The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-06

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 battle of Antietam,
Sept II, 1862 At the battle of Malvern
Hill, July l, 1862, Sergt. 'Whittrick, Eighty
second Pennsylvania Volunteers, captured
the flag of a South Carolina regiment,
who piled up their dead to resist the at
tack OF BuCserlield's Brigade. The flag
of the Sixteenth South Carolina Nolun-
teers was captured by Capt. J. W. Scott,
Company d, one Hundred and Fifty-sev-
enth Pennsylvania Volunteers, from the
hands of the color bearer on the line dur
ing the engagement Of April !, 1865, al Five
Forks, Va"
Tennessee troops contributed five flags
to the collection, and Texas troops four.
The battle flags of the First and Four
by the Fourteenth Connecticut al Gettys-
burg, July g. 1868, and that of the First
Tennessee Battalion at Chickahominy,
June II, 1862, by Sergt John Marks, Com
pany d, Thirteenth New FORK Volunteers.
The colors of the Seventh Tennessee Reg
iment were captured by Private Mathew
Company c. Sixty-first Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, who also made a prisoner of the
color sergeant OF the Texas trophies the
Confederate battle flag of the Texas Bri-
ade was taken at Sharpsburg, Sept H.
1862, by the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves.
The Confederate battle flag of the First
Texas Infantry was captured by Lieut.
Martin A. Reed, Company D, Eighth New
York Volunteers, in battle at Appoma ttox,
April 8. 1866
The state Of Virginia was a battlefield
from 1861 to 1865, and it was inevitable
that her troops should bear the bruut of
the conflict and suffer the heaviest losses.
Among these We're a good many stands
OF colors, fifty-one of which still remain
in the collection in the war department.
Among them are the Confederate battle
flags Of the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth. Seventh, Eighth Ninth, (0
and Tenth Infantry, and the Third and
Fifth Cavalry Volunteers. The flag of
/ the Second, which belonged to the old
"StonewalP' Brigade, was inscribed with
the names of thirteen battles before it
was captured by the Thirty-seventh Mas
sachusetts Volunteers at the battle of
Winchester, Sept. 49, 1861 In an engage
ment near Nineveh, Va, Nov. 12 1854, the
Fourteenth Virginia Cavalry (Confeder-
ate) encountered the First Virginia Cav
airy (Union), and the rag of the former
inscribed God Armeth the Patriot" was
| captured by Private J. f. Adams of Com
pany ID of the latter regiment. The stir
ring legend attached to No. 276 of the
collection reads as follows:
'Colors of Thirteenth Virginia captured
by Private George j. Shapp, Company E.
19lst Pennsylvania Volunteers, who, being
on the skirmish line and seeing the enemy
rallying a line of battle on the colors
sprang forward along with a dsmounted
cavalryman, and ordered surrenders A
Confederate officer called on his men to
shoot the two Yankees, whereupon the
cavalryman was shot dead. Private
Shapp then shot the Confederate officer
and seized the colors for the bearer, at
the instant the skirmish line of the Third
Brigade, Second division, Fifth Army
Corps, charged on the line of battle. fed"