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whom we lost. He was one of four who volunteered to set fire to a house in our front, which was thought to afford protection to our enemy, and advancing alone between the two fires, he fell midway, pierced in the forehead by a musket ball. Henry L. Wyatt is the name of this brave soldier and devoted patriot. He was a member of the brave and gallant First North Carolina regiment. It is generally admitted that young Wyatt was the first Confederate soldier killed in action in Virginia during tWyatt was the first Confederate soldier killed in action in Virginia during the civil war. The firing of the howitzer batteries, Magruder said, was as perfect as the bearing of the men, which was entirely what it ought to have been. Magruder left his cavalry at Big Bethel, but marched the remainder of his forces back to Yorktown. His cavalry pursuit of the Federals continued for 5 miles, to New Market bridge across the southwest branch of Back river, which the flying enemy had destroyed. He wrote in concluding his report: Our means of transportation were exceedingly
lliam R., colonel Twenty-fifth Cavalry regiment: Edmundson, Henry A., lieutenant-colonel; Hopkins, Warren M., colonel; McConnell, Sylvester P., major. Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion Local Defense Troops: Bossieux, Louis J., major; Elliott, Wyatt M., major, lieutenant-colonel. Twenty-fifth Infantry regiment: Duffy, Patrick B., lieutenant-colonel; Harper, Wilson, major; Heck, Jonathan M., lieutenantcol-onel; Higginbotham, John C., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Lilley, Robert D., ms F., colonel; Ross, D. Lee, lieutenantcol-onel; Taylor, James A., major. One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Militia regiment: Terril, George P., colonel One Hundred and Sixty-second Militia regiment: Fleisher, B. H., lieutenant-colonel; Abbitt, Wyatt, colonel One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Militia regiment: Morris, Robert P., colonel; Richardson, John H., colonel. One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Militia regiment: Darst, James H., major. One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Militia regiment: Row