Civil War battle flags.

[Nounan]

So does anyone know where the best place to see pictures of certain regimental battle flags would be? i have spent countless hours on google, pinterest etc.
looking for; 9th West Virginia Infantry,
122nd Ohio Volunteer infantry,
3rd West Virginia Cavalry
12th West Virginia Infantry
8th Virginia Cavalry
3rd West Virginia Infantry
6th West Virginia cavalry.

 

[Cavalry Charger]

I'm sure there are others here who could offer what you are looking for more readily, but I recently visited the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and they have a plethora of Virginia regimental battle flags in their collection. The website gives you options to search various flags, but unfortunately not by regiment from what I can see. You need to click into them individually to see which regiment they belonged to. And many are unidentified.

Here is a link, if you are interested to investigate:

http://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/search?page=12&search_criteria=flags&utf8=✓

 

[HarlechMan]

Generally I've found that few states have flags posted online – the northern state battle flags are in the care of a government body, such as Pennsylvania's Capitol Preservation Committee. Ohio has posted all or most of their battle flags online, and you can view the 122nd Ohio's here.
For West Virginia, you could contact West Virginia Independence Hall, which has an exhibit of selected battle flags. This is allegedly the flag of the 8th Virginia Cavalry, and a flag for the regiment's Company A is shown here.

 

[AUG]

Here's the Regimental (or State) Colors of the 12th West Virginia Infantry.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388576274072255741

From the First Biennial Report of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, by Virgil A. Lewis, M.A., State Historian and Archivist, 1906:

Twelfth Regiment West Virginia Voluntary Infantry:--In the Department there is but one flag - a State Flag - of this regiment. A dark red scroll beneath the Coat-of-Arms bears the legend: "2th (error "12th") Regiment West Virginia Infantry." At the top, in two horizontal lines in gilt letters one inch in height, is "Winchester, Va., June 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1863; New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864." To the left is "Piedmont, Va., June 5th, 1864." To the right is "Lynchburg, Va., June 17th and 18th, 1864." Below all, in two horizontal lines, "Snicker's Ford, Va., July 18th, 1864; Kernstown, Va., July 24th 1864; Berryville, Va., Sept. 3d, 1864; Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864." The flag is split in the center and has rents in lower left hand corner. Observe it is in good condition -- yellow fringe and cord and tassels remain.​

Also, here is the gilded brass eagle flagstaff ornament presented to the 12th West Virginia by Gen. John Gibbon following the capture of Fort Gregg at Petersburg. The 12th played a major role in the final assault on and capture of the fort; their flag wasn't the first to reach it though, as the following description claims.

http://www.wvculture.org/museum/exhibits/wv150/1860wv150.html

 

[mofederal]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/artimovich/8486971057/in/photostream/

I guess the Virginia Historical Museum in Richmond was called Battle Abbey when I lived around there. It had a massive collection of Virginia Battle flags, as well as uniforms of Jeb Stuart and other famous generals. It was also the home of the Seasons of the Confederacy paintings. Are the flags still in Battle Abbey and the uniforms.

 

[mofederal]

Virginia Historical Society Museum and the Battle Abbey.

 

[Curtis Ancestor]

Here's the Regimental (or State) Colors of the 12th West Virginia Infantry.

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388576274072255741/

From the First Biennial Report of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, by Virgil A. Lewis, M.A., State Historian and Archivist, 1906:

Twelfth Regiment West Virginia Voluntary Infantry:--In the Department there is but one flag - a State Flag - of this regiment. A dark red scroll beneath the Coat-of-Arms bears the legend: "2th (error "12th") Regiment West Virginia Infantry." At the top, in two horizontal lines in gilt letters one inch in height, is "Winchester, Va., June 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1863; New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864." To the left is "Piedmont, Va., June 5th, 1864." To the right is "Lynchburg, Va., June 17th and 18th, 1864." Below all, in two horizontal lines, "Snicker's Ford, Va., July 18th, 1864; Kernstown, Va., July 24th 1864; Berryville, Va., Sept. 3d, 1864; Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864." The flag is split in the center and has rents in lower left hand corner. Observe it is in good condition -- yellow fringe and cord and tassels remain.​

Also, here is the gilded brass eagle flagstaff ornament presented to the 12th West Virginia by Gen. John Gibbon following the capture of Fort Gregg at Petersburg. The 12th played a major role in the final assault on and capture of the fort; their flag wasn't the first to reach it though, as the following description claims.

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http://www.wvculture.org/museum/exhibits/wv150/1860wv150.html

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A huge "THANK YOU" for your post. Col William B. Curtis (later general) was my Great Great Grandfather and commanded this regiment. I'm always looking for information about him and the Curtis family.

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

West Virginia Civil War Flags

West Virginia Civil War Battle Flags | C-SPAN Classroom

www.c-span.org

 

[Dave D]

A flag of the 8th Virginia Cavalry is held in the archive at the American Civil War Museum (formerly, the Museum of the Confederacy).

Link : https://acwm.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/5C4A3923-E61F-4E0F-A0BE-611030441445