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The trailside marker for Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery is at Stop Two on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
The trailside marker for Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery is at Stop Two on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
From the marker:
August 28, 1862
6:30 p.m.
1st Division (King), Third Corps (McDowell),
Army of Virginia, USA
Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery
Capt. Joseph B. Campbell
Six 12-pounder Napoleons
“Campbell’s pieces came up on the gallop, these fences along the pike being torn down to let them pass into the field. With shells bursting about them, they were placed in position and began to reply rapidly from the knoll from where I had first caught sight of the enemy’s guns.
– Brig. Gen. John Gibbon
Cannon at Battery Heights. Between the trees in the distance is the ridge on Brawner’s Farm where “Stonewall” Jackson’s men fought.
See more on the history of Battery B, 4th United States Artillery in the Civil War.