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was quartered at Fairfax Court House. Orders were given to guard all roads leading into Fairfax and two young privates, both natives oi Rappahannock County, Peyton Anderson and William Lillard were assigned to pickiet duty on the Falls Church road, with instructions to fire two shots of warning and retreat to Fairfax if they sighted the enemy.
At daybreak Anderson and Lillard were surrounded suddenly by a detachment from the ®2nd New York Cavalry. In the skirmish which ensued, Anderson was so severely wounded that he fell from his horse and was left on the field for dead. Lillard was taken to Washington, the first Confederate prisoner of war.
Anderson was wounded in the right arm, shivering the bone from shoulder to elbow. He lay unconscious until 4 o’clock, when he was able to stagger to a nearby farm house for aid. He was taken to Fairfax and put in a room at the hotel where he was attended by local physicians. He later reccfered sufficiently to serve under Col. Mosby.
This Saturday, May 27th will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Confederate soldier to shed blood in the War Between the
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