Order of Battle – CSA

FIRST BULL RUN CAMPAIGN

ORDER OF BATTLE

Confederate

B = Biographical Sketch D = Diaries M = Memoirs N = Newspaper Accounts OC = Official Correspondence OR = Official Report PC = Private Correspondence

Army of the Potomac

Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard (M, OC1, OR1, OR2 Pt 1, OR2 Pt 2, OR3,)

Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG)

• Col. T. Jordan (OR)
• Capt. C. H. Smith

Acting Assistant Quartermaster (AAQ)

• Maj. Cabell

Commissary

• Col. R. B. Lee

Signal Officer

• Capt. E. P. Alexander  (OR, PC1)

Engineer

• Col. Williamson

Medical

• Chief Surg R. L. Brodie

Artillery

• Col. S. Jones

Aides-de-camp (ADC)

• Col. Chesnut
• Col. Chisolm
• Col. Hayward
• Col. Manning 
• Col. Miles
• Col. Preston
• Col. Rice
• Capt. D. B. Harris
• Capt. W. H. Stevens
• Lt. W. Ferguson
• Lt. H. E. Peyton

Headquarters Escort

• Capt. John F. Lay, Powhatan Troop (OR)
  • Capt. K. E. Utterback, Little Fork Rangers

First Brigade

Brig. Gen. Milledge L. Bonham (OR1, OR2)

• Col. Lay, AAG
• Col. Kemper, AAQ
• Lt. Washington, AAQ
• Maj. Kennedy, Chief Commissary
• Maj. Walton, Military Secretary
• Gen. Hagood, ADC
• Gen. McGowan, ADC
• Col. Aldrich, ADC
• Col. Lipscomb, ADC
• Col. Simpson, ADC
• Maj. Butler, ADC
• Maj. Davies, ADC
• Maj. M. B. Lipsocmb, ADC
• Maj. Tompkins, ADC
• Capt. A. Moss, ADC
• Capt. Nyles, ADC
• Capt. Stevens, ADC
• Capt. Venable, ADC

11th NCV (later 21st NCI)

• Col. W. W. Kirkland (OR)

2nd SC

• Col J. B. Kershaw (OR1, OR2)
• Unknown (1) (PC)
• Unknown (2) (PC)
  • Co. I
    • Unknown (1) (PC)
    • Unknown (2) (PC)

3rd SC

• Col. J. H. Williams (OR1, OR2)

7th SC

• Col. T. G. Bacon (OR1, OR2)

8th SC

• Col. E. B. C. Cash (OR1, OR2)
  • Lt. Col. J. W. Henagan (OR)

8th LA (N)

• Col. H. B. Kelly (Not in Johnston’s OOB)
  • Co. B – Capt. A. Larose (N)

30th VA Cav

• Col. R. C. W. Radford (OR1, OR2)
  • Lt. Col. T. T.Munford (OR) (M)

Alexandria Light Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. D. Kemper (OR1, OR2)

1st Company Richmond Howitzers (4 Guns)

• Capt. J. C. Shields

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. Richard S. Ewell (OR, PC1, PC2)

• Lt. Col. Charles Humphrey Tyler, AAAG
• Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, AAAG
• Capt. Charles H. Rhodes, AQM
• Lt. George Campbell Brown, ADC (M)
• Cadet John Taliaferro, ADC
• Robert F. Mason, ADC
• Edgar A. Hudnut, Clerk

5th AL (D)

• Col. R. E. Rodes (OR)
  • Company D
    • W. C. Tunstall (B, PC)

6th AL

• Col. J. J. Seibels
  • BHB (PC)

6th LA

• Col. J. G. Seymour
  • Co. E – 1st Sgt. John Tobin (PC)

Cavalry Battalion

• Col. J. G. Jenifer

Washington Artillery (4 Guns)

• T. L. Rosser

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. David R. Jones (OR1, OR2)

• Lt. Latham, AAAG
• Capt. Coward, AAQ
• Capt. Curfell, AAQ
• Capt. Ford, AAQ
• Capt. Taylor, AAQ
• Lt. McLemore, AAQ

17th MS

• Col. W. S. Featherstone (OR)

