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Two trailside markers for the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment 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.
Text 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
Location of the marker
The marker is along the Deep Cut trail that starts at the Groveton Monument parking area off of Featherbed Lane, Stop Seven on the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. The marker is about about 0.45 mile northwest of the trailhead. (38°48’48.8″N 77°33’38.0″W)