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The “7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment” trailside marker is on the Brawner Farm loop trail at Stop One on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
Text from the marker:
August 28, 1862
7:00 p.m.
4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)
Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA
7th Wisconsin Infantry
Col. William W. Robinson
“We soon found that we had to deal with General Ewell’s whole division of picked men. We advanced within hailing distance of each other, then halted and laid down, and my God, what a slaughter! No one appeared to know the object of the fight, and there we stood on hour, the men falling all around; but we got no orders to fall back, and Wisconsin men would rather die than fall back without orders.”
– An Unknown Wisconsin Soldier
USA Second Battle of Manassas
Location of the 7th Wisconsin Infantry trailside marker
The marker is along the Union Line trail that starts at the Brawner Farm, Stop One on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour, about 475 yards east of the trailhead at the Brawner Farmhouse. (38°48’48.8″N 77°33’38.0″W)