18th MS

• Col. E. R. Burt (OR)

5th SC

• Col. Micah Jenkins (OR)

Flood’s Company, 30th VA Cav

• Capt. J. W. Flood

Washington Artillery (2 Guns)

• Capt. M. B. Miller

Fourth Brigade

Brig. Gen. James Longstreet (OR1, OR2)

• Lt. Armistead, AAAG
• Lt. P. T. Manning, AAQ
• Col. Lubbock, ADC
• Col. Riddick, ADC
• Col. Terry, ADC
• Capt. Chichester, ADC
• Capt. Goree, ADC (PC1, PC2)
• Capt. Sorrel, ADC
• Capt. Thompson, ADC
• Capt. Walton, ADC

5th NCI

• Col. McRae
• Lt. Col. Joseph P. Jones (OR)

1st VA

• Col. Moore
• Maj. F. G. Skinner

11th VA

• Col. S. Garland

17th VA

• Col. M. D. Corse (OR1, OR2)

24th VA

• Col. P. Hairston

Company E, 30th VA Cav

• Capt. E. Whitehead (OR)

Washington Artillery (2 Guns) (N)

• Capt. Garnett

5th Brigade

Col. Philip St. George Cocke (OR)

• Capt. Harris, Chief Engineer

8th VA

• Col. E. Hunton (M, OR)

18th VA

• Col. R. E. Withers (OR)

19th VA

• Col. P. St. George Cocke
• Lt. Co. J. B. Strange

28th VA

• Col. R. T. Preston (OR)
  • Co. H – Pvt. William C. Kean (PC1, PC2)

49th VA (Battalion)

• Col. W. Smith (M, OR)

Schaeffer’s Independent Battalion (N1, N2)

• Cpt. F. B. Schaeffer (N1, N2)
  • Beauregard Rifles (N)
  • Crescent Blues (N1, N2, N3)
  • New Market Volunteers (N)

Loudon Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. Arthur L. Rogers (OR)
  • Lieut. Henry Heaton

Lynchburg Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. H. Grey Latham (OR)

Wise Troop (Cavalry Company)

• Capt. John S. Langhorne (OR)
  • Lt. Charles Minor Blackford (PC, M)

6th Brigade

Col. Jubal A. Early (OR1, OR2)

• Capt. Gardner, AAAG
• Lt. Willis, ADC

7th LA

• Col. H. T. Hays
  • Co. B – L. D. (PC)
  • Co. H. – Pvt. John Stacker Brooks (N)

13th MS

• Col. W. Barksdale

7th VA

• Col. J. L. Kemper

Washington Artillery (5 Guns) (N)

• Lt. C. W. Squires (OR)
• Lt. J. B. Richardson
• Lt. J. B. Whittington

7th Brigade

Col. Nathan G. Evans (B, OR)

• Capt. A. L. Evans, AAAG
• Capt. McCausland, ADC
• Capt. Rogers, ADC

1st Special LA Battalion (N1, N2, N3)

• Maj. C. R. Wheat (W) (OR)
• Lt. Allen C. Dickinson, ADC (N)
  • Co. B (N)
  • Co. D
    • Pvt. D. P. Gibson, (PC)
  • Co. E
    • “W.” (PC)

4th SC

• Col. J. B. E. Sloan (OR)

Alexander’s Troop, 30th VA Cav

• Capt. J. D. Alexander (OR)

Terry’s Troop, 30th VA Cav

• Capt. W. R. Terry (OR)

1 Section Lathams Artillery (2 Guns)

• Lt. George S. Davidson (OR)
• Lt. Clark Leftwich (PC)

Reserve Brigade

Brig. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes (OR)

• Lt. Walker, AAAG

1st AR

• Col. J. F. Fagan

2nd TN

• Col. W. Bate

Purcell Artillery (6 Guns)

• Capt. L. Walker

Albemarle Light Horse

• Capt. Eugene Davis
• Major John Scott

Hampton’s SC Legion (6 Companies)

Col. Wade Hampton (W) (OR); Capt. J. Conner (PC1, PC2)

