8th Virginia Infantry

Colonel Eppa Hunton, commanding the 8th Virginia Infantry from Loudoun County and other areas of Northern Virginia, arrived at Ball's Bluff at about one p.m. and deployed at the edge of a small field, where the regiment joined the battle. Hunton later recalled that his men were repeatedly attacked during the day and fought hard to hold the position, withdrawing their line of battle about twenty yards after driving back each assault so they could use the protection of the woods and the crest of the hill. He said the enemy was strongly posted at the edge of the woods with two howitzers and one rifled cannon, and that at his regiment's first fire, nearly every man at the enemy's cannon was shot down.

Leesburg, Virginia · United States