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The 2nd New Hampshire trailside marker is on the Matthews Hill Loop Trail which begins at Stop 4 on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
Text from the marker:
July 21, 1861
11:00 a.m.
2nd Brigade (Burnside), Second Division (Hunter)
Army of Northeastern Virginia, USA
Col. Gilman Marston
“With the 71st New York State Militia on its left, the 2nd New Hampshire rushed to the front, and opened its store of buck and ball on the enemy. In front of the 2nd the rebels were well covered from view by the dense brush along a line of rail fence in the edge of the woods; but the men aimed low and blazed away. It was a square stand-up fight.”
-Pvt. Martin Haynes
See more on the history of the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.
