Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-05-29
INTERESTING LETTER

Ian INTERESTING LETTER
This letter was sent to Col. E. +
Stickley, and will prove OF interest t
many of our readers:
Confederate Soldiers Home,
Ardmore, Okla, May IS, IA.
Capt. Stickley,
Dear Friend and Comrade:-I Sc
several articles in the Confederat
Veteran written by you, and am muc
interested in them. Especially tn
article in the May number about IN
Battle of Manassas. / was mem
Der of Co. A, 33rd Va. Stonewal
Brigade, Capt. Grace's company
from Hampshire, I know when Ger
Baylor was killed. He had our reg
mental flag in his hands when sho
down. Chaley Arnall was his Adj
and Chief of Staff. Afterwards whe
Capt Spengler was promoted to Ma
jor, then Lieut.. Col. he asked Charlie
if he would not like to have that fla
for a keepsake. Charley said b
would and would treasure it as lon
as he lived, Spengler gave it to hir
and got another. Charley was Bay
lor's Adjutant when he was Col. Q
the 5th.
In 1907, at our reunion in Nash
will, Tenn, l happened to meet Char
ley there. He was then living il
Atlanta, Ca, and told me all abou
the flag and circumstances connected
with it and had the flag there and
was carried in the the parade ant
had 33rd Va, in the center | alst
met him the next year at Atlant. Ga.
apd saw the flag. At Dallas reunion
dnring the parade Charley rode up tt
me and asked me if 1 would not lik'
to carry that flag as I was the only
one there of the 33rd, I told him
would be delighted. 1 took the flae
from his color bearer and carried j
and would wave it and boiler out tha
was the flag Gen. Baylor had wher
killed. The ladies on the side wall
would grab it and kiss it and wanted
to clip peices out, but I would moi
let them. Shortly afterwards Charley
from some cause unknown committed
suicide in Atlanta. | afterward in
quired about the flag and learned that
his widow sent it to our Brigade or
ganization in Stanton and Capt.
Bumgardner has it.
DID you not 60 into service in the
a3rd Va? My people all live in
Oklahoma City and ! lived there ever
since 1889 until this home was built
when l came here and have charge of
the park, lawn and flowers which we
are getting under way, about acres
of it. You must hava known Charley
Arnall we'll as you were on Baylor's
Staff
Give my respects to all the boys of
Shenandoah, as there were five COM
panies in the 33rd from that county
and many of them knew me. 1 stuck
TO her to the last and and was the
last member of the company when it
was disbanded. Then I went to Co.
D, 18th Va. Cavalry.
Give my love to Jim Lowtter and
kniesley, if they are alive. Would
like to hear from you again.
Fraternally,
JOHN o. easier,
Ardmore, Okla.
Care Soldiers Home.
The above letter fully explains how
,he flag of the 33rd Va. regiment was
Dent to the Stonewall Jackson Camp
IN Stanton. That camp very gen
with the consent of the donor,
gave the flag to the Shenandoah
Camp, because five companies of the
,3rd regiment were from Shenandoah
and the remaining five we're, one each,
rom the counties of Rockingham,
Page, Frederick, Hardy and Hamp-
shire and at the beginning Of the war
we're commanded by Capts. Sibert,
Allen, Gatewood, Walton, Crabill,
J. r. Jones, Rippetoe. F. w. NJ.
Holiday, Spengler and Grace.
On the 21st of July 1909, the Stone
wall Jackson camp delivered the flag
% the Shenandoah camp, Capt.
in a beautiful speech
made the present alton and the com
nanGer of the She nandoah Camp re
,ponded and the flag is now preserved
Is a valuable relic ia the Confederate
Hall at Woodstock.
When it was received its history
beyond the fact that it was the flag Of
the 33rd Reg't was not known.
The veterans of the BIRD Va. regi-
ment certainly feel under obligations
to cemrade J. o. Cassler for furnish.
ing the history of their old flag.
The fact that it was in the hands of
that gallant soldier. Gen. W. S. H.
Baylor when he received his mortal
wound on the plains of Manassas
adds to the sacredness of this valu-
able relic. The Shea andoah Chapter
U. D. C. will continue to guard and
care for it.
Sudden Death OF kObt S. Rinker.
Mr.. Robert s. Rinker passed Mr..
Shutters residence last Thursday
morning, speaking to Mr.. Shutters