Attack at Deep Cut

More than 6,000 Union soldiers under General Fitz John Porter attacked across the road and into the fields of Lucinda Dogan's farm, where Confederate artillery on the neighboring Brawner Farm shattered their formations as they crossed the open ground and climbed the far ridge. The fighting peaked near the Deep Cut, the deepest part of the unfinished railroad bed, where opposing troops fired blindly over the protective embankment and some men threw rocks. Unable to withstand fire from the front and flank and losing hope of reinforcement, the battered Union regiments withdrew, and in less than an hour the largest Federal attack of Second Manassas had failed.

Virginia · United States