Richmond Daily Dispatch November 18, 1863 The flags captured at Rappahannock Station.
--The Confederate flags captured at the fight at Rappahannock Station, on the 7th inst., were formally presented to Gen. Meade, on the 11th. A correspondent of the New York Herald gives this account of the ceremony:

The flags were all alike — stars on a blue cross and red ground. The 8th Louisiana flag, inscribed with the words, "Winchester," "Manassas," &c., was captured by Sergeant Roberts, of the 6th Maine; a second by Capt. Shackleford, of company A, 5th Maine; a third by Lieut A. S. Lyon, of company K, 5th Maine; a fourth by private Philip Smith of the 121st New York; a fifth by private Silas Waterman, of the 121st New York; a sixth by James H. Littlefield, of company I, 5th Maine, inscribed with the names of "Cedar Run," and "Manassas" "Second Harper's Ferry," "Sharpsburg," "Winchester," "Chancellorsville," "Fredericksburg," "Gettysburg;" the seventh by Corporal E. P. Blondil, of company D, 5th Maine, inscribed "Manassas," "Seven Pines, " "Gaines's Farm," "Malvern Hill," "Ethain's Landing."--The eighth was a bare pole, the color-bearer having torn up the flag before it was taken.

NOTE: Only included reference to flags and capture. Took out 4 paragrapsh of general info.