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The 13th New York Infantry trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
The marker looks back across the open field where Union forces charged the Confederate position at the Deep Cut. The Second Bull Run marker is immediately behind the photographer.
Text from the trailside marker:
August 30, 1862
3:15 p.m.
1st Brigade (Roberts), First Division (Morell)
Fifth Corps (Porter), Army of the Potomac, USA
13th New York Infantry
(“Rochester Regiment”)
Col. Elisha G. Marshall
“The Rebel infantry poured in their volleys, and we were scarcely a dozen feet from their muzzles of their muskets. Oh, it was terrible! For twenty minutes the shattered regiments held the slope swept by a hurricane of death, and each minute the bullets hummed like swarming bees, and then those yet alive and able to do so received orders to fall back. We who fell – the dead, dying, and the disabled – held the field.”
– Cpl. John S. Slater
Location of the marker
The marker is next to the Second Bull Run Monument (Groveton Monument) about 0.3 mile from the parking area along the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.