The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Second Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah

Duncan's Kentucky Battalion Infantry

MAJOR B DUNCAN

Company A Duncan Guards: CAPT. B HARVEY – Assigned to Company A, 1st Kentucky Infantry, on 7 August, 1861.
Company B Cornwall Guards: CAPT. M LA-PIELLE – Assigned to Company B, 1st Kentucky Infantry, on 7 August, 1861.
Company C Bustard Guards: CAPT. E CROSSLAND – Assigned to Company E, 1st Kentucky Infantry, on 7 August, 1861.
Company D Davis Guards: CAPT. C C BROWNSON – Assigned to Company F, 1st Kentucky Infantry, on 7 August, 1861.

Reference

"It arrived after a much faster run than the one to Manassas – this time it carried no load – and was ready for Bartow's Second Brigade men to start boarding the cars by sundown. He got the 7th amd 8th Georgia Regiments aboard but did not have room to mount the rest of the brigade, which left the 9th Georgia and the 1st Kentucky stranded for the time being."

"Apparently it departed shortly before or after Smith's engine, and carried the First Kentucky, the remainder of the Eleventh Mississippi, and probably the First Tennessee. They started out all right, but unexpectedly the engine suffered a collision – with what no one specified – and the cars could go no farther."

SOURCE: Battle at Bull Run, A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War by W C Davis

Confederate Military History, A Library of Confederate States History, written by Distinguished Men of the South Volume IX, edited by Clement A Evans

NOTES: Duncan's Kentucky Battalion Infantry was consolidated with Pope's Kentucky Battalion Infantry and designated as the 1st Kentucky Infantry at Manassas Junction on 7 August, 1861. Duncan's Kentucky Battalion Infantry was detained on route from Piedmont Station by a railroad collision, arriving at Manassas Junction late in the afternoonon of 21 July, 1861.

On 25 July 1861, the Army of the Shenandoah was reorganised and the battalion was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brigadier General W H C Whiting.