Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • Facts • The Armies
The 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment trailside marker is on the Brawner Farm loop trail at Stop One on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
Text from the trailside marker:
August 28, 1862
7:00 p.m.
4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)
Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA
19th Indiana Infantry
Col. Solomon Meredith
“The enemy was secreted under cover of a fence and did not make their appearance until we had approached to within 75 yards. Immediately upon our halting the enemy fired. Three different times they came up at a charge, but the 19th stood firm. They fell back to their fence each time.”
-Col. Solomon Meredith
USA Second Battle of Manassas
