Captured Confederate Flag 1862 query

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The left half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph showing the background at left

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/287.jpg

The right half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/286.jpg

Has the Unit that carried the CS Flag in foreground ever been identified?

 

[History hoarder63]

The left half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph showing the background at left

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/287.jpg

The right half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/286.jpg

Has the Unit that carried the CS Flag in foreground ever been identified?

There were not a lot of flags captured during the Antietam campaign. The one in McClellan's tent could be #1 on the plate below which supposedly shows some of the flags captured at Antietam. Possible candidates who bore the flag are the Texas Brigade, or an unnamed South Carolina Regiment. The captured Flag of Cobb's Legion was a Stars and Bars (1st National) and the Alabama flag captured at Sunken Road was a 3rd National with the large white field.

 

[R. Porter]

Were there other captured flags numbered 9 through 19?

 

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1) 5th Alabama--111th Pa (Chancellorsville)(May 3rd, 1863)
4) 11th Alabama--57th New York (Sharpsburg)
7) 16th Alabama--104th Ohio (Franklin)
11) 38th Alabama---27th Indiana (Resaca) May 15th, 1864.
8) 18th Alabama---13th Illinois (Missionary Ridge)
20) 2nd Florida? Nothing follows.

CSA flags returned by the War Department

The Flags of the Confederate Armies Returned to the Men Who Bore Them By the United States Government, 1905 : Herbert Booker : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Thew flags of the armies of the Confederacy captured and then returned to the soldiers who carried them into battle.

archive.org

In regard to missouri flag captured by 97th OVI

Re:2nd & 6th Consolidated MO Inf. Flag

 

[R. Porter]

Wait, I see 11; there are a bunch of missing numbers? How many flags were captured? Were there numbered things that weren't flags?

 

[History hoarder63]

The left half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph showing the background at left

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/287.jpg

The right half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/286.jpg

Has the Unit that carried the CS Flag in foreground ever been identified?

MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, November 12, 1862, p. 4, c. 3

Honored Flags in Federal Hands.�A correspondent of the Northern journals, who paid a visit to McClellan, was shown the Confederate flags captured in Maryland. We copy the following from the review which he gives of the most interesting of the collection:

"We are first shown the battle flag of the rebels, which General McClellan informed us had been generally adopted by them, in lieu of the regular Confederate or national rebel flag, which was the only one carried in the earlier period of the war.�It was about four feet square, red ground with blue stripes about four inches wide, running diagonally across, or from corner to corner. On these stripes are twelve white stars, representing the twelve States claimed by the rebels as belonging to their Confederacy. It was very badly torn and blood-stained. From a written paper sewed on it, I learned that it had been the battleflag of the 11th Alabama regiment, captured by the 57th New York Volunteers, Richardson's division, Sumner's corps, at the battle of Antietam, September 17th, 1862.

Hat tip to Richard H. Holloway who originally posted this source in 2007.

 

[History hoarder63]

The left half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph showing the background at left

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/287.jpg

The right half of the Lincoln/McClellan photograph

https://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/286.jpg

Has the Unit that carried the CS Flag in foreground ever been identified?

Colonel Scott's list of flags in the War Department in 1886 seems to only list five that were captured at Antietam.

 

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1) 5th Alabama--111th Pa (Chancellorsville)(May 3rd, 1863)
4) 11th Alabama--57th New York (Sharpsburg)
7) 16th Alabama--104th Ohio (Franklin)
11) 38th Alabama---27th Indiana (Resaca) May 15th, 1864.
8) 18th Alabama---13th Illinois (Missionary Ridge)
20) 2nd Florida? Nothing follows.

CSA flags returned by the War Department

The Flags of the Confederate Armies Returned to the Men Who Bore Them By the United States Government, 1905 : Herbert Booker : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Thew flags of the armies of the Confederacy captured and then returned to the soldiers who carried them into battle.

archive.org

In regard to missouri flag captured by 97th OVI

Re:2nd & 6th Consolidated MO Inf. Flag

related link on captured Alabama flags

List of Battle Flags Returned to Alabama in 1905

 

[RaggedAssSecond]

@on again here is an old thread on the same subject.

Captured Confederate Flag in McClellan's Tent ?? | Antietam / Sharpsburg

Ok, this has always driven me a little crazy. What began as a " Wonder which one... " became obfuscated by all the noise out there, when you try to do a search? If anyone knows, you do- which flag does McClellan have in his tent, the day he and Lincoln were photographed in his tent? You know the...

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