"Told by George RHODES
2nd Regiment, Company G.
"After BOYKIN was shot I picked up the flag and turned to hand it to the flag
Sergeant, New't JONES." He said, "You carry it George, I can't. I'm Captain,
Lieutenant and Sergeant. All the rest are gone." I kept the flag.
General COX rode up behind me and said, "RHODES, never stop until you stick
that flag on the battery now firing at us."
"I got to the battery after a while with the flag. I was leaning on one of
the pieces with the flag in my hand when I was shot here," he said, baring
his right wrist and showing a terrible scar. "But before I got to the battery
I captured a U. S. flag. General COX rode up and asked for it. As he rode off
with it the Yankees turned the batteries on him. This was a brave and daring
deed of General COX, and it saved some of our men that day. When we got to
the battery they had spiked three guns. We captured the other three and turned
them on the Yankees. New't JONES took our flag after I was shot, and finding
that he was about to be captured he tore the flag from the staff, concealed
it in his bosom, and jumping into Cedar Creek, he got to the other side and
escaped capture."
Ed