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Re: 14th Va Infantry Regt Flags?

Ken,
.. Went back and looked up flag WD#82 in the Returned Battle Flag book listing. IT had an additional note in the reprint that it was the flag of the 53rd Va. Based upon Barrett's post that only the 53rd recieved the Longstreet's Seven Pines battle credit. That would tend to give credibility that its most likely that of the 53rd and not that of the 14th.

Barrett,
... I have also been chasing that mystery of what flags Picketts troops recieved as replacements. Curiosity if they again recieved flags with only the unit ID as they got just before Gettysburg or something else... Noting that many of the units that had the Richmond Depot Montague battle credits on them that were lost at Gettysburg.. Noted many of these recieved new ones also so marked the same fashion.. near identical to those lost... just adding in a few more engagements including that of Gettysburg... However thus far I have not personally found any of the Pickett style marked flags that are contributed to have been a replacement.

The 9th Va (Armistead Brig) lost theirs at Gettysburg, then lost another at Saylors Creek. That later flag (if memory serves correctly is also a 3rd bunting) was not of the Pickett style markings but it did have a crude "9 Va" in the lower quadrant that appears to have been painted after recieved in the field most likely. Yet not found on any of the others. Thus the observation that it didnt appear that the Pickett units recieved replacements of their same earlier marked type.

This is where this mystery of the 14th flag takes one of its many twists.. The 14th flag lost at Five Forks (WD#274).. was of the Pickett style marked flag... same as they recieved in May-Jun 63... thus the pondering question if this was a replacement.. if so why didnt any of the other Armistead regiments get a replacement one just like it too... or was this the original earlier flag that might have actually escaped capture at Gettysburg... hmmm ... Seems unlikely.. but since the flag reported to be captured at Gettysburg is missing.. questionable accounts of it actually being captured... never logged by the WD.. or anyone else.. kinda makes one wonder about that... Just a pondering observation...

As mentioned previous it is listed in many of the Federal battle reports and captured flag listing that Joseph Decastro of the 19th Mass captured the flag of the 14th Va.... Puzzled that all the others the 19th Mass obtained were turned in as ordered... yet the 14th Flag was oddly missing.. and not in the WD listings of flags... yet I found later references including later corrections to Decastros MOH citation that the flag he captured was actually that of the 19th Va... Found other accounts that he had gotten separated from his unit and in the urgency of the moment just fell in and followed other troops into the fray.. and that his captured occured further down the line from where the rest of the 19th Mass was fighting.. which had snagged up Armisteads flags... There are found many inaccuracies in those early reports.. Same as the 7th Ohio is also listed in the OR's as claiming to have captured the flag of the 14th Va... which also was later corrected to reflect that it was the flag of the 4th Va.. not that of the 14th Va... Having to research and trace multiple records of each fragment of the puzzle trying to find further confirmation, credibility, or questionable lack thereof... for many of the single accounts found.. have equally found others that differ or counter the previous claim.. whewww...

Frederick

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