Second Brigade
Second Battle of Manassas
August 29, 1862
5:30 p.m.
2nd Brigade (Birney), First Division (Kearny)
Third Corps (Heintzelman),
Army of the Potomac, USA
4th Maine Infantry
Col. Elijah Walker
40th New York Infantry
Col. Thomas W. Egan
101st New York Infantry
Col. Nelson A. Gesner
“We advanced within 30 yards of the enemy, who held a railroad cutting some 15 feet deep with precipitous sides. The men began their work in deadly earnest. After nearly three quarters of an hour firing, our cartridges were nearly exhausted. We resorted to cold steel to drive the enemy out. We sprang forward with a yell, plunged into the cutting, and drove the enemy through the woods.”
- Adjutant Theodore A. Dodge
101st New York
Marker can be reached from Featherbed Lane (County Route 622).
Courtesy hmdb.org
