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The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
From the trailside marker:
August 30, 1862
3:30 p.m.
3rd Brigade (Butterfield), First Division (Morell)
Fifth Corps (Porter), Army of the Potomac, USA
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
Capt. Thomas F. McCoy
“The whole brigade went back pell mell together. It is probable that as many men were lost in the retreat as in the advance.”
– Capt. Amos Judson
See more on the history of the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War