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Virginia Cavalry, which in the spring of 1861 was stationed at the Fairfax County courthouse.
Orders were given to guard all roads leading into Fairfax. On a morning in May, Peyton Anderson and William Lillard were assigned to guard duty on the Falls Church road. Their instructions were to fire two warning shots and retreat to Fairfax if they saw the enemy.
The next morning Anderson and Lillard saw the enemy-on all sides! Warning shots were useless and a retreat was impossible. In the skirmish that followed, Anderson was seriously injured; he fell from his horse and was considered dead. Lillard, the first Confederate prisoner of war, was taken to Washington, D. C.
Unconscious most of the day, Anderson finally summoned the strength to hobble to a nearby farm house for help. The incident that morning was historic. Peyton Anderson was not just any wounded Confederate; he was thefirst wounded Confederate. The honor has not been allowed to fade.
On June 2, 1927, an editor of the Blue Ridge Guide, Rappahannock’s former newspaper, reprinted an article from the Washington Star, which told of a gathering on May 27, 1927 to “commemorate a hitherto unrecorded Civil
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