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Chapter 5: operations along Bull Run.
Immediately after the battle of the 21st a portion of our troops were moved across
Bull Run and the former line north of that stream was re-occupied.
The army at that time was known as the “Army of the Potomac,” and
General Beauregard's command was reorganized as the 1st corps of that army, with the same brigade commanders as before.
I was promoted to the rank of brigadier general to date from the 21st of July, and was assigned to the command of a brigade composed of the 24th Virginia Regiment, the 5th North Carolina State Troops,
Colonel Duncan K. McRae, and the 13th North Carolina Volunteers (subsequently designated the 23rd North Carolina Regiment),
Colonel John Hoke.
The greater part of the army was moved to the north of
Bull Run, but I resumed my position on the right of the
Junction at my former camps, and remained there until the latter part of August, when I moved to the north of the
Occoquon, in front of
Wolf Run Shoals, below the mouth of
Bull Run.
Our line was extended from this point by Langster's cross-roads and Fairfax Station through Fairfax Court-House.
Hampton's Legion was composed of a battalion of infantry, a battalion of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, and remained south of the
Occoquon on the right, and watched the lower fords of that stream and the landings on the
Potomac immediately below Occoquon.
Evans had occupied
Leesburg.
Captain W. W. Thornton's company of cavalry had been again attached to my command and subsequently, in the month of September, a battery of
Virginia artillery under
Captain Holman reported to me. In the latter part of August,
General Longstreet, who had command of the advanced forces at Fairfax Court-House,
