George & Mitchell,

This new info seems to confirm that Holcombe was
in the 2nd infantry. I had suspected as much. The article states that the flag was carried at Manassas, Gettysburg
and Seven Pines.
Holcombe was attending a Reunion at Fort Smith, Ark.
in 1892 when he carried the flag in a parade.
The pertinent paragraphs of the article follows;
"Several old Confederate flags were carried in the procession, torn and tattered by bullet, shot and shell.
G. P. Holcomb, Paris, Texas, had the flag of the 2nd Mississippi. It was in the battles of Manassas, Gettysburg, and Seven Pines. John Hill Camp had a flag which was all through the war. Stonewall Jackson Camp had a Federal flag captured at Fredericksburg, Va. by Pickett's Division.
Camp John Wallace, of Van Buren, had the old flag of the 22nd Regiment (Wallace's); it was with the Van Buren and Ft. Smith boys at Oak Hills, Elk Horn, Prairie Grove, Helena and Jenkins Ferry. It was carried in the parade by Joe Clegg, who owns it. Camp Wallace had another flag in the parade, the property of H. A. Meyer. It was the flag of the 1st Texas Artillery, of which he was a member. There were many other historic flags of which we did not get the records, and as many an old Vet wept when he gazed upon the tattered banners he had loved so well and followed so faithfully through the long and bloody war."

The complete article appears in the Van Buren Argus of
October 5, 1892.