24th New York Infantry trailside marker

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The 24th New York Infantry trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour. The regiment lost Major Barney, 3 ofther officers and 48 men killed and 1 officer and 14 men mortally wounded in the fighting along the Unfinished Railroad. Captain Melzar Richards of Company D was wounded. The regiment also lost 6 other officers an 89 enlisted men wounded and 2 officers and 57 enlisted men missing or captured in the two days of fighting. Captain John D. O’Brien took command of the regiment after the death of Major Barney.

From the trailside marker:

August 30, 1862
3:15 p.m.

1st Brigade (Sullivan), First Division (Hatch)
Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

24th New York Infantry
(“Oswego Regiment”)
Maj. Andrew Barney

“Those of us on the embankment were too few to even attempt to drive out the Confederates on the other side, and accordingly lay as flat to the slope as we could, crawling occasionally to the top, and discharging our muskets, held horizontally over our heads. Bullets were pouring in from the infantry beyond us. Our second line gave way and ran back to the cover of the woods, leaving us on the embankment to our fate.”
– Cpl. Theron Haight

USA Second Battle of Manassas

The 24th New York Infantry trailside marker is on the Deep Cut loop trail at Stop 7 of the Manassas Battlefield Driving Tour.

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