r country.
In this first great battle in Virginia many officers served, on both sides, who afterward became distinguished, or famous.
On the Confederate side were Johnston, Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, Stuart, Fitz Lee, Longstreet, Kirby Smith, Ewell, Early, Whiting, D. R. Jones, Sam Jones, Holmes, Evans, Elzey, Radford and Jordan—all graduates of West Point.
Among those holding inferior positions, but subsequently distinguished, were Munford, Kirkland, Kershaw, Rodes, Featherston, Skinner, Garland, Corse, Cocke, Hunton, Withers, William Smith, Hays, Barksdale, Kemper, Wheat, Terry, Hampton, Shields, Imboden, Allen, Preston, Echols, Cumming, Steuart, A. P. Hill, Pendleton, and others.
Stuart, on the 21st, followed the retreating Federals 12 miles beyond Manassas, when his command was so depleted by sending back detachments with prisoners, that he gave up the pursuit and returned to encamp near Sudley church.
He advanced to Fairfax Court House on the morning of the 23d, an
try regiment (Williams' Rifles): Dooley, John, major; Fry, William H., lieutenant-colonel; Langley, Frank H., major, lieutenant-colonel; Moore, Patrick T., colonel; Mumford, William P., major; Norton, George F., major; Palmer, William H., major; Skinner, Frederick G., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Williams, Lewis B., Jr., colonel.
First Infantry regiment State Line: Berkley, Henry M., lieutenant-colonel; Nighbert, James A., major; Radford, Richard C. W., colonel.
First Militia regimarles E., colonel; Wotring, Daniel E., major.
Fifty-second Infantry regiment: Baldwin, John B., colonel; Harman, Michael G., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Lilley, John D., major, lieutenant-colonel; Ross, John D. H., major, lieutenant-colonel; Skinner, James H., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Watkins, Thomas H., major, lieutenant-colonel.
Fifty-second Militia regiment: Carter, Hill, colonel; Christian, Bat. D., major; Valden, Vulosko, major.
Fifty-third Infantry regiment (formed from Tom