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Two trailside markers for the 15th Alabama Infantry are on the Manassas battlefield marking the regiment’s positions on two different days of the battle. One is on the Brawner Farm loop trail at Stop One on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. A second is not far away on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
From the trailside marker:
August 28, 1862
7:15 p.m.
Trimble’s Brigade, Ewell’s Division
Left Wing (Jackson)
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
15th Alabama Infantry
Maj. A. A. Lowther
“My position in line at this fence was in the immediate rear of Alonzo Watson. We were both on our knees, he firing through a crakc, and I firing over the top of the fence. My left elbow was at once time resting on his shoulder when all at once I heard a “thud” and poor ‘Lonzo began to relax and sink, exclaiming in a low tone ‘Oh Lordy, I am a dead man.’ These were his last words. I didn’t move, and kept loading and firing until the fight was over.”
-Sgt. William A. McLendon
CSA Second Battle of Manassas
See more on the history of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.