• Unknown 1 (PC)
• Unknown 2 (PC)
• Unknown 3 (PC)
  • Co. A
    • Chaplain W[ashington]. L[ight]. I[nfantry]. (PC)
    • William C. Heriot (PC)
    • Charles W. Hutson (PC)
    • John E. Poyas (PC1, PC2)
    • Unknown 1 (PC)
    • Unknown 2 (PC)
    • Unknown 3 (PC)

Harrison’s Battalion of Cavalry (4 Companies)

• Maj. Julian Harrison

Camp Pickens Battery

• Capt. I. S. Sterrett
  • Capt. William King (PC1, PC2)

Army of the Shenandoah

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston (M, OR1, OR2)

Acting Adjutant General (AAG)

• Brig. Gen. E. Kirby Smith
• Maj. Thomas Grimke Rhett (OR)

Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG)

• Capt. Thomas L. Preston

Acting Assistant Quartermaster (AAQ)

• Maj. McLean

Commissary

• Maj. Kearsley

Engineer

• Maj. William Henry Chase Whiting

Artillery

• Col. W. N. Pendleton (OR)

Ordnance

• Col. Thomas

Aides-de-camp (ADC)

• Col. Cole
• Col. Duncan
• Maj. Dees
• Capt. Fauntleroy
• Capt. Mason
• Lt. James B. Washington

1st Brigade

Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (OR, PC)

• Col. F. B. Jones, AAAG
• Lt. A. S. Pendleton, Ordnance
• Capt. Marshall, ADC
• Lt. T. G. Lee, ADC
• Cadet N. W. Lee, ADC
• Cadet Thompson, ADC

2nd VA (M)

• Col. J. W. Allen (OR)

4th VA (M)

• Col. J. F. Preston

5th VA

• Col. K. Harper
  • Co. L – Capt. J. H. Waters (OR)

27th VA

• Lt. Col. J. Echols

33rd VA (8 Companies) (M)

• Col. A. C. Cummings (M1, M2, PC1, PC2)
  • L. Jacquelin Smith, AAG
  • Sgt. Major Randolph Barton (M, PC)
    • Co. A – Pvt. John O. Casler (M, PC)
    • Co. H
      • 4th Sgt Harrison B. Jones (D)
      • Pvt. Martin Van Buren Kite (PC)

Rockbridge VA Artillery (4 Guns)

• Col.W. N. Pendleton (OR)
  • Capt. J. B. Brockenborough
    • Artilleryman Clement Fishburne (PC)

2nd Brigade

Col. Francis Bartow (K)

• Brig. Gen. S. R. Gist, ADC
• Col. Shingler, ADC
• Maj. Stevens, ADC

7th GA

• Lt. Col. L. J. Gartell
  • Co. K – Capt. Charles K. Maddox (PC)

8th GA

• Lt. Col. W. M. Gardner
  • Co. A – Virgil Stewart (M)
  • Co. B – P. W. A. (PC)

Wise Artillery (Alburtis’ Battery) (4 Guns)

• Capt. E. G. Alburtis
  • Lt. John Pelham (PC)

3rd Brigade

Brig. Gen. Barnard E. Bee (K)

Maj. William H. C. Whiting placed in command after the battle (OR)

• Capt. T. L. Preston, AAAG
  • Brig. Gen. S. R. Gist
  • Maj. R. A. Howard
  • Capt. A. Vander Horst (Gist, Howard, & Vander Horst filed this OR for Bee’s Brigade, but are not listed on any OOB as part of Bee’s staff)

4th AL (M)

• Col. Egbert J. Jones (MW)
• Lt. Col. Evander M. Law (W)
• Maj. Charles L.Scott (W)
• Capt. Thomas J. Goldsby (OR)
• Unknown (PC)

2nd MS

• Col. W. C. Falkner

11th MS (Companies A & F)

• Lt. Col. P. F. Liddell

6th NC (Not Brigaded) (N)

• Col. C. F. Fisher (K)
  • Co. E – Lt. J. A. McPherson (PC)

Staunton Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. J. Imboden (M, OR)

4th Brigade

Brig. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith (W); Col. Arnold Elzey (OR)

