Battles of Manassas • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments • Facts • The Armies
The “First Brigade (The Stonewall Brigade)” trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.
August 30, 1862
3:15 p.m.
Jackson’s Division (Starke)
Left Wing (Jackson)
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
First Brigade
(The Stonewall Brigade)
Col. William S. Baylor
2nd Virginia 5th Virginia
4th Virginia 27th Virginia
33rd Virginia
“The Federals came up in front of us as suddenly as men rising up out of the ground. Our commander, Colonel Will Baylor, seeing that our line was about to falter, ran and took the flag. Waving it, the gallant Baylor dashed forward ahead of the brigade shouting, ‘Boys, follow me!’ We did follow him, shouting and firing, only to see the brave man shot down, wrapped in the flag he carried, pierced by many bullets, and dead.”
-Capt. Edward Stickley
33rd Virginia
CSA Second Battle of Manassas
Location of the “First Brigade (The Stonewall Brigade)” wayside marker
The marker is along the trail which connects the Deep Cut trail with the Brawner Farm trail. From the parking area at Stop Seven take the Deep Cut trail 1/3 mile to the Groveton Monument. Take the branch of the trail that heads southwest (left) an additional 2/10 mile to the marker. (38°49’09.8″N 77°33’28.1″W)