Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • Facts • The Armies
The First Brigade (The Stonewall Brigade) trailside marker is on the Brawner Farm loop trail at Stop One on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
From the trailside marker:
August 28, 1862
7:00 p.m.
Jackson’s Division (W. B. Taliaferro)
Left Wing (Jackson)
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
First Brigade
(The Stonewall Brigade)
Col. William S. Baylor
2nd Virginia 5th Virginia
4th Virginia 27th Virginia
33rd Virginia
“Here one of the most terrific engagements that can be conceived of occurred. Our troops held the farmhouse while the enemy held the orchard. To the left our men stood in the open field without shelter of any kind. For two hours and a half, without an instant’s cessation of the most deadly discharges of musketry, round shot and shell, both sides stood unmoved, neither advancing and neither yielding until at last, about 9 o’clock the enemy slowly and sullenly fell back.”
– Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro
CSA Second Battle of Manassas
