In the New Jersey State Library in Trenton is a booklet, Fourth Annual Pilgrimage of the Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Veterans Association, May 11-15, 1909, Fredericksburg, Washington and Gettysburg. A. W. Whitehead made the following speech while on the Virginia battlefield where they fought on 12 May 1864: "Forty-five years ago this very day-Thursday, May 12, 1864-two great American armies were contending on this bloody field ... the Fourteenth Georgia [were] our opponents that day. Now it so happened, through the fortunes of war and not through any fault of the men who composed that regiment (for no braver soldiers ever faced an enemy), the flag which you loved fell into our hands ... We respect a good soldier, no matter what flag he fought under, and to prove that we can forgive and forget, I have the honor to represent the survivors of the Fifteenth New Jersey Regiment, in returning to your command the flag which you so nobly defended in 1864." The booklet states that "It had been expected that representatives of that regiment would be present to receive it, but for some reason which has not been disclosed up to this time, no one appeared. The battle-scarred emblem was, however, taken by Lieutenant-Governor Ellyson who promised to forward it to the members of the Fourteenth Georgia Regiment at a reunion of veterans to be held during the following month."