• Lt. Chentney, AAAG
• Lt. McDonald, AAQ
• Col. Buist, ADC
• Capt. Cunningham, ADC
• Capt. Hill, ADC
• Capt. Tupper, ADC
• Lt. Contee, ADC

1st MD Battalion (M)

• Lt. Col. G. H. Steuart
• Unknown Officer (PC)

3rd TN

• Col. J. C. Vaughn

10th VA

• Col. S. B. Gibbons
  • Co. H – M. V. B. Kite (PC)
  • Co. K (M)

13th VA (Left at Manassas)

• Col. A. P. Hill

Newtown Artillery (4 Guns)

• Capt. George. A. Groves
  • Lt. R. F. Beckham

Not Brigaded

1st VA Cav

• Col. J.E.B. Stuart (OR)
  • Co. C – Pvt. William Z. Mead (PC)

Thomas Artillery (Stanard’s Battery) (4 Guns)

• Capt. P.B. Stanard

Affirmation, Baby?

Today I listened to Pete Carmichael, author of Lee’s Young Artillerist and The Last Generation, on Gerry Prokopowicz’s Civil War Talk Radio program recorded Feb. 2.  (That’s Pete’s photo from the UNC Greensboro site to the left.)  During the idle banter preceding a fascinating interview on aspects of southern society before and after the war, Gerry asked Pete where his loyalties lay for Super Bowl XLI.  Pete – a fellow Penn Stater whom I met on an alumni tour of Fredericksburg a few years ago – plead allegiance to the Colts.  He also said that Colt quarterback Peyton Manning was indeed named for the James Longstreet staffer featured in A 100 Pound Quarterback?

Pete’s statement was made with no qualifiers, no “may have beens”.  I hope that he may stumble across this blog one day and see fit to expound on this.  While I find the circumstantial evidence highly suggestive, I stop short of being certain.   I looked for an autobiography authored by Archie and Peyton when I was at Barnes & Noble the other day, but had no luck.

I do agree with Pete in his assertion that many modern studies of Civil War soldiers’ motivations inappropriately downplay the role of ideology.  In fact, at the end of the above referenced tour a discussion in Fredericksburg National Cemetery along these lines became a little heated, with Pete taking the minority position that the role of Union soldiers in “sacking” the town in December, 1862 was in large part politically, or ideologically, motivated.  I found his argument convincing, but I admit to a predisposition to do so – I thought those arguing against his position were perhaps too hung up on the motivations of 20th century American soldiers.  I guess I’ll have to move The Last Generation up on my “to read” list.

A 100 Pound Quarterback?

 

This coming Sunday’s Super Bowl match up features teams representing two states that were loyal to the Union in the late unpleasantness.  However, one team’s offense is led by prolific passer and son of the south Peyton Manning.  I for one am glad to see the Colts in the championship.  I’m a lifelong Steelers fan (Colts head coach Tony Dungy once caught and threw an interception in the same game when he played for Pittsburgh, and he got his coaching start here as well), and will be rooting for the AFC come game day.  And you have to love Peyton’s commercials: “They’re not saying ‘Boo’; they’re saying ‘Moooovers’” and my favorite “De-Caf (thump thump), De-Caf (thump thump)”.

Now, there are a lot of similarities between studying history and watching football.  Perhaps one of the most irritating similarities is that (relatively) high paid analysts in both fields have a penchant for judging decisions by their results.  Throwing into double coverage is a bonehead move if it results in an interception, but is brilliant if the ball goes through the DB’s hands and results in a touchdown.  Don’t laugh – the number of Civil War studies that rely on similar methodology is legion.

This particular game offers a chance to discuss something that has bugged me for some time: why in God’s name did Peyton’s dad Archie decide to name his child Peyton?  I suppose it might be reasonable to guess that he may have been thinking “Anything but Archibald”.  But then, why not Quimby?  Or Larry?

Some students of the American Civil War are aware that both the Peyton and Manning names were “big” in the Confederacy.  At various times, Mannings commanded four infantry regiments in the Army of Northern Virginia, the 49th & 50th Georgia, the 3rd Arkansas, and the 6th Louisiana.  Peytons commanded the 5th and 19th Virginia.  Out west, Peytons headed the 3rd Mississippi Infantry, Major Peyton’s Cavalry Battalion, and the 3rd Missouri Cavalry.

