1st Massachusetts Infantry
Second Battle of Manassas
August 29, 1862
3:00 p.m.
1st Brigade (Grover), Second Division (Hooker)
Third Corps (Heintzelman),
Army of the Potomac, USA
1st Massachusetts Infantry
Col. Robert Godwin
“Without artillery and without supports, our men advanced. We reached a railroad bank when from the rear of the embankment arose the enemy. They poured a tremendous volley into our lines. The effect was terrible. Men dropped in scores, writhing and trying to crawl back, or lying stone-dead where they fell. The Union line began to waver and sullenly fell back into the forest again.”
- Chaplain Warren Cudworth
Marker can be reached from Featherbed Lane (County Route 622).
Courtesy hmdb.org
