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First Wounded
and Captured
Rappahannock County_ owns the distinction of having its native sons the first soldier to be wounded and the first to be captured in the Civil War, according to a story which appeared in the June 2, 1927, edition of the Virginia Star.
One week after Virginia seceeded in the spring of 1861, The Old Guard of Rappahannock County, one of the first military units to be called to the Confederate colors, left home for attachment to Ewell's command, quartered at the Fairfax Court House.
Peyton Anderson and William Lillard, both Rappahannock boys, were assigned to picket duty on Falls Church Road with instructions to fire two shots of warning and retreat to Fairfax if they sighted the enemy.
But the Union soldiers managed to get within striking distance without setting off an alarm. At daybreak, Anderson and Lillard found themselves surrounded by a detachment of the Second New York Cavalry which had marched out from Washington, D.C.
In the skirmish that followed, Anderson was severely wounded. He fell from his horse and was left for dead, lying unconscious until about 4 p.m. when he was able to stagger to a nearby farm house for aid. He recovered and served under Mosby.
Lillard was taken to Washington, D.C., the first Confederate prisoner of
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