Ken
Don't know what flag the article references. Records indicated that Mrs. Arthur Cummings of Abingdon on 18 May 1861 presented Greever's company, the Smyth Rifle Grays, with a flag made from the silk of her wedding dress. I have seen a picture of the flag in a reference work, but can't right now dredge up the reference. I can't imagine that this company banner was carried throughout the war given the relatively good condition it was in in the postwar picture I saw of it in the reference work. What flags the 48th Virginia had before Greever left the regiment in April 1862 is something I do not know, but again, I cannot imagine that Greever was able to secure a 48th Va. flag to bring home to his family. His service with Capt. William King's light artillery company is pretty thin, based on his CSR in the NA. It shows him enlisting as a Sgt on 1 May 64 at Saltville, but absent on guard, never paid, on 31 December 1864. But he was listed as one of the voters in King's Saltville artillery on 23 March 1865 who voted for members of the Board of Public Works, 1st District of Va. In any case, as a sergeant in King's artillery he was not in the best position to obtain a flag and even if he did, given his late war enlistment, and limited service of King's artillery, it would not have qualified as one he carried throughout the war.