Mannings and Peytons served in staff positions in the Army of Northern Virginia as well.  Virginian Jacob Hite Manning was signal officer to James Longstreet and, presumably, to R. H. Anderson.  One time governor of South Carolina John Laurence Manning served as a volunteer ADC to Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard at First Bull Run and later in December 1862.  Henry E. Peyton of Missouri was an ADC to Beaurgeard at First Bull Run, and would later serve on the staff of Robert E. Lee.  Virginia brothers Moses G. and Thomas G. Peyton did time as staff officers as well, Moses as volunteer ADC to Robert Rodes and as AAG to Rodes, Stephen D. Ramseur and Bryan Grimes, and Thomas  as AAAG to Richard Ewell.  Another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson Peyton, served as Acting Assistant Inspector General for G. W. Smith and as AAIG and Ordnance Officer for John C. Pemberton.  And someone named William H. Peyton served in the capacity of AQM in Staunton, VA in 1861.

Four other Mannings were in other rebel armies, assisting generals Cantey, J. E. Johnston, S. D. Lee, Twiggs, and Wheeler.  Three more Peytons also worked for J. P. Anderson, Hood, H. B. Lyon, and J. S. Williams.

Now, that’s a whole lot of Peytons and a whole lot of Mannings.  Archie Manning, the most famous of all (‘Ole Miss) Rebel quarterbacks, was born in Drew, Mississippi.  It seems likely that Archie is the result of some long ago (or not so long ago) conjoining of a Manning and a Peyton.  Possible evidence of this theory may be found 160 miles from Drew in the town of Aberdeen, MS.  That’s the birthplace of the man listed on the Confederate order of battle for First Bull Run as James Longstreet’s acting assistant quartermaster, Lt. Peyton Thompson Manning.

Described in the memoir of John C. Haskell as “a little man, weighing not over 100 pounds” and a fine horseman, ”Manny” (as T. J. Goree referred to him) was born in 1838 and attended the Georgia Military Institute.  “Befo de woah” he was a railroad engineer.  He signed on as a sergeant in Co. I of the 11th MS Infantry in February, 1861, and was later commissioned a lieutenant in the regiment and a major in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS).  I’m guessing he went east with the 11th MS to muster into Confederate service at Lynchburg, VA; two companies of the 11th would be with Barnard Bee during First Bull Run.  Manning was assigned to Longstreet’s staff and, except for a brief stint on the staff of J. E. Johnston, would serve on it for the remainder of the war, primarily as Ordnance Officer.  He is famous in Confederate literature for a mis-adventurous sleigh ride with fellow Longstreet staffer G. Moxley Sorrel during the winter of 1861-62, and for nearly choking on a sweet potato when slightly wounded at Chickamauga.  He also served as a cannoneer at Antietam in “Battery Longstreet”, thrown together by the General when the crew of a battalion of the Washington Artillery were shot down.  Francis W. Dawson recalled that Manning was “exceedingly kind and considerate”, easy to work with, gentlemanly and “brave as a lion.”  But “he knew very little of his work as an ordnance officer, and was unable to write an ordinary letter correctly.”

At war’s end, Manning returned to his wife Julia Watson in Aberdeen, and died there on February 3, 1868 at the age of 30 or 31.  He is buried in Odd Fellows’ Rest Cemetery in Aberdeen.

I haven’t been able to track down any images of Peyton Manning the staff officer.  If any reader (Archie?) has an image or other information on him, please let me know via the comments section of this site.  I’ll update here with any new information I receive.

By the way, that was Elijah Peyton who was Lt. Col. of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry.  But that’s another story for another Super Bowl – maybe.

  

Sources:

Crute, J., Units of the Confederate States Army

Krick, R. E. L., Staff Officers in Gray

Krick, R. K., Lee’s Colonels

Goree, T. J., Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree

Govan & Livengood, ed., The Haskell Memoirs

Longstreet, J., From Manassas to Appomattox

Sorrel, G. M., Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer