved to Culpeper, where he halted for a time to reorganize his force and get rid of surplus horses, baggage, etc., which were sent to the rear.

The next day Averell kept on to Rapidan Station with 4,000 sabers to engage W.H.F. Lee's rebel brigade so that it could not interfere with the operations of the main body, which moved southeast across Morton's Ford and Raccoon Ford to Louisa Courthouse, where the work of destruction was to begin.

I mean-

Did you sell the Culpeper house?

It is under contract right now.

Congratulations.

So it's a very interesting dynamic there, and we're starting to see...

I mean, really the outer suburbs of the DC area are Culpeper.

It, it...

There are plenty of people living in Greene and working in Northern Virginia, 'cause I ride on 29 and I see them going north on 29.

And so it was a very defining...

You know, going to Waycross, Georgia my first summer and Culpeper, Virginia my second summer was a, was a very defining, uh-

That's tough business, but that's good sales training.

You'll find out whether you can do sales or not doing that, I bet.