Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • The Armies
The Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, on July 21 was the first large battle of the Civil War. Most of Joseph Johnston’s Army of the Shenandoah came from Winchester to join Beauregard in time to help defeat the Federals. Johnston was the senior officer but did not assume command immediately as Beauregard knew the battlefield and the plan. After the battle Johnston assumed command of the combined armies, which reorganized on July 25 after the battle.
Army of the Potomac – General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Chief of Staff – Colonel Thomas Jordan
Chief Engineer – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Williamson
Chief of Signals – Captain Edward Porter Alexander
Headquarters Escourt – Lay’s Squadron Virginia Cavalry: Captain John F. Lay
First Brigade – Brigadier General Milledge L. Bonham
8th Louisiana Infantry Regiment – Colonel Henry B. Kelly
11th North Carolina Volunteers – Colonel Wiliam W. Kirkland
2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel Joseph B. Kershaw
3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel James H. Williams
7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel Thomas G. Bacon
8th South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash
Alexandria (Va.) Battery – Captain Delaware Kemper
1st Company Richmond Howitzers – Captain John C. Shields
30th Virginia Cavalry, Companies C & G – Colonel R.C.W. Radford
Second Brigade – Brigadier General Richard S. Ewell
5th Alabama Infantry Regiment – Colonel Robert E. Rodes
6th Alabama Infantry Regiment – Colonel John J. Seibels
6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment – Colonel Isaac G. Seymour
Washington Artillery, 1st Company – Captain Thomas L. Rosser
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. F – Captain James Wilson
Cavalry Battalion (Goochland Light Dragoons and Governor’s Mounted Guards) – Lieutenant Colonel Wiliam H. Jenifer
Third Brigade – Brigadier General David R. Jones
17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment – Colonel Winfirld S. Featherston
18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment – Colonel Erasmus R. Burt
5th South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel Micah Jenkins
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company H – Captain Joel W. Flood
Washington Artillery, 2nd Company – Captain Merrit B. Miller
Fourth Brigade – Colonel G. H. Terrett (to 7/2), Brigadier General James Longstreet
5th North Carolina State Troops – Lieutenant Colonel J.P. Jones (to 7/2), Colonel Duncan McRae
1st Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Patrick T. Moore
11th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Samuel Garland
17th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Montgomery D. Corse
Washington Artillery, 3rd Company – Lieutenant John J. Garnett
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. E. – Captain Edgar Whitehead
Fifth Brigade – Colonel Philip St. George Cocke
8th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Eppa Hunton
18th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Robert E. Withers
19th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel John B. Strange
28th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Robert T. Preston
49th Virginia Infantry Regiment (3 cos.) – Colonel William Smith
Schaeffer’s Virginia Infantry Battalion – Captain F. B. Schaeffer
Loudon (Va.) Battery – Captain Arthur L. Rogers
Lynchburg (Va.) Artillery – Captain H. G. Latham
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. B – Captain John S. Langhorne
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. D – Captain G. W. H. Hale
Sixth Brigade – Colonel Jubal A. Early
7th Louisiana Infantry Regiment – Colonel Harry T. Hays
13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment -Colonel William Barksdale
7th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel James L. Kemper
24th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Peter Hairston
Washington Artillery, 4th Company – Lieutenant Charles W. Squire
Seventh Brigade – Colonel Nathan G. Evans
2nd Louisiana Battalion – Major Chatham R. Wheat (w 7/21), Lieutenant Thomas Adrian (w 7/21), Lieutenant Colonel Charles de Choiseul
4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel J.B.E. Sloan
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. I – Captain John D. Alexander
30th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Co. A – Captain William R. Terry
Davidson’s (Va.) Battery – Lieutenant G. S. Davidson
Eighth Brigade – Brigadier General Theophilus Holmes
1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Colonel James F. Fagan
2nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment – Colonel William Bate
Purcell (Va.) Artillery – Captain R. Lindsay Walker
Hampton’s (S.C.) Legion – Colonel Wade Hampton (w 7/21), Captain James Conner
Army of the Shenandoah – General Joseph Edward Johnston
Chief of Artillery – Colonel William N. Pendleton
Chief Engineer – Major William H.C. Whiting
First Brigade – Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson
2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel James W. Allen
4th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel James F. Preston
5th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Kenton Harper
27th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel J. Echols
33rd Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Arthur C. Cummings
1st Rockbridge Artillery – Captain William Nelson Pendleton
Second Brigade – Colonel Francis S. Bartow (k 7/21)
7th Georgia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell
8th Georgia Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William M. Gardener (w 7/21)
1st Kentucky Infantry Battalion (to Manassas 7/21) – Lieutenant Colonel H. Blanton Duncan
2nd Kentucky Battalion Sharpshooters (to Manassas 7/21) – Major J.D. Pope
Wise (VA) Artillery Battery – Captain Ephraim G. Alburtis, – First Lieutenant J. Pelham
Third Brigade – Brigadier General Barnard E. Bee (mw 7/21)
4th Alabama Infantry RegimentColonel Egbert J. Jones (mw 7/21), Major Charles Lewis Scott (w 7/21), Captain Thomas Goldsby
2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment – Colonel William C. Falkner
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment – Colonel William H. Moore
1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment – Colonel Peter Turney
6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment – Colonel C.F. Fisher
Staunton (VA) Artillery – Captain John D. Imboden
Fourth Brigade – Colonel Arnold Elzey (to 7/21), Brigadier General Edward Kirby Smith (w 7/21), Colonel Arnold Elzey (to B.G.)
E. Kirby Smith’s 5th Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah and two regiments from the 2nd Brigade were held up by rail tranportation shortages at Piedmont station and did not make it to Manassas in time for the battle. Smith went on ahead and was given temporary command of the 4th Brigade, which had no general officer and was commanded by its senior colonel, Arnold Elzey. Smith was badly wounded during the battle and Elzey resumed command, doing such a capable job that President Davis gave him a battlefield promotion to brigadier general.
1st Maryland Infantry – Lieutenant Colonel George H. Steuart
Third Tennessee Infantry Regiment – Colonel John C. Vaughn
10th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Simeon B. Gibbons
13th Virginia Infantry Regiment – Colonel Arthur Powell Hill
Newtown Artillery – First Lieutenant R.F. Beckham
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1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment – Colonel J.H. Drake, Colonel James Ewell Brown Stuart