In Confederate Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia Division, UDC, vol. III (1999) p. 219, Cullen Sherrard Saunders Horne writes about the final days of the Confederacy at Petersburg, where he was assigned with Major M. Ross [presumably Hugh M. Ross] in Colonel [John] Lane's artillery battalion. [My notes indicate Horne had been a private in Company A, 12th Georgia before becoming a Sergeant and then Sergeant Major of Company B, 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion, which I believe is also known as the Sumter Battalion.] Horne writes that during the retreat, "Col. Lane ordered me to the front and ordered some of the boys of Winkfield's [John T. Wingfield?] Co. to get the Battalion Flag--cut a staff and bring it to the front. In the meantime I had reported to Col. Lane at the front. He took the Flag and Staff and, handing it to me, made a little speech which was all a surprise and most confusing to me. The Flag and Staff (which was a little knotty scrub) were both bothersome to me all the time ..." [I suppose Lane was honoring Horne by presenting him with the battalion's flag, and perhaps Horne was just being modest about the honor. I don't have the rest of the letter which might shed light on what became of the flag.]