Civil War
Anderson Family
Lillard Family
Latham Family
Grimsley Family ➔ Peyton Anderson first Confederate Soldier to be Wounded in the Civil War
Newspaper article
2018.1.45
Rappahannock News republication of a June 2, 1927 article originally printed in the VA Star. On June 1 of that year a monument had been set up two miles north of Fairfax, VA to commemorate the wounding of Peyton Anderson of Rappahannock County on May 27, 1861. Private Anderson was the first confederate wounded in the War. The plaque on the stone says "The first soldier of the South to shed blood for the Confederacy". Private Anderson and William Lillard were serving picket duty outside Falls Church when a skirmish broke out with members of the 2nd New York Cavalry. Anderson was so badly wounded that he was left on the field for dead, while Private Lillard was taken to Washington, the first Confederate prisoner of war.