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The Third Brigade trailside marker is on the Second Bull Run battlefield outsde Manassas, Virgnia. It is along the Chinn Ridge trail, which starts at Stop Ten on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
From the marker:
August 30, 1862
5:30 p.m.
Second Division (Ricketts)
Third Corps (McDowell)
Army of Virginia, USA
Third Brigade
Col. John W. Stiles
12th Massachusetts – 83rd New York
13th Massachusetts – 11th Pennsylvania
“Our boys dropped like tenpins before an expert player. Ten feet to my left the tall sergeant of Company F sank down in a heap, shot squarely through the head. Franks went down with a bullet through the face. Stevens was swearing like mad, shot through the thigh. A man I did not recognize dropped just in front. I heard the bullets chug into his body; it seamed half a dozen struck him. I shall never forget the look on his face as he turned over and died.”
-Pvt. George D. Paine
13th Massachusetts
USA Second Battle of Manassas
