15th Alabama infantry trailside markers

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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. The first is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. A second marker is on the Brawner Farm loop trail, a short distance away. The 15th Alabama 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
3:15 p.m.

Trimble’s Brigade (Brown)
Ewell’s Division (Lawton)
Left Wing (Jackson)
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

15th Alabama Infantry
Maj. A. A. Lowther

“On the right the Federals were in an old field in plain view, and the 15th Alabama got in some deadly work at a right oblique. The Federals just simply jammed up against the embankment opposite the right of the 15th. They were so thick that it was impossible to miss them. What a slaughter! What a slaughter of men that was.”
– Sgt. William A. McLendon

CSA Second Battle of Manassas

The 15th Alabama Infantry trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. See more on the history of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.