Lt. Col. Garnett, 48Va, commanding 2d Bde, reported later that there were "acts of savage brutality perpetrated by the enemy upon our officers and men who fell into their hands temporarily as prisoners. Such fiendish barbarity is not to be found in the history of warfare among civilized nations." [48Va: 28E, 200-201]
Peyton Gravely, adjutant, 42Va, later sent a 42Va casualty list to the Lynchburg Virginian and appended the following: "Several of the officers and men of this Regiment who had been taken by the enemy and again re-captured, state that they were most brutally maltreated by the enemy and saw several of our men brutally murdered after being captured. " [42Va: 44, 862/08/26]
Capt Abner Dobyns, B/42Va, later wrote report of 42Va actions at Cedar Run. He wrote that on this day "A good many of the officers and soldiers of the regiment were captured by the enemy and again recaptured, and many of them severely wounded while in the hands of the enemy. Several officers and men of the regiment whom we recaptured...informed me that they were most brutally maltreated by the enemy, and saw many of our men brutally murdered after being captured." [42Va: 72f, 203-204]
William Hammond, E/42nd Va., who rejoined the company on 15 August, named in his diary the casualties his company suffered while “In hands of Enemy”: MWIA – J. Lefler; WIA – N. Smith, R. Morse, W. Blankenship [who later died of his wounds], and his half-brother, S.C. Hammond. [42Va: 146]
Stovall W. Weaver, K/42Va, wrote later that he was wounded this day by "a lick on the head with a breach of a musket," and captured [42Va: 9a8, S.W. Weaver]. J.H. Kropff, K/42Va, wrote later that he attended to Weaver after the battle and that Weaver had been wounded by a blow to the head after he had been captured [42Va: 9d5d, S.W. Weaver]
Capt. W.A. Witcher, 21Va, later reported on actions of 21Va this day, in lieu of Lt. Col. Cunningham, killed at Cedar Run. Witcher reported that 2Lt. T.W. Brown, was captured unhurt by the federals, but was afterwards found mortally wounded. Before dying, Brown told an officer of 21Va and one of the Irish Bn that the federals upon retreating had knocked him down and bayoneted him in several places. [42Va: 72f, 201-203].
Richmond Daily Dispatch, “[t]hrough the courtesy of an officer of the 2d Brigade, Jackson's Division, who left Gordonsville at 10 o'clock P. M. Monday [11 August 1862], we are placed in possession of further particulars with reference to the desperate fight at Southwest mountain on Saturday last,” later reported that on this day at Cedar Run:
“In the desperate struggle of the 2d brigade with an overwhelming force of the enemy, Lieutenant Brown, of company K, 21st regiment, was wounded, and when the brigade fell back left upon the field. When our forces recovered the position, Lieut. Brown called to an officer of the Irish battalion and asked for water, which was supplied him. Raising a little, he stated to this officer that he had been beaten over the head with muskets and bayonetted by the Federal troops, and if there had been any chance for his recovery from the wound received, they had destroyed it by their atrocious cruelty.--He at first wished to be carried from the field, but when the attempt was made, he was so much exhausted that he told the officer to let him remain where he was, as he had no hope of recovery. It is supposed that he died soon after.” [42Va: 123, 862/08/13]