2nd New Hampshire Infantry

At 3:00 p.m. on August 29, 1862, the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry of the 1st Brigade under Grover, Second Division under Hooker, Third Corps under Heintzelman, Army of the Potomac, U.S.A., led by Col. Gilman Marston, charged over a railroad embankment after an exchange of Confederate musketry and Union cheers. The regiment drove the first Confederate line into a second and entered the most desperate fighting of the day, a hand-to-hand struggle with bayonets and clubbed muskets. It routed and scattered the second Confederate line and then struck a third, but the charge had lost its momentum. The 2nd held on until overwhelmed, and the men then broke away to avoid capture.

Virginia · United States