Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

Virginia flags.

First Virginia Infantry, captured by the 82d New York at Gettysburg.

Third Virginia Infantry, captured at Gettysburg.

Fourth Virginia Infantry, taken at the Wilderness, May 12, 1864. [197]

Second Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade, Early's Corps, thirteen battles inscribed on it; captured at Winchester, September 19, 1864, by the 37th Massachusetts Infantry.

Third Virginia Cavalry, captured near Front Royal, August 16, 1864, by Sergeant H. J. Murray, Company B, 4th New York Cavalry, and Private Frank Leslie, Company B, same regiment.

Seventh Virginia Infantry, captured by the 82d New York at Gettysburg.

Battle flag of the 8th Virginia Volunteers, time and place of capture not given.

Tenth Virginia Volunteers, captured at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, by the 68th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Confederate flag, stars and bars, 12th Virginia, captured in cavalry engagement near Beverley Ford, June, 1863, by General Judson Kilpatrick, U. S. A.

Ninth Virginia Infantry, captured July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, by Private John E. Clopp, Company F, 71st Pennsylvania.

Ninth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's creek, April 6, 1865, by Corporal J. F. Benjamin, Company M (Harris), Volunteer Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, Major-General Custer commanding.

Sixth Virginia Infantry, captured July 30, 1864, by Corporal Franklin Hogan, Company A, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Twelfth Virginia Infantry, captured in the battle of Sailor's creek, April 6, 1865, by First Lieutenant James H. Gibbon, Company C, 2d New York (Harris Light) Volunteer Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Division.

Fifth Virginia Cavalry, captured at Aldie, Va., June 17, 1863, by 1st Massachusetts Cavalry.

Eighteenth Virginia Volunteers, time and place of capture not given.

Twenty-fifth Virginia Volunteers, time and place of capture not given.

Fourteenth Virginia Regiment, captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by Sergeant H. A. Delavie, Company I, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 3d Division, 5th Army Corps.

Fourteenth Virginia, State flag, captured at Nineveh, Va., November 12, 1864, by Private J. F. Adams, ‘First Virginia Cavalry;’ on one side are the words, ‘God Armeth the Patriot,’ and on the other, ‘Virginia State Arms.’

Thirty-second Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, captured by Private [198] Edward Handford, Company H, 2d United States Cavalry, near Woodstock. October 9, 1864.

Eighteenth Virginia Infantry, captured by Second Lieutenant C. E. Hunt, 59th New York Volunteers, place and time of capture not given.

Eighteenth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's creek, April 6, 1865, by Sergeant Ives S. Calking, Company M, 2d New York (Harris Light) Cavalry, Custer's Division.

Twenty-sixth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's creek, by Coran D. Evans, Company A, 3d Indiana Cavalry.

Twenty-fifth Battalion Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's creek, by Private Frank Miller, Company M, 2d New York Cavalry.

Twenty-seventh Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's creek, by Private W. F. Holmes, Company A, 3d Indiana Veteran Cavalry.

Thirtieth Virginia, captured by Private George J. Shapp, Com-E, 191st Pennsylvania Volunteers, who, while on the skirmish line, saw the enemy rally a line of battle on the colors, and sprang forward, accompanied by a dismounted cavalryman, and demanded the surrender of the colors. A Confederate officer called to his men to shoot the two Yankees, and the cavalryman was shot dead. Shapp then shot the officer and seized the colors. The bearer, when the skirmish line charged on the line of battle, fled. The place and time of this occurrence is not given.

Thirty-sixth Virginia Volunteers, captured September 19, 1864, near Winchester, by Patrick Enroe, private Company D, 6th New York Cavalry, Second Brigade, First Cavalry Division.

Thirty-eighth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's Creek, by Captain John B. Hughey, Company L, 2d Ohio Volunteers, Third Cavalry Division.

Fortieth Virginia Infantry, captured at Sailor's Creek, by First Sergeant W. P. Morris, Company C, First New York Lincoln Cavalry Volunteers.

Thirty-eighth Virginia Regiment, captured at Gettysburg, by Company G, 8th Ohio Volunteers, Sergeant Daniel Miller.

Fortieth Virginia Infantry, ‘Southern Cross,’ captured by the 1st Michigan Cavalry, at Falling Waters, Md., May 12, 1864.

Forty-second Virginia Infantry, captured May 12, 1864, by Corporal Charles L. Russell, Company H, 93d New York Volunteers; place not given. [199]

Forty-first Virginia Infantry, Weisiger's Brigade, Mahone's Division; time and place of capture not given.

Battle flag of the 56th Virginia Infantry.

Fifty-sixth Virginia Infantry, captured May 12, 1864, by Private C. W. Wilson, Company E, Fourth Excelsior Regiment, Birney's Division, Second Army Corps.

Sixty-seventh Virginia Infantry, captured by Private B. H. Tillison, 19th Massachusetts.

Forty-fourth Virginia Volunteers, captured at the Wilderness, May 12, 1864, by Sergeant Albert March, Company B, 64th New York Volunteers.

Fifty-fifth Virginia Regiment, captured May 6, 1864, by Sergeant W. P. Townsend, Company G, 20th Indiana.

Forty-seventh Virginia Volunteers, captured by 50th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, place and time not given.

Fiftieth Virginia Regiment, captured at the Wilderness by Private John Opel, Company G, 7th Indiana Volunteers.

Virginia State flag, captured June 3, 1864, in the Wilderness, by Corporal Terence Bigley, Company D, 7th New York Artillery.

Stars and Bars of Flatrock Rifles, Lunenburg county, Va., time and place of capture not given.

Virginia State flag, captured at the battle of Philippi, Va., June 3, 1861, by the 14th Ohio Volunteers, inscribed: ‘Presented by the ladies of Bath, Va.; God protect the right.’

Virginia State colors, place and time of capture not given, nor is the name of the organization from which the flag was taken.

Virginia cavalry standard, taken in charge at the Wilderness, by Private Samuel Coskey, Company I, 1st Cavalry.

Virginia State colors, captured at Sailors' Creek, by Corporal Ernine C. Payne, 2d New York (Harris) Volunteer Cavalry.

Battle flag, Virginia State colors, captured at Farm's Cross Roads, April 5, 1865, by Henry C. Wasfel, Company A, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Confederate flag, Virginia, inscribed: ‘Our cause is just, our rights we will maintain.’ Time and place of capture not given, nor is the name of the organization from which the flag was taken.

Virginia State flag, captured September 19, 1864, near Winchester, by Private George Reynolds, Company M, 9th New York Cavalry. Name of command which lost the flag is not given.

Virginia State flag, presented Lieutenant E. D. Wheeler, 1st Artillery, November, 1875. No other facts given. [200]

Forty-eighth Virginia Infantry, captured in the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, by Lieutenant-Colonel Albert M. Edwards, 24th Michigan Volunteers.