First Bull Run Confederate order of battle

Second Brigade
BG Richard S. Ewell

5th Alabama: Col Robert E. Rodes
6th Alabama: Col John J. Seibels

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Numbers 95. Report of Brigadier General Richard S. Ewell, commanding Second Brigade, First Corps.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE,

Union Mills, July 24, 1861.

SIR: In conformity with Special Orders, Numbers 145, headquarters Army of the Potomac, I have the honor to report that upon the morning of July 21, 1861, I first received orders to hold myself in readiness to advance at a moment's notice. I next received a copy of an order sent to General Jones and furnished me by him, in which it was stated I had been ordered at once to proceed to his support.

I immediately commanded crossing my brigade oven Bull Run, but whilst so doing received an order to fall back to my former position, which I did, and a short time afterwards received another, brought by Colonel Terry, aide-de-camp, to cross again, proceed up the run, and attack a battery of the enemy upon its flank and rear, regulating my movements upon the brigades of General Jones and Longstreet. I again crossed the stream, and had proceed about a mile and a half in execution of the order when i was stopped by an order to march at once to stone bridge, following General Holmes' brigade. which had already been ordered to proceed to the point.

I deem it proper to state that the courier said he had been accom-
panied by an aide-de-camp whose horse had given out before reaching me. I countermarched and marched at once to headquarters in the field, remained in reserve at that point until ordered back to Union Mills, which I reached after a long and fatiguing march the same night.

My brigade consisted of Rodes' Fifth Alabama, Seibles' Sixth Alabama, Seymour's Sixth Louisiana, a battery under Captain Roses, the Washington Artillery, and four companies of cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Jenifer. The infantry would hardly have got back that night but for the excitement of hearing that the enemy were in possession of the ford. As connected with this, i send a report of a skirmish on the 17th, of Colonel Roades' regiment becoming engaged and checking the enemy, owing to the non-reception of the order to fall back on their appearance.*

Very respectfully,

E. S. EWELL,
Brigadier-General.

Colonel THOMAS JORDAN, Assistant Adjutant-General
OR Vol. 2, pp. 536/7