The National tribune., 1881-10-01

dred and Fourth Ohio are set down as having
taken five each; the first New York Dragons
three.
Other regiments were probably equally or per-
haps more successful even than those named, and
no invidious distinction is intended by not men
tioning them Want of data alone prevents due
credit being given.
In the list of captures, every State having
Union troops in the field, WITH it may be, Cali
fornia, Oregon. Nevada the Territories, and pos
sibly Rhode Island excepted, is represented.
E. A. Briggs, Second Connecticut Heavy Artil-
lery, captured battle flag at Petersburg, April
2, 1865.
j. B. Mayberry, Of the First Delaware, got away
with the standard Of the Seventh North Carolina
on the Sd of July, 1863, at Gettysburg
Lieutenant S. F. Joslyn, of the Thirteenth Hi
nois Cavalry, took in the flag of the Eighteenth
Alabama at Mission Ridge, November %, 1868.
Captain Blake, Ninth Indiana, captured the
flag of the First Georgia at Cheat River, July Is,
| 1861.
J. p. Miller Company D, and Charles A. Swan,
Company K, Fourth Iowa. captured the colors
and color-bearer of the Twelfth Mississippi at
Selma, Ala, April 3 1865.
The Seventh Kentucky Cavalry (Union), in a
gallant charge against double their numbers of
Buford's Confederate brigade, near Montgomery,
Ala. April ,, 1865 made itself the possessor of a
stand of colors, and April IA preceding, near
Blakely, in the same State Thomas Riley, of
Company d, First Louisiana (Union) Cavalry,
did the same for himself.
F. G. Anderson of the Eighteenth Massachu-
sets Infantry captured the colors of the Twenty
seventh South Carolina; and the Thirty-second
Massachusetts gobbIed up similar trophy on
the 1st day of April, 1865, at Five Forks, Va;
while the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts did itself
honor at Winchester, on a prior occasion, by cap
turing the colors of the Second Virginia. then
part of the old ''Stonewall Brigade"
The Fifth Maine Infantry made several con-
quests and o. C. Roberts, of the Sixth Maine, in
hand-to-hand conflict at Rappahannock Station
took possession of the flag belonging to the
Eighth Louisiana
Pat McCran, of Company c, Third Maryland
captured the flag of the Second Georgia Battery,
which is pierced by twenty eight bullets three
through the staff.
The First Michigan Cavalry captured "South-
ern Cross" from the Fourth Virginia at Falling
Waters, Md, November "a, 1864 Ulrck Croker,
Vi ule CAlu looh tIlt StduudIu
of the Eighteenth Georgia. and the Tenth Michi-
gan Infantry followed suit by taking that of the
Nineteenth Georgia, December IS, 1862.
Albert Essen, of the Second Minnesota, cap
tured the flag of the "Yallabusha Rifles" near
Cumberland Nd January 10, 1862.
At the battle of Sharpsburg, September II,
1862. Isaac Thompson, of the Twentieth New
York State Militia, after shooting down the
bearer, ran forward and brought off stand of
the enemys colOrs.
The One hundred and twenty-sixth New York
captured two flags, one at Champions Pass, Md,
the other at Gettysburg.
At the battle of Lookout Mountain Tennessee, |
Sergeant F. n. Potter, Company E, One hundred
and forty-ninth New York, engaged in a hand |
to-hand fight with the bearer and brought off
Confederate standard, to place beside another one
which his regiment had captured but a few
minutes earlier
July %, 1864, near Malvern Hill, Virginia, S. |
L. Mallick, of the Ninth New York Cavalry |
made a trophy of the colors carried by the !
Twenty-eighth North Carolina, and at Win
chester, September 49, of the same year, A J. |
Lorish, commissary sergeant, and Chester B. |
Bowen, Company 1, First New York Dragons,
each captured Confederate battle-flag, as did |
Lieutenant W. W. Winnegar, of Company B, of
the same regiment at Five Forks, April 1 of the
succeeding year.
At Champions Pass, Md. September IA, 1862,
the Fourth New Jersey took possession of the
colOrs belonging to "Cobb's Legion" Georgia.,
and the flag of the Eighteenth North Carolina |
fell into the hands of Frank Fesey, Fortieth New
Jersey, April 2, 1865.
An Ohio man was never yet known to refuse
to take anything he could lay hands upon, and
hence the Second Ohio regiment, Colonel A. G.
McCook commanding, took the flag of the Thirty
eighth Alabama at Missionary Ridge, November
26, 1868; and at the same time and place the
Sixty-ninth Ohio gobbled the guidon Of Fergu-
sons Battery, and yet, not content, picked up
and walked off with three pieces of artillery be-
longing to the same organization. Meanwhile,
in order to further uphold the Buckeye reputa-
ton, the One hundred and fourth Ohio appro-
priated from the hands of the enemy five diff
ferent flags all captured within the space of a
few months
Well WE'LL there is good deal in the matter
of education, even in the method of taking
things"
Pennsylvania leads off well, Jacob Cart of the
Seventh Reserves having captured the battle
flag of the Forty fourth Georgia; Sam Johnson,
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