Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-19
strike for Your Affairs and Your Fire

strike for Your Affairs ana Your FIRE
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COLONEL TAKEN WITH FLAG.
kentucky Is represented by single
flag. that of the Sixth Infantry Nolun-
teers, which, together with the colonel or
the regiment, was captured at the battle
of Jonesboro', September l. 1864. The six
Louisiana flags in the collection were all
taken amid the smoke OF battle. That
of the Eighth Volunteer Infantry was
captured in a hand-to-hand fight IN the
trenches" at Rappahannock Station, Va
November Z, 1868, by Sergeant Roberts,
OF the Sixth Maine Volunteer Infantry.
The battle-hag of the Thirteenth Louis
lana was taken in one Of the battles or
the wilderness, May IL, 1864, by Sergeant
William Jones, Company A, Seventy-thlrd
New York Volunteers, and Corporal John
I. Reynolds, Company +, Fourth Excel
sior Regiment, Birney's Division, Second
army corps. Sergeant Jones was after
ward killed"-presumably in the same
battle.
Mississippi contributed twelve flags and
colors TO the collection. The legend
attached TO No. 10 OF the collection, reads
as follows: Confederate battle-hag OF
the Second Mississippi, captured with the
entire regiment OF the Sixth Wisconsin
Volunteers. and was kept TWO days ~
Sergeant Evans, while a prisoner In the
hands Of the enemy" Missouri Is repre-
sented by single flag. that Of the Tenth
Battery. which was captured with It's
bearer" at Columbus, Ca, April Is, 1865,
by Private Kinney. Fourth Iowa Cav
airy. who "had q struggle with the
bearer for its possession"
North Carolina regiments SUFFERED
heavily. not only in losses OF officers
and men in battle, but in flags and
colors-twenty-nin in all. One Of these.
that OF the Thirty-ninth North Carolina
Infantry, was found by men OF the
Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps,
after the capture OF Spanish Fort, Ala
bama. April g. 1866" Another, that OF
the Forty-sixth North Carolina Vo!un-
teers. was picked up on the picket line
by Lieutenant Brant, First New Jersey
Volunteers" The collection contains
three battle-hags OF the Twenty-eighth
North Carolina-one captured May IL.
1864; one in an engagement near Malvern
Hill. July IS, 1864, by Private Samuel
Malleck. Ninth New York Cavalry, and
a third. the date Of capture OF which Is
not noted.
The hattle-fag OF the Twenty-second
North Carolina. which was captured by
Private Michael McDonough, Forty-se-
cond New York Volunteers. is thus In
scribed: Seven Pines, Mechanicsville,
Cold HArbor. OK Hill, Harper's Ferry.
Charlottesville, Sharpsburg, F'raziers
Farm, Cedar Mountain, Manassas, Fred
ericksburg."
OF the ten flags OF South Carolina
troops found In the collection, several
were captured, only after desperate Tight
ing, the captor in at least one case being
killed before he could carry or the
trophy. He was Private Hare, Company
D, Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers.
who took the flag OF a South Carolina
regiment "at the stone WALL In the bat
tie of Antietam, September II. 1862. At
the battle Of Malvern Hill, July l, 1852,
Sergeant Whittrick. Eighty-second Penn
sylvania Volunteers. captured the flag OF
a South Carolina regiment, who piled up
their dead to resist the attack" OF But
terfeld's Brigade. The flag OF the Six
teenth South Carolina Volunteers was
captured by Captain J. w. Scott, Com
pany d, 18th Pennsylvania Volunteers,
from the hands Of the color-bearer on
the line during the engagement OF April
1, 1866, at Five Forks, Va"
Tennessee troops contributed five flags
to the collection, and Texas troops four.
The battle-fags OF the First and Four
teenth Tennessee Infantry were captured
by the Fourteenth Connecticut at Get
First Tennessee Battalion at Chicka-
hominy, June q. 1862. by Sergeant John
Marks. Company d. Thirteenth New
York Volunteers. The colors OF the Sew
enth Tennessee Regiment were captured
by Private Mathew. Company c, Sixty
first Pennsylvania Volunteers. who also
made a prisoner OF the color sergeant.
OF the Texas trophies, the Confederate
battle-nag OF the Texas Brigade, was
taken at Sharpsburg. September IT. ls62,
by the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves.
The Confederate battle-hag OF the First
Texas Infantry was captured by Lieu
tenant Martin A. Reed. Company ID.
Eighth New York Volunteers. in battle
at Appomattox. April 5. 1855.
The State OF Virginia was battlefield
from 1861 10 1865. and IL was inevitable
that her troops should bear the brunt
OF the conflict and suffer the heavy
losses. Among these were good many
stands OF colors. fifty-one OF which still
remain In the collection IN the war De-
partment. Among them are the Confed-
crate battle-fags OF the First. Second.
Third Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh.
Eighth, Ninth ca. and Tenth Infantry.
and the Third and Fifth Cavalry Yolun-